As indicated by the outline, or the basis of thought, as well
as the meditation and the questions that each should ask
themselves, the group, the individuals, have reached then
that place in their study, their work, where - as it were -
they are, as individuals, to apply that in their experience,
in giving out to others in the lessons that are being and are
to be prepared, that they have experienced in preparing
themselves for the various channels of blessings each are to
be in the service as of furnishing data in lessons for
others. Much in this manner:
Why has the way of the Cross been chosen by the group?
Why is it necessary that each must bear a cross? Just
because the cross was borne for us by another?
Why was it necessary that He, the maker of heaven and earth,
bear a cross as a man?
Why did He come into the world as a man, that He might as a
man bear a cross?
Why do we as individuals necessarily bear much that He did,
yet we say taking His yoke upon us the cross becomes easy?
These and similar questions must be answered by each
individual, and give in their own hearts an answer that will
satisfy them in the light of that which has been their
experience through the living of the lessons that have been
given to others.
Does the life, do the lives, lived in accordance with thine
own faith, thine own virtue and understanding, thine own
walking in the Presence, make for the explanation of why each
soul must bear a cross?
Why has the Cross been chosen, rather than many of the other
philosophies of thought that make for a unison of conditions
in the experience - and make for the correlation of the
material and spiritual life?
Why is the Cross the emblem of shame yet necessary, for the
Crown that is to be in the experience of those that bear
same? For we have reached that place in the experience where
WE, as individuals, will walk no more with this thought or
else say as Peter, "Thou alone hast the words of eternal
life, to whom shall we go?"
These, then, are the questions that each individual should
ask SELF, and put into the lesson; as: "Why I as a soul, in
the development through this material plane, must bear a
cross."
Then, when this portion has been received by selves, and the
answer written, we may give "Why the Crown."
We are through for the present.
BACKGROUND
