CHAPTER VII.

ON MYSTERIES — GOD GIVES THEM HERE IN REALITY.

TT will be objected that, by this way, mysteries will not be made known. It is just the con-trary; they are given to the soul in reality. Jesus Christ, to whom it is abandoned, and whom it fol-lows as the Way, whom it hears as the Truths and who animates it as the Life, impressing Himself upon it, imparts to it His own condition.

To bear the conditions of Christ is something far greater than merely to consider those conditions. Paul bore the conditions of Christ on his body. " I bear in my body," he says, " the marks of the Lord Jesus" (Gal. vi. 17). But he does not say that he reasoned about them.

Often Christ gives in this state of abandonment views of His conditions in a striking manner. We must receive equally all the dispositions in which