18. We say then that, in the soul of the Christ, in his essences, is comprised the clear divinity, or the light of God, which has reconciled the anger in the source of the soul. Thus the light enlightens the soul, and the tincture is continually begotten of the soul, by the proceeding power. The fiat in the essences renders it seizable and palpable, and the holy ternary or the holy earth is the holy flesh: for God enlightens all in all in this body.
9. In effect, his terrestrial body is absorbed in God, although he never had an entirely terrestrial body like ours: for he was not of the seed of man; but we speak only of the[ «ai«ma6i7i/é] , and of the visibility for our eyes, according to which he is our brother; and he shall represent himself at the last judgment in our carnal form, and in the divine virtue, as a sovereign over all things: for all the powers are submitted to him, in the heaven and in this world, and he is a judge over all things, a prince of the life, and the dominator of the death.
10. It is why the celestial kingdom of his own body and of all his prince-throne, or of his principle, is a paradise in which the most blessed fruit rises in the power of God: for the holy spirit is the virtue of this class of vegetation, as the air is in this world. Thus the holy spirit is the air and the spirit of the soul in the Christ and all his children; for there is no other air in the heaven, in the body of the Christ, and God the father is all in all. Thus, there we live and are all in the
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2father in Christ, and no soul occupies itself in sounding the abyss 5 but we all live in the simplicity, in a great humility and a great love one for another 5 and we rejoice as children before their parents: also it is for this end that God created us.
II. Thus 5 my dear soul, seek and draw near to the Christ, then thou shalt attain the holy spirit who shall beget anew thy soul, and who shall enlighten thee, direct thee, conduct thee and manifest thee the Christ. Leave there the opinions and inventions of men; for the kingdom of God is near thee ( yes, it is entirely in thee, as Christ says himself, lue. 17 ) 5 and all that holds thee far from God, it is thy own incredulity, the bad works; to wit: the covetousness, the pride, the jealousy, the anger and the falsehood. In effect, when thou clothest thyself with these things, then thou art out of God, in the habit of the devil.
IX. But if thou strippest thyself of them, and if, by the desire of thy heart, thou enterest into the mercy of the Christ 9 then thou goest into the heaven, into God the father; thou walkest in the body of the Christ, in the pure element. The holy spirit sources thy soul; he conducts thee into all the truths; and the old man is only suspended to thee. Thou shalt break it at thy death; and, by thy love in Christ, thou shalt appease the anger of the father, in thy soul; thou shalt subdue it and take it prisoner; thou shalt flower with thy new man through the death, and it is with him that thou shalt appear at the last day.
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The gate of Babel, or else of the origin of the multitude of the sects and of the disputes upon the religion.
3i3. As to this quantity of sects and of disputes which exist upon the religion, when one considers whence they come and whence they derive, one sees it evidently, and that is found in the fact, in reality: for there are great wars and great revolts excited on the subject of the belief; and there rise on this occasion great envies and great hatreds 5 each pursues the other, because of his opinions: however because some one is not of the opinion of another, one must not say, for that, that he belongs to the demon; but what there is most miserable, is that that comes from the doctors of the schools of this world.
14. I will show thee their venom, simple man; for, see, each among the laics has the eyes upon them and thinks that a thing must be right since their priest has said it; he is the minister of God, he holds the place of God, and the holy spirit speaks by him. But Saint-Paul says: Prove the spirits; for one must not believe the doctrine of any one; and the Christ says: You shall know them by their works. In effect, a good tree bears good fruits, and a bad tree bears bad fruits 5 and he teaches us sincerely not to resist the prophecy which is of God, but to prove the doctor by his fruits.
i5. We speak not of the perfect works of the
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