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LETTERS. 20°F
to us for the development and glorification of our being.
It is found in the life of love; in the work of scientific re-
search; in the beauty of art; in the splendor of Nature ;
it is found in joy, in sorrow, in suffering, in every thing ;
aye, even in the bustle of every one’s business; in the food
which we enjoy corporeally. Bnt we must understand
this; we must understand the heavenly, which is hidden
in the earthly; we must in us receive the eternal, which
lives and develops itself in finite (transitive) temporal cir-
cumstances. . Only in this way do we prepare our real trans-
formation, and make, already here, the wings grow, which
shall be made perfect when the earthly shell breaks.
“Tam the living bread, which came down from heaven.”
says Jesus; and He says further: “Except ye eat the flesh
of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in
you;” and again, in the same chapter (St. John vi. 63,)
“Tt is the spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth noth-
ing; the words which I speak unto you, they are spirit, and
they are life.” And atthe last supper He says: “Take,
eat, this is my body; drink, for this is my blood,” ‘etc., etc.
Deep is this doctrine, but any thing but dark and mystical.
Here Christ says: “I am the life of the world; for I am
in the Father, and the Father in me; we two are one.”
“ Even as I gave myself for you, so will God give himself
to you in eternity” (for Christ is the manifestation upon
earth of what God is in eternity). “As I call you to com-
munion with me, so does God call you in eternity to that
heavenly feast, to impart to you His life, for your soul’s
and your body’s glorification. Abide in me; feed upon
my life (blood), upon my body (doctrine), then shall you
also live through me, and all that you shall do and work,
shall be to your own gain; for a sanctified soul will in all
things seek for sanctifying food. Be one with me, that I
may dwell in you, so that at the resurrection you may be
like unto me, for because I live, ye shall also live, and be
with me where I am.”
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