HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS Part 3

The wisdom of the fathers

HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS Part 3

Now in order for us to hear what the Spirit says, we must be a spiritual being, with our spiritual nature vitalized, and illuminated, so that we can recognize things in the spiritual world, just as readily and vividly, as our inward senses recognizes the phenomena of the material world.

When our inward spirits are thoroughly purified, and filled with the indwelling Comforter, it becomes by far the dominant and controlling part of our whole being. Persons who live on the plane of the animal nature, regard the body and its senses as all-powerful. But persons who have their soulish nature enlarged, and exercised, and their minds greatly illuminated, and educated, come to realize that the mind is greater than the body.

But when the spirit is thoroughly purified, and supernaturalized by the great floods of pure love and divine light, it arises to an altitude of strength and dominion, over all the reasoning faculties and the bodily senses. It is in this condition that the imagination and reasoning and propensities of the mind and body are brought in subjection to the lofty and serene Christ-life, which is spoken of by the apostle.

(from "Steps to the Throne" by George D. Watson)