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1		"There is an unborn Christ in the soul of every one of us, the Christos, the Prince of Peace, the Prince of Love." Wind of the Spirit (G. dePurucker)

2		"Christ is the still living myth of our culture. He is our culture hero who embodies the myth of the divine Primordial Man. He is in us and we in him." 'Aion' Collected Works (Carl Jung)

3		"Authentic morality, in Jesus' living experience, flowed naturally and spontaneously from authentic and realized divine love." Son of Man, The Mystical Path to Christ (Andrew Harvey)

4		"Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it, and had his being there....He was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World." Essays, Poems, Addresses (Ralph W Emerson)

5		"Everything that came from Jesus's lips worked like a magnifying glass to focus human awareness on the two most important facts about life: God's overwhelming love of humanity, and the need for people to accept that love and let it flow through them in the way water passes without obstruction through a sea anemone." The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition (Huston Smith)

6		“Jesus’ creed and theology is simple. It is the love of God and all persons which was his hallmark.” Lives of the Masters: The Rest of the Jesus Story (Glen Sanderfur)

7		"Healing is still possible. This is the hope that the Cosmic Christ, wounded but resurrected, holds out to our times." The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (Matthew Fox)

8		"Jesus said, 'Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the pupil of your eye." The Gospel of Thomas (2nd century Gnostic text) The Other Bible (Willis Barnstone, editor)

9		"In Christ we not only discover the centre or ground of our being, but we also find a meeting point with all other men and with the whole world of nature." Christ in India: Essays Towards a Hindu-Christian Dialogue (Bede Griffiths)

10		"Christ was the perfect expression of divinity in form. He balanced spirit and matter perfectly. That is the work we all have to do." The Labours of Hercules (Alice A. Bailey)

11		"The Christ is the historical 'living force', always present, who exemplifies freedom of the heart and freely willed fraternity." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

12		"The Son of God assumed flesh and came into the world to illumine all human beings with grace and truth." Thomas Aquinas, In Jn 1. 5, n. 104 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

13		"Christ espoused the sinner and did not condemn him. The true follower of Christ will do the same, and, since one should do unto others as one would do unto oneself, one will also take the part of the sinner who is oneself." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

14		"In the lesson of His own life, Jesus gave humanity the magnificent purpose and the single objective toward which we all ought to aspire. I believe that He belongs not solely to Christianity, but to the entire world, to all lands and races." Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)

15		"Jesus Christ never met an unimportant person." M. C. Cleveland Living Quotations for Christians (Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors)

16		"In unconscious humanity there is a latent seed that corresponds to the prototype Jesus." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

17		"Jesus said, My Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." Gospel of Nicodemus, ch. 7, v. 4 The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden (various)

18		"Christ's message was that each man is good inherently, and is an individualized portion of the divine." The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events (Jane Roberts)

19		“On the cross, Jesus’ immortal plea as recorded in Luke 23:34 was ‘Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.’…He made no exception for those who had wrongfully abused him; theirs too was the promise of heaven.” Lives of the Masters: The Rest of the Jesus Story (Glen Sanderfur)

20		"To abide in Christ is not a matter of religious belief but of alignment with the very nature of reality." Theodore J. Nottingham, 'The Mysticism of Christian Teaching' The Inner West, An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West (Jay Kinney, editor)

21		"The Cosmic Christ is the divine element, the divine 'I am', in every creature." Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

22		"Jesus' life is a vivid testimony to the reality of Spirit, a reality affirmed and known in virtually every society." Jesus, A New Vision: Spirit, Culture, and The Life of Discipleship (Marcus J. Borg)

23		"In the life of Christ we have the most complete and perfect demonstration and example of divinity lived successfully on earth, and lived – as most of us have to live – not in retirement, but in the full tide of storm and stress." From Bethlehem to Calvary (Alice A. Bailey)

24		"Christ is the inner man who is reached by the path of self-knowledge, 'the kingdom of heaven within you.'" Collected Works (Carl Jung)

25		"The Christ is a generic inner fact of the world and Earth history – and a fact highly worth knowing." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)