The Will-To-Good Group

- a virtual organization -

March 2004 Quotes:

"Let me state here, briefly and succinctly, what it would appear really transpired when Christ died upon the cross.  He rendered up the form aspect and identified Himself as Man with the life aspect of Deity.  He thereby liberated us from the form side of life, of religion, and of matter, and demonstrated to us the possibility of being in the world and yet not of the world (John 17:16), living as souls, released from the trammels and limitations of the flesh, while yet walking on earth.  To the very depths of its being humanity is tired of death.  Its only rest lies in the belief that the ultimate victory is over death, and that some day death will be abolished...it may be said that the race is so imbued with the thought of death that it has been the line of least resistance for theology to emphasize the death of Christ, and to omit to lay the major emphasis upon the renewal of life to which that death was the prelude.  This practice will end because today the world demands a living Christ rather than a dead Saviour."

- From Bethlehem to Calvary, p 198-199,  by Alice A. Bailey

"In view, therefore, of this emphasis upon human sinfulness, and as a result of the age-old habit of offering sacrifice to God, the true mission of Christ was long ignored.  Instead of His being recognized as embodying in Himself an eternal hope for the race, He was incorporated into the ancient system of sacrifices, and the ancient habits of thought were to strong for the new idea which He came to give.  Sin and sacrifice ousted and supplanted the love and service which He sought to bring to our attention through His life and His words.  That is also why, from the psychological angle, Christianity has produced such sad, weary, and sin-conscious men.  Christ, the sacrifice for sin, and the Cross of Christ as the instrument of His death have absorbed men's attention, whilst Christ the perfect man and Christ the Son of God have been less emphasized.  The cosmic significance of the cross has been entirely forgotten (or never known) in the West.

Salvation is not primarily connected with sin.  Sin is a symptom of a condition, and when a man is 'truly saved' that condition is offset, and with it the incidental sinful nature.  It was this Christ came to do - to show us the nature of the 'saved' life; to demonstrate to us the quality of the eternal Self which is in every man; this is the lesson of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection:  the lower nature must die in order that the higher may be manifested, and the eternal immortal soul in every man must rise from the tomb of matter."

- From Bethlehem to Calvary, p 187,  by Alice A. Bailey

"To hate, to be separate, and to be exclusive will come to be regarded as the only sin, for it will be recognized that all the sins - as listed and now regarded as wrong - only stem from hate or from its product, the anti-social consciousness.  Hate and its dependent consequences are the true sin against the Holy Ghost, about which commentators have so long debated, overlooking (in their silliness) the simplicity and the appropriateness of the true definition." 

- The Reappearance of The Christ p 112, by Alice A. Bailey