23 But we are masters of the things of time. Lo, we can speak, and all the spirits of the fire, water, earth and air will stand in our defense.
24 We can command and many legions of the angel world would come and strike our enemies to earth.
25 But it is best that not a power of heaven or earth should come to our relief. And it is best that even God should veil his face and seem to hear us not.
26 As I am pattern unto you, so you are patterns for the human race. We show by non-resistance that we give our lives in willing sacrifice for man.
27 But my example will not end with death. My body will be laid within a tomb in which no flesh has lain, symbolic of the purity of life in death.
28 And in the tomb I will remain three days in sweet communion with the Christ, and with my Father-God, and Mother-God.
29 And then, symbolic of the ascent of the soul to higher life, my flesh within the tomb will disappear;
30 Will be transmuted into higher form, and, in the presence of you all, I will ascend to God.
31 Then Jesus and the twelve went to a village by the sea.
_Jesus goes at night to a mountain to pray. His disciples and the villagers find him and he teaches them for three days. Feeds four thousand people. The Christines go to Cæsarea-Philippi. They consider the personality of Christ. Peter is chosen as apostolic leader._
Now, in the night while the disciples slept, lo, Jesus rose and went alone into a mountain pass, six miles away, to pray.
2 And in the morning when the twelve awoke they could not find the Lord, and all the people of the village sought, and when the sun had passed its highest point they found him in the mountain pass.
3 And multitudes of people came and brought their sick, and Jesus taught and healed.
4 And when the night came on the people would not go; they slept upon the ground that they might be a-near the Lord.
5 Three days and nights the multitudes remained, and none had aught to eat.
6 And Jesus had compassion and he said, If I should send the multitudes away they might not reach their homes, for they are faint, for some have journeyed many miles.
7 And his disciples said, Where shall we get enough of food to feed them all? There are four thousand men, besides the women and the little ones.