The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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 In this first age the gifts were greatly diversified among the members, some receiving one thing, perhaps only a part of a gift, while others manifested an entirely different power as a result of contacting the higher essence. In this first age the gifts were greatly diversified among the members, some receiving one thing, perhaps only a part of a gift, while others manifested an entirely different power as a result of contacting the higher essence.
  
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 It must be remembered that much of this great knowledge and power has been lost to the churches of the present day. When the early christian church was installed as a part of the secular governmental regime, it began from that moment to be used for selfish purposes and it gradually lost its gifts, its great universal manifestations. Hence today the church holds an ancient ritualistic and ceremonial form which is almost entirely devoid of potency,—an age-old symbology which is practically shorn of its vitality, except what is established from the contact of its members gathered in social communion. They have It must be remembered that much of this great knowledge and power has been lost to the churches of the present day. When the early christian church was installed as a part of the secular governmental regime, it began from that moment to be used for selfish purposes and it gradually lost its gifts, its great universal manifestations. Hence today the church holds an ancient ritualistic and ceremonial form which is almost entirely devoid of potency,—an age-old symbology which is practically shorn of its vitality, except what is established from the contact of its members gathered in social communion. They have
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