The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 667

PRAYER AND THE CONSCIOUSNESS rejected every For which reasons the fathers our persons £rom the WoLof death as a sleep; as the

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should sleep death to that of the resurrection altho they denied not the tnterGod; of things fess o£ the glorious body. is separated from the mediate state in which the soul a consc.ous be to for the soul Wherefore it seems possible hear the of independently „u My. higher ense, ^Mou, ,lu aii of which enables us to reah.e he consciousness and the brains-a Jesus Chnst. the presence of the Lord glorious things of God and mystery, nor deep .s a higher consciousness operates

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but no more. Its existence is revealed, sciousness prinas settled, and this rs the The following may be considered consciousness temporary that inquiry. In cipal thing in our present same person the intermediate state, the in work will to thich we "-ns o hear by conscious is now will

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be -nscious of mybe bearer of after death , consciousness else or It can not be otherwise self alone can no reason that consciousness impossible, tor the simple can it person -'^And another exist without a person. and thus shall of that consciousness; bearer be shall person my own the presence of Jesus. I be enabled to enjoy important conclusion: that so From this we draw the following it is deordinary consciousness is concerned, far as the>»« of the dependent. essentially it is not so pendent upon the body; while obscures the sleep when even exist, Essentially it continues to me from myself, or a swoon makes estranges insanity or Thought, even when it continues to exist it that consciousness, and by

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lose consciousness; essentially

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death temporarily separates

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concerned rests in our personal ego.

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