God is, and shall be, All in all. Father of
our brothers and sisters! thou wilt not be less glorious than we,
taught of Christ, are able to think thee. When thou goest into the
wilderness to seek, thou wilt not come home until thou hast found. It
is because we hope not for them in thee, not knowing thee, not knowing
thy love, that we are so hard and so heartless to the brothers and
sisters whom thou hast given us.
One word more: This love of our neighbour is the only door out of the
dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing
phosphorescences out of the walls, and blowing our own breath in our
own nostrils, instead of issuing to the fair sunlight of God, the sweet
winds of the universe. The man thinks his consciousness is himself;
whereas his life consisteth in the inbreathing of God, and the
consciousness of the universe of truth. To have himself, to know
himself, to enjoy himself, he calls life; whereas, if he would forget
himself, tenfold would be his life in God and his neighbours. The
region of man's life is a spiritual region.
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