_Jesus teaches the people. He takes Peter, James and John and
goes to a high mountain and is transfigured before them._
The news soon spread that Jesus and the twelve were come, and many
people came to see.
2 And Jesus said, Behold, you come to see, but that means naught. If
you would have the benedictions of the Christ, take up your cross and
follow me.
3 If you would give your life for selfish self, then you will lose
your life.
4 If you will give your life in service of your fellow men, then you
will save your life.
5 This life is but a span, a bauble of today. There is a life that
passes not.
6 Where is your profit if you gain the world and lose your soul? What
would you take in payment for your soul?
7 If you would find the spirit life, the life of man in God, then you
must walk a narrow way and enter through a narrow gate.
8 The way is Christ, the gate is Christ, and you must come up by the
way of Christ. No man comes unto God but by the Christ.
9 The kingdom of the Christ will come; yea, some of you who hear me
now will not pass through the gates of death until you see the kingdom
come in power.
10 For seven days the master and the twelve remained in
Cæsarea-Philippi.
11 Then Jesus, taking Peter, James and John, went forth unto a
mountain top to pray.
12 And as he prayed a brilliant light appeared; his form became as
radiant as a precious stone;
13 His face shone like the sun; his garments seemed as white as snow;
the son of man became the son of God.
14 He was transfigured that the men of earth might see the
possibilities of man.
15 When first the glory came the three disciples were asleep; a master
touched their eyes and said, Awake and see the glory of the Lord.
16 And they awoke, and saw the glory of the Lord; and more, they saw
the glory of the heavenly world, for they beheld two men from thence
stand forth beside the Lord.
17 And Peter asked the master who awakened them, Who are these men who
stand beside the Lord?
18 The master said, These men are Moses and Elijah, who are come that
you may know that heaven and earth are one; that masters there and
masters here are one.
19 The veil that separates the worlds is but an ether veil. For those
who purify their hearts by faith the veil is rolled aside, and they
can see and know that death is an illusive thing.
20 And Peter said, Praise God! And then he called to Jesus and he
said, My master and my Lord, this is the gate of heaven, and it is
well that we remain.
21 May we go down and bring three tents; a tent for you, a tent for
Moses, and for Elijah one? But Jesus answered not.
22 And Moses and Elijah talked with Jesus on the mount. They talked
about the coming trial of the Lord;
23 About his death, his rest within the tomb; about the wonders of the
resurrection morn; the transmutation of his flesh, and his ascension
on the clouds of light;
24 And all symbolic of the path that every man must tread; symbolic of
the way the sons of men become the sons of God.
25 The three disciples were amazed, and suddenly the ethers were
surcharged with song, and forms as light as air, moved all about the
mountain top.
26 And then from out the glory of the upper world they heard a voice
that said,
27 This is the son of man, my chosen one to manifest the Christ to
men. Let all the earth hear him.
28 When the disciples heard the voice they were afraid; they fell upon
the ground and prayed.
29 And Jesus came; he touched them and he said, Arise, fear not; lo, I
am here.
30 Then they arose, and as they looked about they saw no one; the men
had gone. The master only stood with them.
31 As Jesus and the three came from the mountain top they talked about
the meaning of the scene, and Jesus told them all; and then he said,
32 Till I have risen from the dead tell not to any one what you have
seen.
33 But the disciples could not comprehend the meaning of the words,
Till I have risen from the dead.
34 And Jesus told them once again about his death, and rising from the
grave; about the kingdom of the soul that was to come in glory and in
power.
35 But Peter said, The scribes have taught that e’er the king shall
come Elijah must appear.
36 And Jesus said, Elijah has already come; but scribes and Pharisees
received him not;
37 And men reviled him, bound him, cast him in a prison cell, and
shouted with a fiend’s delight to see him die.
38 What men have done to him, that they will do to me.
39 Then the disciples understood that Jesus spoke of John whom Herod
slew.