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“O thou who dost believe in the Spirit of Christ, in the…” |
The body is composed, in truth, of corporeal elements
and every composition is necessarily subject to decomposition;
but the spirit is an essence, simple, pure, spiritual,
eternal, perpetual and divine. He who seeketh
Christ from the point of view of His body hath, in
truth, debased Him and hath gone astray from Him;
but he who seeketh Christ from the point of view of
His Spirit will grow from day to day in joy, attraction,
zeal, proximity, perception and vision.
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Thou hast then to seek the Spirit of Christ in this
marvelous day. The heaven whither Christ ascended
is not an infinite space. His heaven is much rather the
kingdom of His Lord, the Munificent. As He said,
“The Son of Man is in heaven.” It is known then that
His heaven is beyond the boundaries that surround
existence and that He is elevated for the people who
adore.
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Pray God to ascend to this heaven, to taste of its
food—and know thou that the people have not understood
to this day the mystery of the Holy Scriptures.
They believe that Christ was deprived of His heaven
when He was in this world, that He had fallen from the
heights of His elevation and that later He ascended to
this elevated pinnacle—that is to say, towards the heaven
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which doth not exist, for there is only space. They
expect that He will descend from this heaven seated
upon a cloud. They believe that there is in the heavens
a cloud upon which He will be seated and by which He
will descend; while, in reality, the clouds are vapors
which rise from the earth and which do not descend
from the heavens. The cloud mentioned in the Holy
Scriptures is the human body, because it is a veil for
them, like a cloud, which prevents them from seeing the
Sun of Truth which is shining in the horizon of Christ.
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