What is the full power of God?

As you path through connecting shafts to the Christ-sphere, your general impression is that of brightness, almost dazzling―

The air scintillates like diamonds―it almost crackles, it is so full of electricity―your feet do not have a very firm grip of the ground. 

There are bands and processions of people, white-robed, all going in one direction. They move with uplifted faces, singing beautiful music. 

You join the rear of one group and are almost swept along on a tide of intense feeling. 

You come to a building without any walls. It consists of a roof, which seems to be composed of interwoven rays of light of different colours, supported by pillars, which look as if they are made of mother-of-pearl. 

There are crowds of people all round, and raised above all others stands one glowing, radiant figure. 

You know at once it is the Christ, and instinctively fall on your knees, though He is not like any picture you have ever seen. 

You are so conscious of Him that you feel as if He is bending over you. His eyes seem to penetrate you and produce a wonderful glow. 

You feel uplifted in a culminating thrill of ecstasy. 

He is speaking, but you cannot hear the words. All the events of your life have been leading up to this. 

As you kneel there, many events of your life pass in review through your mind. 

You can visualise them as pictures. Your memory seems stored with records, not alone of the life you have just left, but of others in the faraway past, and as the various scenes present themselves, you seem to realise the different lessons you have learned through these experiences and know that all the events of your life have been leading up to this. 

I believe that Christ is a great and wonderful personality―a great Spirit in the form of a man as near as possible to God because the Godforce plays so strongly in and through Him―a fit instrument and receiver of that Power. 

Christ was the instrument and child of God. There was a specific reason why Christ was sent. God specially directed Him―the consciousness of God within Him was very acute. He knew He was the instrument and child of God. 

Christ was sent to be man's example for all time. 

He was sent to be man's example for all time―to teach how pure and holy and simple and dignified and useful and beautiful life could be without any of the material aids of money or social position, and to prove the individual continuity of life after death. 

But He did not come to save men from the results of their sins. It is a comfortable theory, but not true. Every man has to earn his own salvation. 

Here you learn that you alone have to earn your own salvation. Sin is a breaking of God's Laws and carries its own inviolable consequences, which must be worked out by each individual personally. 

You might as well set the law of gravity in motion and expect it not to act. 

Christ's followers claimed His death as a sacrifice for sin, for they naturally looked upon God, only as the people of their day knew Him, that is, as a tyrannical Jehovah whose altars ran with the blood of sacrificed animals. 

A spiritual truth that is infinitely greater and more wonderful than anything ever yet told. 

As you evolve, you get nearer spiritual truth, and you know here that this is infinitely greater and more wonderful than anything ever yet told. 

One realises the presentation of God usually taught on earth is utterly incorrect. He is not a glorified mortal sitting on a golden throne, not a vengeful or jealous God, not in a way even a personal God to be propitiated to grant special gifts to a favoured few. He is not finite, but Infinite, but because it is so difficult to realise so vast a fact, we feel on earth we want to locate and limit our idea of God to bring it within our understanding. 

God is everywhere and in everything—in the trees, flowers, air and sunshine. God is All-good, All-beauty, All-purity. God fills all space. God is not limited, nor existing only in the seven spheres. He is also in the space beyond, for He fills all space. 

The whole Universe is God. The whole Universe is of God―the planets revolve from the power of God within them, touched and supported by power without.

God is creative―from Him all life springs. Elemental man is a manifestation of Godpower through form, which, in the lower creation, is manifest in a different way, though he can deteriorate to less than they. 

All life is a bit of God.  All life, as projected into human bodies, is therefore a bit of God, and you are in consequence truly His child, and by that fact immortal. 

God works automatically. Those who live harmoniously with His Laws can draw great power―they find, too, that soul satisfaction, which brings the peace that passes all understanding. 

I do not only know this, but feel actually conscious of it—

If you are a ray of the sun, you cannot mistake yourself for a tallow candle. This is why it is untrue and incorrect to teach that we are miserable sinners by birth. 

The body is not you―your spirit is of God. However ignorant of the fact you may be, your soul, away in its dim consciousness, knows this and often in an emergency the spark divine asserts itself and you rise to the great occasion. 

God's laws are so steady, so regular, so businesslike, they can operate to great advantage in commercialism or organisation of any kind on earth, provided these things are brought into line with them. 

―Claude in Spirit