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In a word: in the last supper is pronounced the pro-
found doctrine of God’s relation to mankind (He feeds us
with His life and communicates it to us), and the doctrine
of affinity between the spiritual and the corporeal teaches
us “such as the spirit is, so shall the body be also; the
outward as the inward.”
Oh! Frances, how feebly does not my tongue stammer
forth the profundity of eternal wisdom. Yes, I know it is
only in part; but in these parts of an inexpressible whole,
in these single letters of the eternal word, the soul finds
light and joy. So has mine done; therefore it unfolds
itself to yours.
Only one word more on this subject. The world is full
of weak and also of bad food, in a spiritual point of view.
We should deteriorate and go to ruin by it, if we were not ,
strengthened and elevated by a heavenly (eternal) bread —
food, and wine—drink. This goes forth concretely in
the holy communion. It is the doctrine of the atone-
ment, expressed in deed; the heavenly synthesis, in which
all life’s antitheses are annulled (as such) and united and
reconciled in a higher oneness.
As regards the sufferings of your little children, as an
atonement, I can only say, that the suffering which can
have a saving quality or one reconciling with God, must be
a suffering which develops something good within us, and
which thereby can make-us active for others. But your
departed children work beneficially for you, I can clearly
see, from the direction which your mind has taken towards
the invisible home, to which God has called them. But
whether their suffering (I mean from their disease, for any
other suffering these little, happy children could not know)
has contributed to this, I do not know. If we can assume
that this suffering has had a developing effect upon their in-
nocent souls (and this may be probable), they have thereby
attained to a higher capacity. Not your sins, but the sins
and the fallen state of all mankind, acted upon them, and
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