[London Lectures of 1907 by Annie Besant]@TWC D-Link bookLondon Lectures of 1907 PART I 58/96
He is not gone away, He has not ascended anywhere in the literal sense, but is permeating the whole of His Communion, and living upon earth until the last Christian has passed away to liberation, or is born into some other faith.
That is the inner meaning.
He lives and may be reached.
And if the teachings of the Theosophical Society have any value for the Christian Church, it is because they are bringing back to live in Christian hearts this living truth of the bodily ever-presence of the Christ amongst them. Theosophists who are Christians, and remain within the limits of the Christian Church, have gained a vivid view of this real humanity of Jesus.
They learn that He may be reached as truly now as when He walked near the sea of Galilee, or taught in the streets of Jerusalem, that they may know Him with as real a sense of His presence, may learn from Him as truly as any apostle or disciple in the past, that it is a living and real presence--not only, as the Roman Catholic Church says, in the Sacrament of the altar, but in the experience of the Christian heart.
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