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Bahá'í World Faith (`Abdu'l-Bahá's Section Only)
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THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST
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The body is composed, in truth, of corporeal elements and every
composition is necessarily subject to decomposition; but the spirit
is an essence, simple, pure, spiritual, eternal, perpetual and divine.
He who seeketh Christ from the point of view of His body hath,
in truth, debased Him and hath gone astray from Him; but he who
seeketh Christ from the point of view of His Spirit will grow from
day to day in joy, attraction, zeal, proximity, perception and vision.
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Thou hast then to seek the Spirit of Christ in this marvelous day.
The heaven whither Christ ascended is not an infinite space. His
heaven is much rather the kingdom of His Lord, the Munificent.
As He said, "The Son of Man is in heaven." It is known then that
His heaven is beyond the boundaries that surround existence and
that He is elevated for the people who adore.
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Pray God to ascend to this heaven, to taste of its food--and know
thou that the people have not understood to this day the mystery
of the Holy Scriptures. They believe that Christ was deprived of
His heaven when He was in this world, that He had fallen from the
heights of His elevation and that later He ascended to this elevated
pinnacle--that is to say, towards the heaven which doth not exist,
for there is only space. They expect that He will descend from this
heaven seated upon a cloud. They believe that there is in the
heavens a cloud upon which He will be seated and by which He
will descend; while, in reality, the clouds are vapors which rise
from the earth and which do not descend from the heavens. The
cloud mentioned in the Holy Scriptures is the human body, because
it is a veil for them, like a cloud, which prevents them from seeing
the Sun of Truth which is shining in the horizon of Christ.
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