To be near unto God - pagina 244

of God's unfathomable mercies glisten ever more gloriously. Thus there is a knowledge of God which we learn and derive from Christ. But there is a far greater knowledge of God which He himself imparts, which He brings, and makes fully clear to us in the hidden parts of the soul. The mystical part of it is, that he who is the Image of the invisible God, not only shows us this image, and fascinates us with it, but he chisels this image in us. Our inner life is made conformable to the inner life of Christ. His image is imprinted upon the saints of God. The highest knowledge of God that we can obtain in the earth is, when the image of God in Christ renews the image of God in us. 46

''HALLOWED BE THY NAME." True knowledge of God does not come from memory. It only becomes this when it finds its startingpoint in the things, which the Everysoul inwardly discerns and experiences. thing here must go out from personal contact between us and God. There is no knowledge of And light possible for one who was bom blind. as long as we do not perceive and discover God in ourselves, and are consciously affected by workings that go out from him, true knowledge of God is impossible. This is not felt by the sense of touch, but in our own immediate spiritual perception, so that not from reasoning, and not from what others have told us, but immediately from our own selves we know that God is and that God is great. storing the

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