And by this higher spiritual chemicalization of life thus set into operation the very thought forces of his mind became charged with a living, mighty, and omnipotent power, so as to effect a mastery over all exterior conditions:  hence the numerous things called miracles by those who witnessed and who had not entered into a knowledge of the higher laws that can triumph over and master the lower, but which are just as real and as natural on their plane as the lower, and even more real and more natural, because higher and therefore more enduring.  But this complete mastery over self during this period of temptation was just the beginning of the path that led from glory unto glory, the path that for you and for me will lead from glory unto glory the same as for him.

It was this new divine and spiritual chemistry of life thus set into operation that transformed the man Jesus, that royal-hearted elder brother, into the Christ Jesus, and forever blessed be his name; for he thus became our Saviour,—­he became our Saviour by virtue of pointing out to us the way.  This overcoming by the calling of the higher spiritual forces into operation is certainly what he meant when he said, I have overcome the world, and what he would have us understand when he says, Overcome the world, even as I have overcome it.

And in the same sense we are all the saviors one of another, or may become so.  A sudden emergency arises, and I stand faltering and weak with fear.  My friend beside me is strong and fearless.  He sees the emergency.  He summons up all the latent powers within him, and springs forth to meet it.  This sublime example arouses me, calls my latent powers into activity, when but for him I might not have known them there.  I follow his example.  I now know my powers, and know them forever after.  Thus, in this, my friend has become my savior.

I am weak in some point of character,—­vacillating, yielding, stumbling, falling, continually eating the bitter fruit of it all.  My friend is strong, he has gained thorough self-mastery.  The majesty and beauty of power are upon his brow.  I see his example, I love his life, I am influenced by his power.  My soul longs and cries out for the same.  A supreme effort of will—­that imperial master that will take one anywhere when rightly directed—­arises within me, it is born at last, and it calls all the soul’s latent powers into activity; and instead of stumbling I stand firm, instead of giving over in weakness I stand firm and master, I enter into the joys of full self-mastery, and through this into the mastery of all things besides.  And thus my friend has again become my savior.

With the new power I have acquired through the example and influence of my savior-friend, I, in turn, stand before a friend who is struggling, who is stumbling and in despair.  He sees, he feels, the power of my strength.  He longs for, his soul cries out for the same. His interior forces are called into activity, he now knows his powers; and instead of the slave, he becomes the master, and thus I, in turn, have become his savior.  Oh, the wonderful sense of sublimity, the mighty feelings of responsibility, the deep sense of power and peace the recognition of this fact should bring to each and all.