The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 668

PRAYER

628

in so far as the ego, conscious of the existence of the divine Per-

sons and of the bond that unites

it

to them, allows that

bond

to

operate.

And

come

thus we

to this final conclusion

:

that the possibility

ground in the fact of our being created Not only is our self-consciousness a result after the image of God. of that fact, for God is eternally self-conscious, but from it also springs that other mighty fact that I, as a man, can be conscious of the existence of the Eternal, and of the intimate bond which unites me to Him. The consciousness of this bond and relation manifests of prayer finds its deepest

itself in

work

prayer as soon as we address ourselves to God. Holy Spirit in prayer must be looked for

of the

of the creation of man. point,

we

And

discovered that

since, in our

it is

God

in

Hence the His work

former study on this who in man's

the Holy Spirit

creation caused this consciousness to awake, carrying into

maintaining by

it

the consciouness of the existence of

the bond which unites phenomenon in man's

work

of the

Holy

man

to

Him,

it is

it

and

God and

of

evident that prayer, as a

spiritual life, finds its basis directly in the

Spirit in

mans

creation.

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