The Transition Years

134:0.1Dur­ing the Med­i­ter­ra­nean jour­ney Je­sus had care­fully stud­ied the peo­ple he met and the coun­tries through which he passed, and at about this time he reached his fi­nal de­ci­sion as to the re­main­der of his life on earth. He had fully con­sid­ered and now fi­nally ap­proved the plan which pro­vided that he be born of Jew­ish par­ents in Pales­tine, and he there­fore de­lib­er­ately re­turned to Gal­i­lee to await the be­gin­ning of his life­work as a pub­lic teacher of truth; he be­gan to lay plans for a pub­lic ca­reer in the land of his fa­ther Joseph’s peo­ple, and he did this of his own free will.

134:0.2Je­sus had found out through per­sonal and hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence that Pales­tine was the best place in all the Ro­man world wherein to set forth the clos­ing chap­ters, and to en­act the fi­nal scenes, of his life on earth. For the first time he be­came fully sat­is­fied with the pro­gram of openly man­i­fest­ing his true na­ture and of re­veal­ing his di­vine iden­tity among the Jews and gen­tiles of his na­tive Pales­tine. He def­i­nitely de­cided to fin­ish his life on earth and to com­plete his ca­reer of mor­tal ex­is­tence in the same land in which he en­tered the hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence as a help­less babe. His Uran­tia ca­reer be­gan among the Jews in Pales­tine, and he chose to ter­mi­nate his life in Pales­tine and among the Jews.