Discover the Power Within You: A Guide to the Unexplored Depths Within

by Eric Butterworth

Christ is not a person, but a principle. Christ is a level of the particularization of God into man, the focal point through which all the attributes of God are projected into livingness. When Paul says, “Christ in you, your hope of glory,” he isn’t referring to Jesus. Jesus discovered the Christ principle within Himself. But He revealed it as a principle that involved all humanity by revealing the new dimension of divinity. Christ in you is your hope of glory, for it is that of you that is of God and is God being projected into visibility as you. Christ in you is your own spiritual unity with the Infinite, the key to your health and success. Christ in you is “the true light which lighteth every man, coming into the world” (John 1:9). In other words, this point of light in the heart of man which Paul called the Christ, was also in Lao-tze, in Confucius, in Zoroaster, in Buddha, in Plato, in Emerson, and (in a very real sense) in you and me.