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The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
— Incarnation
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
The most destructive criticism has not been able to dethrone Christ as the incarnation of perfect holiness. The waves of a tossing and restless sea of unbelief break at His feet, and He stands still the supreme model, the inspiration of great souls, the rest of the weary, the fragrance of all Christendom, the one divine flower in the garden of God.
The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.
The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.
I believe that through discipline, though not through discipline alone, we can achieve serenity, and a certain small but precious measure of the freedom from the accidents of incarnation, and charity, and that detachment which preserves the world which it renounces.
The most important lineage of reincarnation was derived from the basic Buddhist idea of rebirth — the concept of the reimbodiment of a saintly predecessor's existence in a reincarnation of the same being in a new appearance, discovered anywhere in a child born at the right time and recognized by the leading monks and Lamas.
