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Jesus, although forced by the conventions of the time in which he taught to
conform to the laws laid down by the scribes and Pharisees, influenced by
the strict views of the Israelites, who honored the law laid down by Moses
and the prophets, still possessed cosmic consciousness to such an extent
that he knew the folly of judging others by outward appearance, and also
of promising them cosmic consciousness in return for obedience to
prescribed rules or commandments.
When it would seem to his critics that he did not sufficiently emphasize
the traditional laws, that he was seemingly making it too simple and too
easy for people to live, they sought to trap him into a statement that
would oppose the accepted commandments.
But this Jesus steadfastly refused to do. "I came not to destroy the law,
but to fulfill it," he said.
Like all those who have experienced cosmic consciousness, his policy was
one of construction, and not of destruction. Evolution accomplishes
peacefully what revolution seeks to do by force.
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