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DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL
A symbol of the natural man, that is, the
lower mental and emotional nature which rules over the
little-developed qualities of the soul.
"God's Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the
flesh, who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according
to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." -
Roм. i. 3, 4.
This represents the genealogy of the indwelling Christ after the
lower nature (the flesh),-the natural heredity, as it were. David "
is ruler of the lower nature (earth), and it is through this
condition of ruler-ship of matter in the soul that the Invisible is
embodied. The Christ cannot actually be manifested among men
excepting through a physical vehicle of sufficiently exquisite
responsiveness to enable It to incarnate and reveal its nature in
some degree. It must be borne in mind that the Christ is not
ultimated in the human race until the physical brain matter is
adapted to interpret the functionings which play upon it from Above.
In this explanation of "Jesus" is to be found the connection between
the supposed external or historic, and the inward or essential,
Christ.
"What are the conquests of David, or the greater conquests of
David's everlasting Son, over the kingdoms of the earth, but a
shadow of that inward conquest which Christ worketh over his enemies
within our souls, which is more valuable than the earth, and to
conquer which is a higher achievement than to subdue the kingdoms of
the earth? The soul is a thing for the Son of God to conquer, the
world is for Cæsar, or the son of Philip. The soul, the boundless
world of the soul to recover, to reconcile its warring powers, to
breathe the life of God over its chaotic wastes-this is a work
whereof all outward works are only fit to be the emblems; a work, in
the execution of which every spiritual man feels the going forth of
his Saviour conquering and to conquer." - ED. IRVING, Writings, Vol.
I. p. 403.
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See Also
BLIND MAN
CHRIST
EARTH
FLESH
INCARNATION
ISRAELITES
JONATHAN
MAN (natural)
RESURRECTION
ROCK OF SALVATION
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