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9. SOBRE A QUEDA (1)

            “NOW the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” “For as in the earthly and rebellious Adam we die; so in the Christ we are alive for evermore.” That is, that inasmuch as by disobedience to the Divine Will the soul brings on itself dissolution and eternal death; so, when it is regenerate and strives continually to attain, the Christ nature, it obtains thereby eternal life. For it arises necessarily out of the law of the universe that nothing can continue to exist which is out of harmony with the Divine Central Will. Now, the nature which is in most perfect harmony with the Divine Will is the Christ-nature. Wherefore,

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of the redeemed universe the perfect chord is, Thy Will be done.

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            For apart from God, Who is its life, the soul is nothing. And this knowledge of her shameful condition is all the soul gains by rebellion. And so the lesson to the soul is this: – If thou disunite thyself from God and make thy desire earthwards, thou art as the dust of the ground, and must die the death of the body. But if thou desire only God and make God’s law thy will, and its accomplishment thy delight, thou becomest as God and hast eternal life.

NOTE

(51:1) Clothed with the Sun. Part I, Nº. 7.

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