Recording 145B, “The Christ,” is from the 1956 First Steinway Hall Closed Class. It is the basis for Chapter 12, “The One Great Miracle,” in The Heart of Mysticism, Volume 5, The 1958 Infinite Way Letters, and it is Chapter 3 in The Christmas Letters.
Here is the quote from “Across the Desk” in that chapter, which was read at the beginning of our sessions:
“In this Letter you have read the miracle of my life—the experience of the Christ revealing Itself as a living Presence. Here you read how the consciousness of this Presence becomes the new dimension of life, Christ, and how It appears as our daily good. The great joy in all this is that the Experience came to me when I was living the normal human life of a businessman with most of its human faults and little of its virtues, although it undoubtedly came because of the depth of my longing to know God.
“The greater joy came later when I realized that all men may experience God, if so be they truly seek Him rather than seek that which may come through Him. This is the secret. Ponder this all through the holiday season when His spirit is hovering close to the world and ready for entrance—if we but bid Him enter.”