But the Masters of every living religion live on earth, and are the links, for the people of that religion, between God and man; the Master is the divine Man, one with his brothers, who look to him for help, one with the God around and above, and through Him the spiritual life is ever flowing.

The word "mediator," applied in the Christian scriptures to the Christ, signifies a real and living relation.

There are such mediators between God and man, and they are all God-men, true Christs.

Such links between the God without and the God within us are necessary for the helping by the one, and for the manifestation of the other.

The God within us, unfolding his powers, answers to the God without us, and the link is the God-man who shares the manifested nature of divinity, and yet remains one with His brethren in the flesh.