{False Christs; True Christ [continued (5)]}[16th March 1988]

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*So how do we identify **him? [–]I am convinced, by his Quality. That is something perceived directly by the Inner Sense, not by external senses or by inner representations or analogies of the external senses, although these may be symbols.

In this sense, the authors*** are quite right to warn against being convinced by bright lights in the mind: such things may be used to illustrate many possibilities, they come and go, I have had them often, and Scientists even think they might have found a biological explanation.**** It's not that Christ must not appear in a bright or white light: it is just that neither a bright nor a white light nor even an image of Jesus necessarily indicate the presence of Christ, any more than their absence indicates his absence.

'God is a Spirit; and those who worship him must worship him in Spirit.'# A spirit may give rise to certain symbolic external or internal phenomena (whether reliable, misleading or simply accidental); but the essence of a spirit (which I define as a spirit of God tinged or stained with certain soul-qualities, and in this sense I part drastically from the authors***) must be identified in its Quality, which is perceived according to the ability of the Individual. The Quality of Christ can best be discovered, at least initially, from the Gospels, followed by the Epistles.

*[See last 4 previous entries, [Redbook5:67-76][19880316:1300b]{False Christs; True Christ}[16th March 1988] ff.]

**[Christ]

***[See [Redbook5:67-76][19880316:1300b]{False Christs; True Christ}[16th March 1988]]

****for what it's worth....

{or at least a biological analogue(?), a process which may occur simultaneously.}

#[God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24 (A/KJV)]

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