WEEKLY UNITY PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY FOR PRACTICAL CHRISTIANS HOLIDAY SUBSCRIPTIONS What could be more appropriate for a gift at at Christmas time than a year's subscription to a magazine that proclaims Christ as reality, ever present and living today? Our magazines show how Christ is here in each consciousness. His teachings can be applied to everyday problems in such a THE HOLY SPIRIT way that they bring Joy and Happiness, Health and Prosperity. If you give each of your friends a year's subscription to one of our periodicals you are plac EEWISDOM ing in their reach a key that will open to them a new life of possibilities. Unity Magazine is $1.00 a year; Weekly Unity, $1.00 a year; Wee Wisdom is 50 cents a year. Christmas Cards, if desired, will be sent to the recipients of all Christmas and New Year subscriptions. The sender's name will be written on the greeting. UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY, Tenth and Tracy Ave., Kansas City, Mo. DEVOTED TO PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY: A Monthly Magazine, issued the 15th of the month by UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY (Incor.) Tenth Street and Tracy Avenue. Unity Bldg,. Kansas City, Mo. Entered as second-class matter, July 15, 1891, at the postoffice at Kansas City. Missouri, under the act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. VOL. 49 KANSAS CITY, MO., DECEMBER, 1918 No. 6 THE BIRTH OF CHRIST IN INDIVIDUAL AND UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS IDA M. MINGLE VERY man is in essence the Christ of God, but not until he comes into conscious knowledge of how to relate him-self to this Truth does he begin to unfold his godlike nature. "Ye must be born again," admonished the Man who demonstrated his Christhood, before you can enter into the kingdom of heaven. Man, content in personal consciousness, has no access to the kingdom of heaven within his being, for only through desire for higher unfoldment does man knock at the door of this inner kingdom for admittance. Desire for advancement invites knowledge of how to advance, and this knowledge applied ushers the yearning soul into such satisfactory living that he would not again enter willingly into a selfish, personal expression of life. There is no mystery attached to the birth of Christ in either individual or universal consciousness. Christ may press for birth in the heart of man, through desires to express greater strength and stability of character, but not until man permits its coming forth does the Christ-seed implanted in him begin to unfold. Once |