and mode its realisation of union with its Divine Source, then it follows that the logical root of healing must be in the removal of the sense of separation --- the removal, that is, of that inverted conception of our relation to the Spirit of Life which is "sin" --- and the replacing of it by the right conception in accordance with which we shall more and more fully reflect the true image of "the Father" or Parent Spirit.
When we see this, we begin to apprehend more clearly the meaning of St Paul's words, "There is now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, which walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit" (Rom. 8:1).
Life in the Unseen
Again, there is another phase of this subject which we cannot afford to neglect. Although, as it appears to me, there are grounds for supposing that the present resurrection of the body --- its transmutation while in the present life into a body of another order, like to the resurrection body of Christ, is not beyond the bounds of possibility, still this supreme victory of the Life-Principle is not a thing of general realisation; and so we are confronted by the question, What happens on the other side when we get there? I have treated this question at some length in my The Creative Process in the Individual [see Chapter 8 --- Ed.], but I would here refer to it chiefly in connection with the subject of the forgiveness of sin.
Now if, as I apprehend, the condition of consciousness
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