17:12 For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. /For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All./ CHAPTER II - ATONEMENT AND EUCHARIST And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. - PAUL. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel. - PAUL. For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. - JESUS. Divine oneness 18:1 ATONEMENT is the exemplification of man's unity with God, whereby man reflects divine Truth, Life, 18:3 and Love. Jesus of Nazareth taught and demonstrated man's oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him endless homage. His mission was both in- 18:6 dividual and collective. He did life's work aright not only in justice to himself, but in mercy to mortals,- to show them how to do theirs, but not to do 18:9 it for them nor to relieve them of a single responsibility. Jesus acted boldly, against the accredited evidence of the senses, against Pharisaical creeds and practices, and he 18:12 refuted all opponents with his healing power. Human reconciliation The atonement of Christ reconciles man to God, not God to man; for the divine Principle of Christ is God, 18:15 and how can God propitiate Himself? Christ is Truth, which reaches no higher than itself. The fountain can rise no higher than its source. Christ, 18:18 Truth, could conciliate no nature above his own, derived 19:1 from the eternal Love. It was therefore Christ's purpose to reconcile man to God, not God to man. Love and 19:3 Truth are not at war with God's image and likeness. Man cannot exceed divine Love, and so atone for him- self. Even Christ cannot reconcile Truth to error, for 19:6 Truth and error are irreconcilable. Jesus aided in recon- ciling man to God by giving man a truer sense of Love, the divine Principle of Jesus' teachings, and this truer 19:9 sense of Love redeems man from the law of matter, sin, and death by the law of Spirit,- the law of divine Love. 19:12 The Master forbore not to speak the whole truth, de- claring precisely what would destroy sickness, sin, and death, although his teaching set households at variance, 19:15 and brought to material beliefs not peace, but a sword. Efficacious repentance