{The Imitation of Christ [continued (5)]}[20th November 1989]

 [Redbook6:353][19891120:0930h]{The Imitation of Christ [continued (5)]}[20th November 1989]

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    It is worth recalling the spiritual vocabulary:

God the Spirit – the ultimate and original centre of God.

The Spirit of God – the ultimate and original centre of each Individual – distinguished from God the Spirit only in the perception of the separated Individual, not in its own perception.

spirits [sic] – ‘Free spirits of the Kingdom’,* that is, the Spirit(s) [sic] of God ensouled but not embodied, each being generally a cluster of Qualities motivated by a Will – the Will (to a lesser or greater degree of Separation) of God (This last suggestion is rather more speculative).

    The designation ‘spirits’ is traditional and helpful: it might be more pedantically precise to describe them as ‘Souls’ and ourselves as ‘Bodies’, but this would not emphasise the inner nature of the questions we are dealing ** with.

*(per? [2] [confirmed – subject to revision])

**([s] fecit – [s] joggit) [marginal note presumably relating to a deletion here of the first attempt to write ‘with’]

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