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70 In the fourteenth chapter, one of the most important chapters of the whole book, Chelc̄icky̍ sums up in eloquent words the core of his conviction that "Christ's commandment of love could make one multitude out of a thousand worlds, one heart, and one soul. It will lead man into the fullest life, it will make him most precious to God, and man to man will be a gainagain [sic]!"

God is the end, love is the means. That is the rule of Christ's kingdom whose earthly image is the Church. Christ is the true head of the Church; "the beginning of his kingdom is at the end of men's sins" and his law is love.

It is an apotheosis of free will and it functions only when man responds through personal discipline" to the divine agape̍. The Church comprises all righteous Christians gathered in the Net of Faith by the apostles.As long as Christ was the sole ruler of the apostolic Church – that is,–  Chap. XIV, p.83*.

Chap. XXIX, p.136*.

Chap. XXIX, p.138*f.

Chap. XI, p.57*.

Chap. XI, p.58*

Chap. XXXIV, p.153*.

Chap. XXXIV, p.153*.

Chap. II, p.14*.

Chap. II, p.16*.