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 God—only through His manifestation in Christ. Yet these two separate manifestations of body and soul are not separated in fact, only in appearance; they act as one, and are one, as our bodies and souls are one being.

Jesus sometimes spoke as if he had a consciousness perfectly at one with the Father, and then again entirely distinct from that of the Father; but we can understand how that is because we have an interior consciousness into which we come and from which we speak; and then again we are immersed, as it were, in the things of sense,—of the outward world,—and we feel our separateness from the things of the spirit. This interior consciousness becomes more and more clear in our own case as the interior life is more clearly developed and we act more deﬁnitely from it. It is obscured as we give way to the darkening processes of sin. We all have this duality of consciousness, or consciousness according to our state as if on two different planes of being. We can become a Mr. Hyde or a Dr. Jekyll, according as we develop our lives, and we are as distinctly on one plane or the other in consciousness as the character in Robert Louis Stevenson's book. This