2 The priests were in the sanctuary and as they looked the Oracle became a blaze of light; it seemed to be on fire, and all consumed. 3 The priests were filled with fear. They said, A great disaster is to come; our gods are mad; they have destroyed our Oracle. 4 But when the flames had spent themselves, a man stood on the orac pedestal and said; 5 God speaks to man, not by an oracle of wood and gold, but by the voice of man. 6 The gods have spoken to the Greeks, and kindred tongues, through images made by man; but God, the One, now speaks to man through Christ the only son, who was, and is and evermore will be. 7 This Oracle shall fail; the Living Oracle of God, the One, will never fail. 8 Apollo knew the man who spoke; he knew it was the Nazarene who once had taught the wise men in the Acropolis and had rebuked the idol worshippers upon the Athen’s beach; 9 And in a moment Jesus stood before Apollo and the Silent Brotherhood, and said, 10 Behold, for I have risen from the dead with gifts for men. I bring to you the title of your vast estate. 11 All power in heaven and earth is mine; to you I give all power in heaven and earth. 12 Go forth and teach the nations of the earth the gospel of the resurrection of the dead and of eternal life through Christ, the love of God made manifest to men. 13 And then he clasped Apollo’s hand and said, My human flesh was changed to higher form by love divine and I can manifest in flesh, or in the higher planes of life, at will. 14 What I can do all men can do. Go preach the gospel of the omnipotence of man. 15 Then Jesus disappeared; but Greece and Crete and all the nations heard. 16 Claudas and Juliet, his wife, lived on the Palatine in Rome and they were servants of Tiberius; but they had been in Galilee; 17 Had walked with Jesus by the sea, had heard his words and seen his power; and they believed that he was Christ made manifest. 18 Now Claudas and his wife were on the Tiber in a little boat; a storm swept from the sea, the boat was wrecked and Claudas and his wife were sinking down to death. 19 And Jesus came and took them by the hands and said, Claudas and Juliet, arise and walk with me upon the waves. 20 And they arose and walked with him upon the waves. 21 A thousand people saw the three walk on the waves, and saw them reach the land, and they were all amazed. 22 And Jesus said, You men of Rome, I am the resurrection and the life. They that are dead shall live, and many that shall live will never die. 23 By mouth of gods and demigods God spoke unto your fathers long ago; but now he speaks to you through perfect man. 24 He sent his son, the Christ, in human flesh, to save the world, and as I lifted from the watery grave and saved these servants of Tiberius, 25 So Christ will lift the sons and daughters of the human race, yea, every one of them, from darkness and from graves of carnal things, to light and everlasting life.