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WILDERNESS, OR DESERTA symbol of the field or arena of the lower life, empty in itself of true life-the life of the Spirit. "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered." - MATTHEW iv. 1 2 The Christ-soul emerged from the latent condition within, whereupon the Higher Self, foreseeing its needs, put it to the test of its potency, by driving it into the arena of conflict where it was placed in relation with the not-Self or lower principle. And when the Christ-soul had undergone abstinence from intuitive knowledge during the transitory conditions attending the soul's pilgrimage for a term of the re-incarnating cycle, he became dissatisfied with the things of sense and longed for spiritual sustenance. "By wilderness is signified the church in which there is no longer any truth." - Swedenborg, Apocalypse Revealed, n. 722 "Every individual soul has its own particular rightful place in the totality of the life of God, and must come to it when all its labours are consummated, and its wanderings in the wilderness of illusion are over." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., Divine Restitution "Numbers-giving the history of Israel in the wilderness, their services, their trials, and their failures there-brings out, I cannot doubt, repeated types of the Christian's experience and pilgrimage in the world as a wilderness." - A. JUKES, Law of the Offerings, p. 26 |
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