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EAL TO AUTHENTIC MISSION BUI L D THEE Mon s STATELY MANSIONS EA TI THE WORLD B U FUL. You look into the physicalworldfor light andtruth an d ower but are blin d to the s irit which un der p , p lieth a ll hin s I d lare ou in allthin s it is t g . ec to y g the un seen that ruleth over the seen an dmore ower , p fultha n heat an dli ht and life a n dd ath is Armuz d g e , the Person of all thin s ill e ha ve lea rn edthis I g . T y , can ex plain n othi n g that ye can comprehen d. And yet to kn ow this is the begin n ing of the foun dation of everlastin ha iness. Eastern Sa es g pp g . V J rv ‘ .“ local prophet of his time that the x world was about to come to an en d he re e r n a he u he , pli d se e e th t tho ght o u a f c ld get along without it. An other h l century has made it eviden t to all humanity that it wouldbe quite possible to get along w wor in a forces of a finer ithout the ld, th t order are substituting themselves for the m re c ums mec an sms of an ear r da o l y h i lie y, andthat we are advancing in to the realm of the ns n is b n o means the n s U ee , which y i vi i bl r f n t o e. Seeing is a mo e question o co di i n or e r . Th n f m the d g ee e GildedDome, see ro Oofizxmoil la unseen from Cambridge . From a oiflt f vi Wh r is uns n e e p o ew e e it ee by the y , ma s n hr u e s so a it y be ee t o gh the t le cope, th t “ an object that is . unseen is n ot n ecessarily n s e 0 erms w e n ot n a ft e i vi ibl . “ 11:t t , hil u n use reh an eabl are no m a n s q e tly d {sto g y, by e ” mo It ma r fo assumed s non us . r y y y, the e e, be as an absohite andto some exten t a demon {fjgstrable truth that the World of the Seen is ' m yadad by the worldof the Unseen that s rea ms n er n ra e ndare com the e two l i t pe et t , a plementary to each other ; that the Unseen is the plan e of causes ; the Seen the plane of ff ma a so assume as a mon e ects. It y l be d de strable truth that man is an inhabitant of or s B hi s ca na ur both these w ld . y s phy i l t e he is related to the world of the Seen ; by his spiritual n ature to the world of the ns n . a n ma assume a our U ee Ag i , it y be d th t o n of artur in an r a es ma e of p i t dep e, y el tive ti t r a i nifi nces f fe and ro ress the g e t s g ca o li p g , should be made from the spiritual and not from s cal as and a our usua the phy i b is, th t l s ma s r vers n s are all wron and e ti te , e i g thi , g l3 « ., a re to a an on as or d lf - be b d ed, the w l 01 se olay j ship aban dons old and un true theories in ma ma s or s n c In a r the r a the tic cie e . wo d e l, d d d d d 5 th e Unseen while the plan e 05 the Seen is th e ru m n ar x e di e t y, the e e p ri m n a The r a on att an e t l . el ti er d th e former is perhaps n ot unlike the relation between childhood an dman hood; simply 3 he r su of o u o ar ro r To s ea t e lt ev l ti n y p g ess. p lf in n of one who m ans of the pity gly, the , by e change we call death has passed on in to the n is mu as a i s ou com Unsee , ch if ch ld h ld miserate a ma n caus n e had ar be e, i d ed, he g at ma ur rived t ity . er is a ou a s e an a mos Now if th e b t , lik t here an r r a minter enetratin our own p , othe e l p g andin the closest relation of magn etic in ter h n our or on e c a ge with w ld, with which we are in a perpetual con dition of action andt e action ; on e whose in habitan ts are our friends who a us ft as in a m s r us wa h ve j t le , th t y te io y os n a ur has fo a s arres the at wh e t e , r ge , ted m n r s am tention of a , and which the Ch i t c e W dBeaut ul l4 The orl . c if ° ‘ o — t t . e 1ni ht ma n n to us if is ha B g ke k ow , th h ' ru one is not a fa of tremen t eoiy is a t e , it ct ous im rtance of fair r m n ma d po , ly ove whel i g g n it d not n r arran and u e ? Does it , i deed, e ge readjust all our preconceived conceptions of The accepted Christian faith has largely been the belief m the immortality of the soul fllroug h faith in Jesus the conviction that rms was in som m s rious a ndunr a fi , e y te eve led a rin in man a sur e w y, a p ciple th t viv d the ea of the b an d a n ar d th ody, th t, whe p ted from it was a n n n ar r r a ons , t ke i to e e el ti with God but or r was unre ea an d ; how, whe e, v led a ue The on oss e c n so a n v g .