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FLESH IN WHICH IS LIFE

Symbolic of the lower nature in which the Spirit is involved.

"And behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die." - GENESIS. vi. 17.

From the Logos there issues forth an outpouring of truth which is to confound the lower mental nature and overwhelm falsity. This "destroying of all flesh" permits the new interpretation of life which is to be given through the interior revelation of the Spirit. The Spirit is involved in the lower nature of the soul, in mind and desire, and it is not liberated until life is known no more after the "flesh" but after the Spirit. Everything of the lower nature must die, i.e. end, since it is a condition of limitation.

"The spirit of man is—not shall be—eternally one with God, eternally pure and beautiful and good; we are here to make that truth sublime by manifesting it in the teeth of the direst odds. For a brief hour we are shut away from the full knowledge of what we are; the limitations of the flesh press hard upon us; we have to know fear, and pain, and conflict, that the eternal splendour may be revealed." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., The Flesh Transfigured.

 

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AFU-RĀ
BREATH OF LIFE
FLOOD
INCARNATION (Souls)INCARNATION (Spirit)
INVOLUTION
LIBERATION
LIVING
MAN
QUALITIES
SPIRIT
WATER