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Remember
The remembrance supper is the emblem of the bestowal ministry of the Spirit of Truth. It is also a symbol of our emergence from the bondage of ceremonialism and selfishness into the spiritual joy of brotherhood and fellowship. [Note: the Spirit of Truth is the spirit of Jesus which was bestowed upon all believers after his resurrection.]
Upon all such occasions (a remembrance supper), the Master is really present and his spirit fraternizes with our indwelling Father-Spirit.
Jesus to his disciples: 'And so I give you a new commandment, that you love one another even as I have loved you. And by this will all mankind know that you are my disciples if you thus love one another as I have loved you.'
Jesus: 'If you abide in me and my words live in you, you will be able to commune freely with me, and then can my living Spirit so infuse you that you may ask whatsoever my Spirit wills and the Father will grant us our petition.'
'Prayer is a way of taking God's way, an experience of learning how to recognize and execute the Father's will.'
'You are in this world but your lives are not to be world-like. I have chosen you 'out of the world' to represent the spirit of another world even to this.'
"With the coming of the Spirit of Truth"
'With the coming of the Spirit of Truth all the children of light will be drawn toward one another. And my Father and I will be able to live in the souls of each one of you, and also in the hearts of all other men who love us and make that love real in their experiences by loving one another even as I am now loving you.'
This new teacher is the spirit of living and growing truth, expanding, unfolding, and adaptive truth.
Divine truth is a spirit discerned and living reality. Living truth is dynamic and can enjoy only an experiential existence in the human mind.
Truth is a spiritual reality value experienced only by spirit-endowed beings who function on supermaterial levels of universe consciousness, and who, after the realization of truth, permit its spirit of activation to live and reign within their souls.
'Love, unselfishness, must undergo a constant and living re-adaptive interpretation of relationships in accordance with the leading of Spirit of Truth. Love must grasp the ever changing concept of the highest cosmic good of the individual who is loved. And such love goes on to strike this same attitude to all individuals who could possibly be influenced by one spirit-led mortal's love for his fellows.
The golden rule and the teaching of non-resistance cannot be dogmatized; they can only be comprehended by living them in accordance with the interpretation of the Spirit of Truth who directs the loving contact of one human being with another.
'When the new teacher comes, then shall this Spirit of Truth lead each of you abroad to labor for the kingdom.'
'God is no respector of persons; in the sight of God, all are equal, all believers are the children of God.'
'When the new teacher comes let him teach you the poise of compassion and that sympathetic tolerance which is born of sublime confidence in me and of perfect submission to the Father's will.'
Our chores
'Dedicate your life to demonstrating the combined human affection and divine dignity of the God-knowing disciple.'
'As far as is in your power live long on Earth that your life of many years may be fruitful in souls won for the heavenly kingdom.'
'To him who is God-knowing there is no such thing as common labor or secular toil. All earthly labor is sacred and is a service--even to God the Father.'
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