In this essential respect, the, the Gospel has been obscured and muffled
almost from the beginnings. For Jesus was presumably trying to say that our
consciousness is the divine spirit, "the light which enlightens every one who
comes into the world," and which George Fox, founder of the Quakers, called the
Inward Light. But the Church, still bound to the image of God as the King of
kings, couldn’t accept this Gospel. It adopted a religion about Jesus instead of
the religion of Jesus. It kicked him upstairs and put him in the privileged and
unique position of being the Boss’s son, so that, having this unique advantage,
his life and example became useless to everyone else. The in...

In this essential respect, the, the Gospel has been obscured and muffled
almost from the beginnings. For Jesus was presumably trying to say that our
consciousness is the divine spirit, "the light which enlightens every one who
comes into the world," and which George Fox, founder of the Quakers, called the
Inward Light. But the Church, still bound to the image of God as the King of
kings, couldn’t accept this Gospel. It adopted a religion about Jesus instead of
the religion of Jesus. It kicked him upstairs and put him in the privileged and
unique position of being the Boss’s son, so that, having this unique advantage,
his life and example became useless to everyone else. The individual Christian
must not know that his own "I am" is the one that existed before Abraham. In
this way, the Church institutionalized and made a virtue of feeling chronic
guilt for not being as good as Jesus. It only widened the alienation, the
colossal difference, that monotheism put between man and God.