CHAPTER XXIII 



CHRIST. 



Having dealt with life and the gods in general, 

 and in consequence we find it not inappropriate to say 

 a few words regarding the great exponent of the Chris- 

 tian teachings. 



In passing judgment on the man Christ, we have 

 to transport ourselves to the conditions that existed 

 during his time, in order that we may not do the man 

 an injustice. We must strike from consideration judg- 

 ment conforming with the period in which we live, 

 and act solely upon the evidence derived from authen- 

 tic history as revealed to us today. Otherwise we 

 would be judging him in the face of the enlightenment 

 of the world during intermediate centuries. And the 

 judgment would be in that case unjust. It will be 

 equally necessary to consider the conditions that next 

 preceded the conditions that brought into being a 

 man of Christ's order. He having to develop with the 

 conditions that made him in the true order of nature's 

 law. Nature's law being, man develop to the condi- 

 tions. Not conditions develop to the man. When we 

 have grasped the conditions that next preceded Christ, 

 and then collaborate the pre-existing conditions with 

 the conditions in which he lived, then we shall know 

 the man as if he lived with us today. Know him as 



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