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I came to you bearing the divine testimony, not alluring you with human wisdom but with the power of the Spirit. Truly 'we speak wisdom among them that are perfect,' but it is no human wisdom. 'We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world' began, and which none even of the princes of this world know. The things of that wisdom are beyond men's thinking, 'but God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit ... the deep things of God,' 'which the Holy Ghost teacheth.'[64] These are spiritual things, to be discerned only by the spiritual man, in whom is the mind of Christ. 'And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.... Ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal.' 'As a wise master-builder[65] I have laid the foundation,' and 'ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you.' 'Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the Mysteries of God.'
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the
human
the
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known only to the
human
man, spoken of only among the
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wisdom from which the non-
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the
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the
human
were excluded, known to the
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the
human
by the unveiling, had been
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and hence his
human
; all might know of the
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[66] Of this Mystery, he repeated to the Colossians, he was
human
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; not to the world, nor even to Christians, but only to the Holy Ones. To them was unveiled
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; and what was it?
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Christ _in you_ --a significant phrase, which we shall see, in a moment, belonged to the life of the Initiate; thus ultimately must every man learn the wisdom, and become
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[67] These Colossians he bids pray
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[68] a passage to which S. Clement refers as one in which the apostle
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[69] So also he writes to his loved Timothy, bidding him select his deacons from those who hold
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that great
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Mystery of Godliness,
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This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, [71] the solemn benediction of the Initiator, who admitted the candidate; but not alone was the Initiator present:
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Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, by the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery, [72] of the Elder Brothers. And he reminds him to lay hold of that
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[73]--the vow of the new Initiate, pledged in the presence of the Elder Brothers, and of the assembly of Initiates. The knowledge then given was the sacred charge of which S. Paul cries out so forcibly:
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O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust [74]--not the knowledge commonly possessed by Christians, as to which no special obligation lay upon S. Timothy, but the sacred deposit committed to his trust as an Initiate, and essential to the welfare of the Church. S. Paul later recurs again to this, laying stress on the supreme importance of the matter in a way that would be exaggerated had the knowledge been the common property of Christian men:
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Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me.... That good thing which was committed unto thee, keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us [75]--as serious an adjuration as human lips could frame. Further, it was his duty to provide for the due transmission of this sacred deposit, that it might be handed on to the future, and the Church might never be left without teachers:
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The things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses --the sacred oral teachings given in the assembly of Initiates, who bore witness to the accuracy of the transmission--
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Let us, therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded --he had not yet
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was indeed not yet wholly
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for he had not yet won Christ, he had not yet reached the
human
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and he was striving, he says,
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[77] For this was the Initiation that liberated, that made the Initiate the Perfect Master, the Risen Christ, freeing Him finally from the
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from the humanity within the circle of generation, from the bonds that fettered the soul to gross matter. Here again we have a number of technical terms, and even the surface reader should realise that the
human
here spoken of cannot be the ordinary resurrection of the modern Christian, supposed to be inevitable for all men, and therefore obviously not requiring any special struggle on the part of any one to attain to it. In fact the very word
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would be out of place in referring to a universal and inevitable human experience. S. Paul could not avoid _that_ resurrection, according to the modern Christian view. What then was the resurrection to attain which he was making such strenuous efforts? Once more the only answer comes from the Mysteries. In them the Initiate approaching the Initiation that liberated from the cycle of rebirth, the circle of generation, was called
human
he shared the sufferings of the Saviour of the world, was crucified mystically,
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and then attained the resurrection, the fellowship of the glorified Christ, and, after, that death had over him no power.[78] This was
human
towards which the great Apostle was pressing, and he urged
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The Mystical Christ. The Initiate was no longer to look on Christ as outside himself:
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Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more.
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human
[80] Then they were the
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to whom reference has already been made, and Christ was the Saviour to whom they looked for help, knowing Him
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But when they had conquered the lower nature and were no longer
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then they were to enter on a higher path, and were themselves to become Christ. This which he himself had already reached, was the longing of the Apostle for his followers:
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My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed _in you_. [81] Already he was their spiritual father, having
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[82] But now
human
he was as a parent, as their mother to bring them to the second birth. Then the infant Christ, the Holy Child, was born in the soul,
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[83] the Initiate thus became that
human
Little Child ; henceforth he was to live out in his own person the life of the Christ, until he became the
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growing
human
[84] Then he, as S. Paul was doing, filled up the sufferings of Christ in his own flesh,[85] and always bore
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[86] so that he could truly say:
human
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. [87] Thus was the Apostle himself suffering; thus he describes himself. And when the struggle is over, how different is the calm tone of triumph from the strained effort of the earlier years:
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I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness. [88] This was the crown given to
human
of whom it is said by the ascended Christ:
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I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall go no more out. [89] For after the
human
Resurrection
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he proceeds to give the mystical interpretation.[90] Referring to the escape of the Israelites from Egypt, he speaks of the Red Sea as a baptism, of the manna and the water as spiritual meat and spiritual drink, of the rock from which the water flowed as Christ.[91] He sees the great mystery of the union of Christ and His Church in the human relation of husband and wife, and speaks of Christians as the flesh and the bones of the body of Christ.[92] The writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews allegorises the whole Jewish system of worship. In the Temple he sees a pattern of the heavenly Temple, in the High Priest he sees Christ, in the sacrifices the offering of the spotless Son; the priests of the Temple are but
human
of the heavenly priesthood serving in
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A most elaborate allegory is thus worked out in chapters iii.-x., and the writer alleges that the Holy Ghost thus signified the deeper meaning; all was