The infinite in trinity and unity

Preface

In many sections of the world there are children of God who are looking for the end of the world to come to pass. They think they see many prophecies pointing to it. That the great majority laugh at them and regard their prophecies as but a repetition of like prophecies in previous ages, which have failed, does not shake them in their belief. It only strengthens their belief, because of what Christ said, foretelling that "As in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall the coming of the Son of man be." Matt. 24:38, 39.

This is not a book upon prophecy, although the author regards it as leading toward, if not right into, the second coming of Christ in ways not expected. But it is a book upon LIVING, in which we perceive that all which is spoken in the Bible concerning things which must come to pass before the end of the world, is a general prophecy also of what shall come to pass in a figurative way in the life of each individual who comes into the best upon earth which God has foretold for him. It is "the kingdom of God within you" as Christ says, by which, when we enter fully, we shall experience, not long for, "all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ," as Paul says. We perceive that amongst His people everywhere Jehovah is calling many upon that higher plane of Godly living which neither individuals nor assemblies have yet experienced. God's call today is to both individuals, and to assemblies representing His spiritual Body, to enter this inheritance which is for them.

The peculiar unrest in the church and in the world will no doubt continue until a people have responded to His call. After that, who knows what, so great are His ways? Those who are reaching out for His greatest heaven in their own lives will welcome this book as a gleam of light to make more clear the pathway.

Introduction

"Growing Old Together" — The Angel's Visit — How Heaven Reached Earth— Christ More Beautiful — The Book not a Theory, but Practical— How it is Sold 9-17

CHAPTER I. "Thou Shalt Love."

Why Israel Could not Obey the First Commandment — Why the "One Lord" Appears to Man as a Trinity — Obedience in Love First on the Day of Pentecost — Why the Pentecostal Baptism is Necessary For Us to Love God — Distinction Between The Baptism OF the Holy Ghost and The Baptism WITH the Holy Ghost— "Perfect Love" and not "Tongues" the Unerring Bible Evidence of the Latter — God a Trinity of Self-renunciation 19-37

CHAPTER II. "Who His Own Self Bare Our Sins."

When God Shall be "All And In All"— When He Was "All And In All" Before the Creation — When the Son was "Begotten of the Father" — Why Creation was Impossible Except Through Christ — Why None Can Enter Heaven Except Through Christ — Why and When Satan First Manifested Himself in Heaven — Satan's Probable First Conversation With God — What it Cost God to Cast Him Out of Heaven — Man's Creation Impossible Until Satan Was Cast Out — Why Man Can not get Away From God — Why the Jews had to Reject Christ— The Real Christ Whom They will Accept as Readily as the Gentiles— Why They Could not be Won to Christ Before 38-56

CHAPTER III. "If We Suffer We Shall Also Reign."

How to Make Heaven's Power Ours — Not in All Lines at Once — The Power Perfect in Each "Gift of the Spirit" — ^Each One's Place as a "Member" of The "Body" — The Evil of Transgressing Upon Another's Member's Sphere — Much "Teaching" Without the "Gift" of Teaching a Common Error — The Secret of "Esteeming Others Better Than Themselves" — The Necessity of Self-renunciation, and What It is 57-69

CHAPTER IV. "The Life Was The Light Of Men."

The Seen Christ— His Life Now In Us— The Unseen Christ in The Father — His Life In Us Also — The Unseen The Greater— Revealed by the Holy Ghost — Christ Had No Ecclesiastical Authority — Ecclesiastical Authority a Handicap to Living The Perfect Life of Christ — Why Ecclesiastical Authority Is Necessary — Bishops, Pastors, Deacons, Etc., Are Appointed by the Holy Ghost — Necessity of Those in Authority Counselling With Those Without Authority— When Authority Over Devils, Disease, Etc. is Perfect— The Difference Between Authority Belonging to The Seen and to The Unseen 70-87

CHAPTER V. The Father's Life

Christ in the Father Wholly in The Unseen — From the Father's Standpoint All Things Appear Perfect, and "Why — ^When and Why Satan Can Not "Touch" Us— The Father's Life In Us One of Overcoming Love — Common Errors Which Keep us Out of The Father's Life — Why Women Are not at Their Best in Authority — How We May Lose the Perfect Use of Any "Gift of the Spirit"— When and How We may possess All Things in This Life — When and Why We Must Give All Things to Others 88-105

CHAPTER VI. "And They Shall See His Face."

