#32 The Spiritual Society of Christ
[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. 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 wherev...