====== The Inner Life ====== == THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | APRIL 1934 == ---- This being the renewing and restoring period when life pushes itself forth into larger moulds for wider expression, naturally gives opportunity for all those who have co-operated with it and who seek no longer to interfere. Such are approaching discipleship, and such at Easter time may blossom forth, even as the pure white Easter lilies, fitting symbols of those who have attained their proper growth. But do not forget that all this is leading up to and preparing for that far greater initiation—the “Crucifixion” of the lower nature—the death of the self in preparation for its resurrection from the tomb of matter as the glorified Christ-Self. Try to realize fully that this life that all nature is feeling so big within itself is the life of God—that which IS and grows all things that have form and life, and there is nothing really dead, for that which IS cannot but be alive. And this life of God in manifestation is actually His Love, which is both the cause and reason of all being. And His Love as we know is His Holy Spirit—His beloved Son—the Christ, sent into the world to redeem it and to lift it once more back into Oneness with His Consciousness. Therefore the yearly crucifixion and resurrection we see and feel in nature is but to recall to us and definitely to show us what our great Exemplar and Master taught by His Life and words—that if we would follow Him we must go through the same crucifixion of self to win the resurrection of Christ—to express in our life the fullness of His Life within us, which is the life of God, our Father, unfolding us to the same fruitage He manifested in Jesus the Christ. —From the Fifth Paper. {{ :3404-19.jpg |}} ---- //⥳ [[i_am_the_ressurection_and_the_life_2|previous page]] // | // [[the_soul_leaving_the_body|next page]] ⥴ //