Is there any evidence that Jesus existed?

Where did Christ spend his life between his boyhood and the time he began to teach? 

He was in his mother's home all his boyhood and early manhood, following the occupation and life outwardly of a Jewish peasant, but his soul—or his real self was in perfect union and communion with the eternal wisdom whose manifestation he was.

Then he was not educated by the Essene brothers?

He was outwardly a man of no education, all that he gave to humanity he brought directly from the Father and the sect of whom you think knew nothing of him until long after.

Many think that Christ as a man never existed? Many think it better to worship him as a principle?

It is well to believe truth, even historic truth, and Jesus the man did live, but worship must never be given to the man, only to the God that he showed to mankind.

—Spirit Insight