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the Christian symbology it is called the Christ stage, 

 that of Divine Sonship, and you will find in a great 

 prayer of Jesus, called the Christ, that in praying 

 for His disciples He asked that " they may be one in 

 me, "in union with each other and Himself. There is 

 a grander unity yet, the unity between the Son and 

 Father, a unity of nature not a union of the erst- 

 separated ; but before that unity can be reached, man 

 must have realised the union with his brother men, 

 must see humanity as united, and not as separate; 

 that is, he must have changed his centre of conscious- 

 ness that responds to the impacts from without 

 from the vehicles in which the intellect and the feel- 

 ings were developed to the life itself, which is one and 

 the same in all. No longer is he to think himself 

 as separate, inasmuch as the " I," the separated self, 

 is now to be transcended, is to be merged in the 

 uniting aspect of the Deity, the Vishnu or the 

 Christ. That is to be developed as the life of man, 

 with all its wonderful beauty and power, with its 

 unifying force. Therefore did Shri Krishna come 

 as an Avatara to this Eastern world to show forth 

 the life of L,ove ; for the life of A'nanda, or Bliss, is 

 ever the life of Love, and by L,ove alone may we 

 evolve it within ourselves. The aspect of God that 

 is Bliss shows itself as L/ove ; and in word and in 

 action, in simile and in parable, did the 



