Many books have been written on the life and work of the one known as Jesus Christ, usually from an historical, Biblical or academic standpoint - or a combination of these. This volume belongs in another context, being an entirely mystical portrayal of that life. In it we learn that the terms Jesus and Christ refer to no individual, but rather to states of consciousness, Jesus being the life of selfless love and Christ, the radiance which that life brings. All Souls in those estates may truly bear the names, which are impersonal, for that is what those Souls have become in consciousness.

The Masters mission was distinct and unique. To those who could hear, he spoke inner truths, often in parable and allegory, which awoke their spiritual memory. These truths were of the Soul, cosmic in their significance and greater than any ecclesiastical setting could express.

As well as finding Souls who could respond to his teaching, the Master was especially constituted to bear and change the dense, unspiritual conditions of the Planet through the mysterious process known as the Sin-offering.

Many familiar stories are reinterpreted here, taken out of their hitherto local and personal settings and re-presented as spiritual teaching. The Masters mission was from the Heavens, to be a pure manifestation of spiritual truth and motion. As such, his sayings, his actions and his whole life revealed the Divine world.

This book is an anthology of talks given to friends. The subject matter is wide in scope, and is concerned with the spiritual life and its recovery as a living power. All the themes are touched upon elsewhere in the many books produced by the author, some forty bound volumes and numerous booklets.

We learn that seemingly simple questions may lead to issues of great moment for the inner and outer life, for all that is true in the spiritual realms has its correspondence within the individual. It is within these realms that the individual must seek, by endeavouring to live the life of which the inner correspondence speaks. In each section of the book the reader is led step by step to deeper meanings as the inner significance of the particular theme is unfolded. Some of the themes are Biblical because this is the context in which they arose, but all are taken beyond those confines in a way which transcends and illumines them.

The chief sayings of the Master, known as Jesus Christ, are presented here in a new version. They will be of deep interest to seekers for spiritual truth. The author makes no claim to academic authority, nevertheless the book is a work of great scholarship. There are significant variations from traditional texts, all of them consistent with the book's purpose, which is to show that the Master's teaching revealed a way of life completely pure, imbued with compassion for all creation and full of the healing power of Divine Love. The sayings, however simple, are profound, because they speak of the eternal verities which have correspondences within every soul, of whatever race or creed.

There are many levels of truth to be gradually uncovered as the seeker pursues the path indicated, for a living truth can only be known in the degree to which it is embodied. It is thus that the seemingly outer stories as given are shown to be allegories symbolic of that which is universal and transcendent. Detailed notes accompanying the text help the reader to appreciate this. The book concludes with the re-interpreted text of the Apocalypse and with comprehensive indexes.

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