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[[File:Michelangelo Buonarroti - Jugement dernier.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Michelangelo’s depiction of the Second Coming of Christ, in the Sistine Chapel]]

The First Coming of Jesus Christ was his coming to set the example and to show what is the life, the Path, the works, the teaching, the example of one who has internalized the only begotten Son of God. Jesus did that for us, and the saints who followed him, who have led exemplary lives, who have made their ascension, have also demonstrated that path.   

The Second Coming is the ascended master who comes to us and restores to our memory by the Holy Spirit all the things that he has taught us. Jesus has already come in his Second Coming as the ascended master. He is with us. He is teaching us. That is not to say that some will not experience him and see him coming in clouds of glory on a certain day. But we have to understand that revelation becomes very personal, and it comes to each one individually.

The true Second Coming may come at any time. It is not a one-time event of the centuries, but an hourly event. It came for John the Beloved prior to his ascension in his embodiment as the apostle who wrote the Book of Revelation. It may have come to some of us when we walked and talked with Jesus. It may come to us two thousand years later.   

Paul said that no man could confess that Jesus is Lord without the Holy Ghost.<ref>1 Cor. 12:3.</ref> This means that in order to perceive the Christ in anyone, we have to receive the Holy Spirit. When we have that Spirit, we can confess the Christ as being the true identity of every son and daughter of God, the real spark of life. When we can begin to acknowledge that, then we will see the Master Jesus descending in a cloud.   

The Bible prophesies the coming of the [[Everlasting Gospel]] in the Book of Revelation. There flies in the midst of heaven an angel that has the Everlasting Gospel to preach to the men of earth.<ref>Rev. 14:6.</ref> This event is thought to precede the Second Coming.   

We understand that this Everlasting Gospel is here now. It is a thoughtform and a matrix of the mind of God like a swaddling garment, like a sphere of yellow fire that surrounds the earth. It imparts to all people the sense of the universality of religion, the oneness of all religion and the universality of the Christ. People are very much aware that this Christ who was in Jesus is a Universal Presence who is also with them—that Presence prophesied in Jeremiah as the coming of The Lord Our Righteousness.<ref>Jer. 23:6.</ref>

We believe that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ has taken place, that he has descended in clouds of glory, that this ascended master has descended to earth, has delivered his message of the Everlasting Gospel, is continuing to do so. And the prophecy that every eye shall see him applies to every eye that is in that vibration and wavelength where he is caught up by the Spirit of his resurrection to the plane of perception. This does not occur simultaneously. It occurs not according to time and space, but according to the individual soul’s capacity to receive him.

<blockquote>Blessed hearts, I have called you to be my own, my disciples, my apostles. I have called to you to be the Christ.<ref>See {{WWM}}, chapters 1, 4, 5.</ref> I have called, beloved, that the multiplication of my Body, which is broken for you, might be that my Electronic Presence should move in the earth through you and that my Sacred Heart upon your sacred heart might amplify that threefold flame and that open door of the heart whereby through us, one upon one, my Self superimposed upon your self, the souls of earth might enter into the path of discipleship unto the same fulfillment of the Law that you yourselves are realizing and have realized in some measure.<ref>Ibid., p. 145.</ref></blockquote>