“What a contrast between our Lord’s last supper and his last spiritual breakfast with his disciples in the bright morning hours at the joyful meeting on the shore of the Galilean Sea!” (SH 34:20.)
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Heb. 12:2, emphasis added.)
“The lost chord of Truth (healing, as of old) I caught consciously from the Divine Harmony, vibrating its own sweet music. It was to me a revelation of Truth, – God; and Science, explaining the Principle of this Divine Harmony, enabled me to understand it, and to systematize and demonstrate Truth.” (“Mind-Healing History” by Mary Baker Eddy, CSJ, June 1887.)
Throughout his ordeal at the cross, the “joy that was set before him” was the only reality upon which his heart and mind were fixed.
From Gethsemane to Golgotha, Jesus subjected himself to the worst possible discord – physical, mental, emotional – that error could possibly throw at him and that sense could possibly bear. This was the price he paid in order to demonstrate for us the unreality of personal sense experiencing the unreality of discord. Regardless of the great flood of error relentlessly poured out upon him, regardless of all the jarring harshness and dissonance clamoring for his attention, Jesus kept himself in tune with Harmony, attuned steadfastly and devotedly to “the chord of Truth” that the world had lost, having attuned itself to everything out of tune with that chord.
Atonement means remaining at one — in constant harmony — with the celestial song of supremacy of Spirit over matter, no matter what.