Immortal Clothing (II Cor. 5:1-10) ~ Ernest Holmes
"This body, in which we seem to live, is not the eternal body. We have a body not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. As our thought reaches up and on to that greater truth, we are clothed upon from heaven. That is, we more perfectly pattern the Divine and consequently more completely manifest the Eternal.
We do not wish to be unclothed but clothed upon. This is an interesting concept, for it implies that immortality clothes itself in definite forms, more beautiful than those which now appear.
We are to know no man after the flesh, but even Christ after the Spirit. Thus we are swallowed up of life. Death is overcome, not by dwelling upon it, but by contemplating eternal life. It is the belief of the writer that should one become completely unconscious of death and all fear of it, one would never know that he died, even though he went through the experience of passing from this life to the next. Death would be swallowed up of life.
It seems probable that when the last enemy is overcome, we shall pass from one experience to another at will; that the soul will clothe itself in a body on whatever plane it finds itself - a body which will express the soul on that plane. We are to know no man after the flesh but the Spirit.
The Inner Man (Eph. 3:16)
"To be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man." The inner man is Christ, and Christ is the son of God. The inner man is revealed by what he does. As we do not see God, so we do not see the real man. We never see causes, only effects; but the effect loudly affirms the nature of its cause.
The Spirit of God dwells in the inner man with power and might. The outer man reflects this Spirit in so far as the intellect allows it to come forth into expression.
When Christ dwells in us in love, which is unity, we are able to understand the things that the saints have understood. Saint simply means an unusually wise and good man - all saints have been human beings just as we are for God makes all people alike. The universe plays no favorites.
To be filled with the fullness of God is to manifest our true nature, which is Christ, the Son of God - "the power that worketh in us." This power is the power of God, and if we admitted no other, we should ever be satisfied, happy, prosperous, well and complete.
The Endless Creation (Eph. 3:20,21)
"World without end." This refers to the endless creation of the Almighty. Particular worlds will always begin and end, as do cabagges and kings; but creation itself - the necessity of God's manifesting Himself in time and in space - will never end. If creation could end, then God would end. As this is unthinkable, it follows that "world without end," or worlds without end, are necessary to the expression of Spirit."
"This body, in which we seem to live, is not the eternal body. We have a body not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. As our thought reaches up and on to that greater truth, we are clothed upon from heaven. That is, we more perfectly pattern the Divine and consequently more completely manifest the Eternal.
We do not wish to be unclothed but clothed upon. This is an interesting concept, for it implies that immortality clothes itself in definite forms, more beautiful than those which now appear.
We are to know no man after the flesh, but even Christ after the Spirit. Thus we are swallowed up of life. Death is overcome, not by dwelling upon it, but by contemplating eternal life. It is the belief of the writer that should one become completely unconscious of death and all fear of it, one would never know that he died, even though he went through the experience of passing from this life to the next. Death would be swallowed up of life.
It seems probable that when the last enemy is overcome, we shall pass from one experience to another at will; that the soul will clothe itself in a body on whatever plane it finds itself - a body which will express the soul on that plane. We are to know no man after the flesh but the Spirit.
The Inner Man (Eph. 3:16)
"To be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man." The inner man is Christ, and Christ is the son of God. The inner man is revealed by what he does. As we do not see God, so we do not see the real man. We never see causes, only effects; but the effect loudly affirms the nature of its cause.
The Spirit of God dwells in the inner man with power and might. The outer man reflects this Spirit in so far as the intellect allows it to come forth into expression.
When Christ dwells in us in love, which is unity, we are able to understand the things that the saints have understood. Saint simply means an unusually wise and good man - all saints have been human beings just as we are for God makes all people alike. The universe plays no favorites.
To be filled with the fullness of God is to manifest our true nature, which is Christ, the Son of God - "the power that worketh in us." This power is the power of God, and if we admitted no other, we should ever be satisfied, happy, prosperous, well and complete.
The Endless Creation (Eph. 3:20,21)
"World without end." This refers to the endless creation of the Almighty. Particular worlds will always begin and end, as do cabagges and kings; but creation itself - the necessity of God's manifesting Himself in time and in space - will never end. If creation could end, then God would end. As this is unthinkable, it follows that "world without end," or worlds without end, are necessary to the expression of Spirit."
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