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FLESH OF JESUS AS BREAD FROM HEAVEN
This symbol of the 'flesh" or "body" of the
indwelling Christ signifies the evolving Truth nature which implies
conformity of the outer nature (flesh) to the inner nature (spirit).
This outer truth-nature of Christ is then the same as the "bread of
God" which signifies the truth-substance of goodness which must be
assimilated by the qualities to give them eternal life.
"Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye
have not life in yourselves. . . As the living Father sent me, and I
live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live
because of me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven." -
JOHN vi. 53, 57, 58.
Except the qualities assimilate the outer Truth-nature of the Son of
God born of mind, and partake of his Divine life, they are of the
lower nature, dead, transitory. As the incarnate Christ below
proceeds from the heavenly Christ above, and the Divine life is one
life, so if a quality becomes permeated with that Life of
Reality-Truth-it is transmuted to higher planes and abides for ever.
This truth-substance of goodness is indeed the food of the soul
falling as manna from above.
"The symbol was as much a metaphor in the historical ages of
Egyptian history as are the metaphors of our own language. When the
Egyptian spoke of eating' his god, he meant no more than we do when
we speak of 'absorbing' a subject.' - SAYCE, Rel. of Anc. Egypt. and
Babyl., p. 244.
"Me he (mâm sah)' will devour in the next (world), whose flesh I eat
in this life; the wise declare this to be the real meaning of the
word 'flesh (mâmsah)." - Laws of Manu, V. 56.
This refers to the dissolution of the personality (me) when the
lower Self and the higher Self become one, and as the consciousness
rises to the causal-body in the "next world." The eating of the
"flesh" of "Svayambhu (the Self-existent)" is the partaking of the
Divine Life from within the soul.
"His true flesh and blood were his Life; and they truly eat his
flesh and drink his blood who partake of that divine Life."-MRS.
EDDY, Science and Health, p. 25.
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