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     Proceeding with the account, there appear two celestial participants in the scene which occurred on this mount of vision. Who are these participants, and why are they here ? The record tells us all we can know, until we ourselves have gone high enough in understanding to have every thing revealed to us. They are Moses and Elias, come to discourse with their Master on what was to be the crowning manifestation of his earthly career. Mary Baker Eddy    (CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)

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     This suggests the very natural inquiry: How long was this scene of the transfiguration in taking place; that is, as we compute time? All that can be said is, that our conceptions of time have no value at all. Whether it consumed an hour or a month, the main point to know is, that it sufficed to work a complete change in their consciousness; that it sufficed to prepare them, as it did their Master, for the stirring events and severe trials which, according to mortal sense, they were soon to encounter, so that, in spite of the ordeal of the crucifixion, they did not become permanently separated from their Master. Mary Baker Eddy   (CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)

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     There are successive stages of revealing throughout this marvelous event. They must gain the highest sense of the personal man, before they would be enabled to discern the impersonal Man. We must not mistake the manifestation at this precise point for what it is not. They have risen high enough in thought to perceive that all of their former conceptions of Jesus were misleading and false. Mary Baker Eddy    (CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)

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     This entire scene of the transfiguration, as it appears to me, is an unfolding in successive disclosures of man’s real being. At this particular time in the narration, they had reached a middle plane whence they could look down upon what had, up to this hour, been their conception of the Master; while there was also placed before their vision the fact that there were still heights to which they must attain, ere they could understand all that it taught them ; and this we ourselves must perceive, or we shall miss its divine import. Mary Baker Eddy   (CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)

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     This is what they saw, and what we must see in this transfiguration-story. Yet, it is the personal Jesus which they see at this precise point, for they have not risen high enough to discover the impersonal Saviour. The impersonal Jesus will become more apparent later on in this history of man’s true unfoldment. Mary Baker Eddy    (CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April,

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Up to this very hour they had seen him as a man of sorrows; weary, footsore and subject to all the limitations of mortal man. Now they begin to catch a glimpse of something more glorious, something nearer the divine and exalted Being which their Master really was. Are they not also gaining a first glimpse of themselves — that is, of the glorified, the real man who was, is, and forever shall be? Mary Baker Eddy   (CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)

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     Passing on, notice that the Master’s raiment became white and glistening, while his countenance became changed before them. How are we to interpret this ? This change, taking place before their eyes, is one in which they are beginning to catch a clearer view than had ever dawned upon them. It is the person of their Master which they are still beholding, but in a new sense,—not in the old sense in which they formerly regarded him. Mary Baker Eddy   (CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)

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     We ourselves actually were taken thereon; — not this sick, sinning, dying nature, but that complete, glorified sense of the real, immortal man who always was, is, and forever shall be. Humanity virtually went with Christ to witness the transfiguration, and these three disciples were the forerunners, the avant-couriers of our exaltation. The glorified man was seen by them later on in this transfiguration scene,— though its full significance did not wholly appear to them until after the resurrection, at the day of Pentecost. Mary Baker Eddy   (CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)