As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so Jesus tells us must the son of man also be lifted up. By looking on and believing in this son we are saved. Jesus could not have been referring to his own personality, for he knew that this would soon be taken from the sight of humanity. We must look for a deeper meaning.n6601 ¶1
We must be lifted up, that is, we must realize our divine nature and relationship to the Truth of God. This relationship is one of complete unity. The cross represents the tree of life and may also be thought of as the tree of unity.n6601 ¶2
When Moses lifted the serpent those who looked upon it were healed. This means that as they understood the Life Principle to be spiritual and not material they were healed. This understanding produced a consciousness of unity which had healing power. The Life Principle is either looked upon as material or spiritual. When looked upon as material it casts us from the garden of Eden,— the garden of the soul. | The Life Principle viewed only as matter is death, but viewed as life and unity it becomes life everlasting. Moses elevated the Life Principle and Jesus did the same. The son of man must be lifted up even as Moses lifted up the Life Principle, symbolized by the serpentn6601 ¶3
The son’of man is every man who ever lived or ever will live. Our life is from spirit and not from matter. This viewpoint is the truth and truth alone makes free. We come into everlasting life as we elevate this inner principle to a sense of the unity of man with God, Each must lift himself up to the cross of the Tree of Life, thus unifying himself with reality. The concept is glorious and the reward certain. The revelation of the self to the self. This is the great lesson of lessons.n6601 ¶4
Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst,n6601 ¶5
But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.n6601 ¶6
The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.n6601 ¶7
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.n6601 ¶8
St. Joun—Four.n6601 ¶9