OTHER TEACHINGS from the NEW TESTAMENT
Ernest Holmes
The Unity of Life (Eph. 4:1-7)
"The unity of the Spirit is kept through the bonds of peace. Other than peace suggests confusion and separation. The Spirit is a perfect unit and we harmonize with this unity when we maintain a state of peace in our minds.
"There is one body and one Spirit." The entire creation is this body - the Body of God, who is One Spirit. Within this one Body are all bodies; that is, within the one creation - which is the product of the One Spirit - are all bodies.
We have learned that all material forms come form one ultimate substance. Any special body is some manifestation of this original stuff. The original substance takes many forms; multiplicity, or many, within unity, or the One.
"One Lord, one faith, one baptism." One Lord, who is the indwelling Christ, generic man or the universal Son. There is but one faith, for faith is an affirmative mental attitude toward the universe; and one baptism, which is the realization that we are in the One Spirit.
"One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." It would be impossible to make a clearer statement of Truth: One Life behind all that lives! One, One, One...never two. The unity of all life. To learn this is to know a secret of the ages.
Here is a mystical saying: God is in all, through all, and above all, which means that we partake of the One Life...It is all of us...but we are not all of this Life. No man can exhaust the Divine Nature, but all live by, in, and through It. It is in us but also around us - It is what we are but infinitely more than we are! We shall ever ascend into a greater expression of this One, but we can never completely encompass It. This is a glorious concept, and one which fills us with wonder at the majesty of our own being - forever hid with Christ in God."
Ernest Holmes
The Unity of Life (Eph. 4:1-7)
"The unity of the Spirit is kept through the bonds of peace. Other than peace suggests confusion and separation. The Spirit is a perfect unit and we harmonize with this unity when we maintain a state of peace in our minds.
"There is one body and one Spirit." The entire creation is this body - the Body of God, who is One Spirit. Within this one Body are all bodies; that is, within the one creation - which is the product of the One Spirit - are all bodies.
We have learned that all material forms come form one ultimate substance. Any special body is some manifestation of this original stuff. The original substance takes many forms; multiplicity, or many, within unity, or the One.
"One Lord, one faith, one baptism." One Lord, who is the indwelling Christ, generic man or the universal Son. There is but one faith, for faith is an affirmative mental attitude toward the universe; and one baptism, which is the realization that we are in the One Spirit.
"One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." It would be impossible to make a clearer statement of Truth: One Life behind all that lives! One, One, One...never two. The unity of all life. To learn this is to know a secret of the ages.
Here is a mystical saying: God is in all, through all, and above all, which means that we partake of the One Life...It is all of us...but we are not all of this Life. No man can exhaust the Divine Nature, but all live by, in, and through It. It is in us but also around us - It is what we are but infinitely more than we are! We shall ever ascend into a greater expression of this One, but we can never completely encompass It. This is a glorious concept, and one which fills us with wonder at the majesty of our own being - forever hid with Christ in God."
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