“Now, who is Christ? There are some Christian religions who claim He is God. This is not so. For he himself has said, as you can find out from the Holy Scriptures, that he is not God. He is not the Father, the Creator. There are some who say Jesus was just a wise man like a few others history has known, a sage, a great teacher with great wisdom, but he is not more than a few others who have lived at other times in other countries. This is wrong too.

“I am telling you truth, my friends, whether you want to believe it now or not. Jesus, the man, was the incarnation of the Christ. And this spirit is the highest, the most exalted of all created beings. He is the first direct and inborn creation of God. His substance is the same as the substance of God. All of you have some of this substance, that which I call the higher self or the divine spark, that which has to come out through spiritual development gradually. But no other created being has this substance to quite the same degree as Christ. And there is the difference.” (PL #19)