Why Our Freedom Purchased by Christ is not Manifest — A Greater Christ Than We Have Known — ^A Father Whom Many Are Smiting Even in The Name of Christ — The Father's Face Hid Behind our Imperfections — His Humility Greater Than Men Saw in Christ — Our Greater Glory Being Worked out Through Imperfect Appearances Now Borne by the Father — The "Scapegoat" — How We Form Individuality for Heaven — ^Why, Without Overcoming, We Should All be "Like Peas in a Pod" in Heaven— We Can See Only the Father's "Hands" and His "Back Parts" Now — How to Get the Best Vision of Him— How Christ "Hath Abolished Death". .. .106-128

CHAPTER VII. "Not By The Sight Of The Eye, Neither The Hearing Of The Ear."

We Have Both Natural And Spiritual Senses — They Relate, Respectively, to the Seen and the Unseen — Christ Judged Wholly By Spiritual Senses — ^^Spiritual Life Too Fine to be Judged by Natural Senses — The Source of all Divisions Amongst Children of God — The Conversion of Natural Into Spiritual Senses — ^AU Knowledge Leads to Knowing God, if Rightly Received — How to Use the Natural Senses to The Highest Joy — "Sensing" God's Life in others, and a Caution— God's Highest Not in Others 129-138

CHAPTER VIII. "Neither Do I Condemn Thee."

The Natural Senses Lead to Wrong — ^If Many Who Sin Understood the Spiritual Senses They Would Not Sin— God Knows This and Looks Upon the Heart — David, a Man After God's Heart, Understood in This Light — ^Why Harlots Were Not Condemned By Christ — ^Why and How Such May Become Precious in His Service — The First Marriage — The Real Sin of the Flesh — The Israelites Were Permitted to Drink Wine at Their Feast — ^When Men Dare Not Approach God, and Why — The Church More Anxious to Preserve Her Own Reputation Than to Save Souls Deepest in Hell 139-154

CHAPTER IX. "Nothing Shall Be Impossible To You."

Adam's Possibilities Had He Obeyed God — ^His Power Restored to us Through Christ — How We Lose Spiritual ''Touch" With God, as Adam Did — The Symbolical Account of His "Fall" Applicable To Us— The Forbidden Fruit to Us— An Exposition of, Is. 4:1— Woman's

Place of Highest Ministryr-The Call to MEN of GOD— The Place Attraction in The Flesh Should Occupy — Man Responsible Not Woman — Men Have Not Been Men in the Church as Women Have Been Women — Not Woman's Fault That She Rules Man — When and Why Marriage Should be Abstained From— Christian Evolution— A Home for "Nameless Infants" and for "'Cast Outs" — What They Signify Preparatory to Christ's Soon Coming — Christ Coming in Ways Not Looked For 155-184

CHAPTER X. "Not As Man Seeth."

God's Ways Not Man's Ways— The "Social Feature" in the Church a Curse to Advancement — Taught By All Nature — Why There is Success in Spite of It— How Self in Christ Was Crucified— When We are Crucified After the Same Manner — God's Love and Human Different— Woman as Different From Man Spiritually as She is Naturally — ^What Both Must do to have the Greatest Possible Happiness — Woman Man's Leader Naturally — What God Requires of Men — The Difference Between the Sexes Traced to Their Creation 185-210

CHAPTER XI. "Our God Is A Consuming Fire."

Overcoming Death — Translation — Crucifixion of Self — How God Consumes Self in His Love — Health From Heaven Taking the Place of Self in Man — God's Love Consumes Disease in Us — Heaven's Health Must be Used for Others — Hell a Necessity — ^How All Are Saved Through Christ— When "Death and Hell Shall be Cast Into the Lake of Fire"— What is "The Lake of Fire"— .What Is the "Second Death" — When God's Love and Not Self Interprets "Everlasting Torment" — God's Love Consuming all Opposition to Him. . .211-233

CHAPTER XII. "Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear."

Perfect Love is Perfect God — God Not Divisible — ^When We Have God We Have all of Him— Why We Fail to Manifest God— Perfect Love is in The Unseen — How God makes Prophets and Workers of Miracles — Trying to Make Them of Many Who do not Know it — A Spiritual Bugle Call Today as Never Before — The Secret of Power in "Two and Two" Uniting — How To Give Freely Like God Gives — Why God Can Find His Own Gold— Freely Giving the Secret of Freely Receiving 234-260