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EXPERIENCE OF THE EGO
All experience in the lower lives is the partial
reflection upon the lower planes of that which is above, and
interpreted by the mind according to its stage of development.
“Christ comes into the world from without, to bestow himself by a
presentation. He is a new premise, that could not be reasoned, but
must first be, and then can be received only by faith. When he is so
received or appropriated, He is, of course, experienced or known by
experiment; in that manner verified, he that believeth hath the
witness in himself. The manner, therefore, of this divine
experience, called faith, is strictly Baconian. And the result is an
experimental knowledge of God, or an experimental acquaintance with
God, in the reception of his supernatural communications. Which
knowledge, again, or acquaintance, is, in fact, revelation within.”
— H. Bushnell, *Nature and the Supernatural*, p. 367.
“I say that this continuous quest, this unceasing pursuit of an
elusive satisfaction, is not a fruitless thing. God not only ordains
it, but secures that it shall fulfil a spiritual object. That object
is to educate the soul to understand the true nature of eternal
reality by experiencing and rejecting everything that falls short of
it. Divine perfection has many facets, if I may so express it, and
we can only realise what that perfection is by becoming conformed to
it ourselves under its every aspect. To do this means that we have
to transcend, outgrow, leave behind everything less than the
perfection of Christ on every side of his divinely human nature.
That is what our earthly discipline is for, and there is no reason
to believe that that discipline ends with the moment of our passing
into another world at the change called death.” — R. J. Campbell,
Serm., *The Ceaseless Quest*.
“The truth from which we start is this, that so far as the life of
this world is concerned, every spiritual operation has its physical
basis, in close connection with which it lives its life and does its
work. The growth of the tree is a mysterious and spiritual power.
There must be black earth and the brown seed, or nothing comes. What
growth‑power ever made manifestation of itself, creating out of
nothing, in the air, a tree that had no history and no progenitor?
The material is first, and then the spiritual.” — Phillips Brooks,
*Mystery of Iniquity*, p. 245.
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