To be near unto God - pagina 150

In connection, therefore, with the is eternal life, the imagof our spirit must also be considered.

appearances.

knowledge of God, which inative life

to this secret is, that spirit and matter, the world, are distinguished from one in such a way that it can never be

The key

God and another ignored.

For

if

not, irresistibly

we do we are, whether we will or drawn into Pantheism. While on

the other hand it can not be denied that God has created the world, so that whatever there is in the world can never express anything else than what has been thought out by God, even the Word from all eternity. Likewise as regards our soul and body, it must be inexorably maintained, that these are two, even in this sense, that after death the soul continues its life in the disembodied state until the resurrection. Though again it should not be forgotten that soul and body complement one another, and that the soul can only reveal the fulness of its power through the body. This gives rise to a threefold realm of activity. One is the realm of pure spiritual activity. Another is the realm of activity through and with the aid of the body. And there is also a mixed domain, in which the spirit truly operates purely spiritually^ but with data from the world of sense. The use of images in spoken language can not be reckoned with this. We know by these that we mean something metaphorical, something outside of reality. When the righteous is said to be as courageous as a lion, everyone understands that But it it does not mean a real, devouring beast. is different in dreams. Then we see people and co-operate with them. We engage in conversa146

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