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 spoken now to His church; and this wonderful and beautiful assurance, "There be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the kingdom of God," may be verified at this day, if the church will ascend the mountain and pray. Her inmost consciousness will be opened, and she will see the Lord. And His Divine humanity is the "kingdom of God," in which He "shall come with the glory of the Father and the holy angels."

Man has so long been submerged in the sensual and natural that he shrinks from his own spiritual consciousness; he almost thinks it sin to strive to see the kingdom of God before he has tasted of death. He accepts the revelations of the spiritual world, and believes the doctrines communicated from God, and yet thinks that, while he lives upon the earth, his interior consciousness must be closed.

O long as man is immersed in falses of doctrine and evils of life, all influx into his interiors is from hell: hence, the Lord, in His merciful providence, closed the spiritual consciousness of man. But when, through truth of doctrine and the good of life, man again comes into an orderly state of being, so that the interior influx is from heaven, he will be