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Memes may help in keeping essential concepts to the forefront. An example--the events of September last have highlighted the terrorist madness that threatens the whole world. The threat of terrorism becoming a permanent institution can only be forestalled by spiritualization of the human race. But what does spiritualization really imply? Being an abstract concept, it cannot be precisely defined. Jesus illustrated it thus:
"It will not be so much by the words you speak as by the lives you live that men will know you have been with me and have learned of the realities of the kingdom."
Jesus' life is the perfect meme for the meaning of spiritualization.
But care is required to ensure that we do not deceive ourselves. If concepts and ideas, such as those that follow, conflict with the way we actually live our personal lives, we, like the Quakers, will also fail.
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