Earthly Witness and Divine Witness

 

To receive Christ

is not accomplished through church membership,

nor by outer ritual

of acknowledging Jesus as one's savior

but never knowing Him in reality

by contacting Him in meditation.

 

To know Christ

signifies to close the eyes,

expand the consciousness

and so deepen the concentration

that through the inner light of soul intuition

one participates in the same consciousness

that Jesus had.

 

Saint John and other

advanced disciples of Jesus

who truly "received Him"

felt him as the Christ Consciousness

present in every speck of space.

 

A true Christian

--- a Christ-one ---

is he who frees his soul from the consiousness of the body

and unites it with the Christ intelligence

pervading all creation.

 

Paramahansa Yogananda -

"The Second Coming of Christ:

The Resurrection of the Christ Within You"