The Impersonal Life

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 +The fallen man has not only to be redeemed by the Spirit of
 +Christ within his soul, but he has to be actually translated out of
 +the darkness of the outer mind and its selfish desires into the
 +Kingdom of God’s Son; and every department of his being, be-
 +ginning with his spirit, must actually be RE-CREATED stage by
 +stage by deliverance from the power of sin and death, the selfish
 +affections, is governed by the life of the first Adam, which is
 +fallen and corrupt; and (c) the mind and body are therefore open
 +in every department to the power of the Poisoner. Consequently
 +the Apostle John declares with blunt language that the “whole
 +world lieth in the evil one.” (I John 5:19).
 +
 +If the first creation was “fearfully and wonderfully made,” then
 +in truth the “re-creation” of the creature utterly sunk into the
 +animal-soul and the animal-flesh, and lifted again into the realm of
 +spirit to have spirit dominion over soul and body, is a wondrous
 +work, which only the Triune God could accomplish; the Father
 +giving to the Son in the soul, the Son giving His life and con-
 +sciousness to the mind; and all three then living as One in the
 +outer man, doing the Father’s work on earth even as in Heaven.
 +
 +That the Prince of Darkness resists every step of man’s de-
 +liverance from his thraldom is easy to understand, and it is neces-
 +sary that every follower of Christ should know clearly all the ele-
 +ments in the fallen creation which are open to his power.
 +
 +If this Prince of Hell fully controls the unregenerate man as
 +shown in the second chapter of Ephesians, there is also shown that
 +Christ Jesus makes alive those “who were dead” and raises them
 +up with Him to sit with Him in heavenly places.
 +
 +Then it is of vital importance that all turn to Christ in their
 +souls, and to Him alone, beseeching Him to quicken them with His
 +Spirit, that they may be lifted up and be with Him ever after-
 +ward, following only where He leads.
 +
 +These are high truths, and are principally for those whose soul
 +faculties have been quickened so that they are able to see, hear and
 +feel in the inner world of spirit. Such as shown above to be doubly
 +on the alert because, open to the illusions of the psychic realm where
 +dwell the spirits ruled by the Prince of Darkness, they are easily
 +caught in the snares laid for them, unless quickened by the Lord
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