[Pryr-1.2-32] This is Christianity, is a spiritual
Society, not because it has no worldly Concerns, as long as we are of this
World, we will always have them, but because all its Members, are born of the
Spirit, and they are kept alive, animated and governed by the Spirit of God.
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| The Peaceable Kingdom by Edw. Hicks c. 1845, American at the Brooklyn Museum |
This constant discourse is with our Lord,
and the Kingdom of God, or as we know it best, Heaven, because all its Ministry
and Service, is done in Obedience as we Subject ourselves to that Greater Spirit
by which Angels live, and are governed in Heaven.
Hence our blessed Lord taught his Disciples
to pray, that this Kingdom might come, that so God's Will might be done on
Earth, as it is in Heaven; which could not be, but by that same Spirit, by
which it is done in Heaven.
The short of it all, is this: The Kingdom
of Self is the Fall of Man, or the great Apostasy from the Life of God in the
Soul; and everyone wherever He be, that lives just for his Self, that he is still
suffering from the scourge of the Fall living the animal life & still is in
great Apostasy (Defection) from God.
The Kingdom of Christ is the Spirit and the
Power of God. It dwells and manifests
itself in the Birth of a new inward Man; and everyone who is a Member of this
Kingdom, is true to the Birth of the Christ Spirit that was brought forth in
him.
But leave no mistake, these two Kingdoms are
all there are in all Mankind, and he that is not of one, is certainly in the
other; one is Dying or already Dead – the alive Living and Alive.
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