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GOSPEL
The message of Wisdom from within to acquaint the
soul of its Divine nature, its purpose, and its destiny.
“How that our gospel came not unto you in word only but also in
power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance.” – 1 Thess. i.
5.
The message of Wisdom (Holy Ghost) may be suggested from outside,
but its power, and the conviction of its truth, can only be found
within.
“And this too we must bear in mind, that as the law contains a
shadow of good things to come, which are indicated by that law which
is announced according to truth, so the Gospel also teaches a shadow
of the mysteries of Christ, the Gospel which is thought to be
capable of being understood by anyone. What John calls the eternal
Gospel, and which may properly be called the spiritual Gospel,
presents clearly to those who have the will to understand, all
matters concerning the very Son of God, both the mysteries presented
by His discourses and those matters of which His acts were the
enigmas.” – Origen, Comm. on John, Bk. I. p. 9.
“By the Gospel and the preaching of the Gospel is signified the
annunciation of the coming of the Lord and of his kingdom.” –
Swedenborg, Apocalypse Revealed, n. 626.
“The gospel is that of the revelation of God in Christ, who is the
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
The gospel of Christ would be powerless to help in readjusting
life’s beginnings and endings unless he were himself in very deed a
revelation of the cosmic secret, the heart divine that beats at the
centre of all existence and seeks its own by way of the cross. He
was and is the focus and embodiment of that which was from the
beginning, and is the true and only end of all our strivings.” – R.
J. Campbell, Serm., Beginnings and Endings.
“When the new light has come on a heart prepared to receive it; when
the new ideas, which are a gospel to us, are recognised at once as
the masters of life, what is the main result? They transfigure life,
they make all things new, they exalt the common into the divine,
they cleanse and ennoble all the world. It is the work that the
ideas of the Gospel of Christ do upon the spirit that receives and
loves them. … In the realm of the pure intellect all things are
glorified as parts of a great whole.” – Stopford A. Brooke, Serm.,
Peter and Cornelius.
“Our confidence remains unshaken, that Christ and His all-quickening
life are in the world, as fixed elements, and will be to the end of
time; for Christianity is not so much the advent of a better
doctrine as of a perfect character; and how can a perfect character,
once entered into life and history, be separated and finally
expelled? It were easier to untwist all the beams of light in the
sky, separating and expunging one of the colours, than to get the
character of Jesus, which is the real gospel, out of the world.” –
H. Bushnell, Nature and the Supernatural, p. 231.
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