eant nothing else but that the Most High God will Himself appear on the stage of the world in human form, much in the same way as He has done previously through the flesh of Jesus the Christ. He has now come with that most perfect and most brilliant Manifestation for the reception of which Jesus and all the prophets had come to prepare the minds of the people." Turn read: over
"Verily I am that Heaven whereto ed the son of Mary."
That is to say, the Heaven towards which ascended the son of Mary, was Bahaullah himself who was in the physical world the incarnation of the Divine Being, and on the Heaven, God the Father to whom ascended God the Son in full glory. It was for this reason that Dr. Khairullah boosted Bahaullah as God the Father before the Christians of America, and his son Abbas Effendi as God the Son, i.e. Jesns, son of Mary. This happened in 1892 C.E., two years after Hadzrat Ghulam Ahmad had proclaimed himself as the Promised Messiah.
59 Hadzrat Mirza Sahib, on the other hand, dealt such a deadly blow to the Religion of the Cross that it is no longer a living force that had for centuries, swayed the East and the West. The Church doctrine of the Divinity of Jesus Christ and the washing away of man's sins with his blood, have been smashed so severely that a minister of the Church shudders in his shoes as soon as he comes to know that the man whom he is speaking to, is a follower of Hadzra.t Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Hadzrat Mirza Sahib has disproved and dispoiled the theory of Incarnation which constitutes not only a contempt of the Supreme Being but also betrays a lamentable ignorance of his attributes and knowledge, so overwhelmingly that the Religion of the Church has, since then, been moving away and receding from this Pagan principle. Wrote the Church Times of London in 1926: The second fundamental doctrine of Christian theology is the Incarnation. That great term in the creed of Christendom has denoted the experiences under human conditions of a Person who is Eternal. It signifies that the very God lived under manhood's limitation Modernism says,
60 impossible to maintain that God is fully Incarnate in Christ and not Incarnate at all in anyone else." Indeed, "Every human soul reveals, reproduces, incarnates God to some extent. What Modernism means by Incarnation is grace or inspira tion or influence of the Spirit of God on the soul of a human person.?" The second fundamen tal doctrine of historic Christianity is the Divinity of Jesus. The personality of Our Lord is literally that of God's Eternal Son ... According to Modernism "we must absolutely jettison the traditional doctrine that Christ's personality was not human, but Divine ..•. " Elsewhere we are told that Jesus believed in the Divinity of an men. The proposition here propounded appears to be that all men are Divine; Jesus is a man, therefore Jesus is Divine. He shares the Divinity of the race because he is human. Modernism has gained a good ground in Germany. It has claimed the pick of the culture and ability of the Anglican Church. America, too, is welcoming it; and in no long time the traditional Christianity will stand all over the Christian world corrected of its biggest blunder. But the credit of the cor-
"It is quite
61 rection will go to Hadzrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Messiah and Mahdi of this age. That Jesus came down from Heaven to earth, taking upon himself a human form that he might make propitiation for the sins of erring humanity by his own blood upon the Cross, was the fundamental doctrine of the Church theology. The whole machinery of the Church moved round this one pivot. Hadzrat Mirza Sahib proved by incontrovertible arguments that Jesus did not die upon the Cross, and drove, in this way, the last nail into the coffin of the traditional Christianity. Jesus was completely unconscious when he was taken down from the Cross. A Roman soldier pierced his side with the point of his spear and blood gushed out showing that he was still alive. His friends and followers lavished all care and treatment upon him, and Jesus revived. Fearing that he