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8. CONCERNING THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (1)

            THE Immaculate Conception is none other than the prophecy of the means whereby the universe shall at last be redeemed. Maria – the sea of limitless space – Maria the Virgin, born herself immaculate and without spot, of the womb of the ages shall in the fulness of time bring forth the perfect Man who shall redeem the race. He is not one man, but ten thousand times ten thousand, the Son of Man, who shall overcome the limitations of matter and the evil which is the result of the materialization of spirit. His Mother is spirit, his Father is spirit, yet he is himself incarnate; and how then shall he overcome evil and restore

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matter to the condition of spirit? By force of love. It is love which is the centripetal power of the universe; it is by love that all creation returns into the bosom of God. The force which projected all things is Will; and will is the centrifugal power of Universe.

            Will alone could not overcome the evil which results from the limitations of matter; but it shall be overcome in the end by sympathy, which is the knowledge of God in others – the recognition of the Omnipresent Self. This is love. And it is with the children of the Spirit, the servants of love, that the dragon of matter makes war. (…)

            All that is true is spiritual. (…) For matter shall cease, and all that is of it, but the Word of the Lord shall remain for ever. If any dogma be true and yet seem to you to have a material signification, know that you have not solved it. That which is true, is for spirit alone.

NOTE

(47:1) Clothed with the Sun. Part I, Nº. 3.

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