The Dragon within Us
By Rev. Paul Booth, Pastor
Jeremiah 9: 1-11, Revelation 12: 1-4
Apocalypse Revealed 533
By Rev. Paul Booth, Pastor
Jeremiah 9: 1-11, Revelation 12: 1-4
Apocalypse Revealed 533
Do people today really accept the literal meaning of the book of Revelation? Statements like, 'I believe the Bible is the literal truth' falls short, for even the most sincere Christian does not believe that a literal dragon was revealed to John; or does he? Probably, even he would say that the dragon that John saw in Heaven was not a physical natural dragon, but was only symbolically an appearance of 'those things about to come to pass.' He would probably say that the dragon symbolizes something else. From this he can say, and we too, that the dragon John saw is an appearance that signifies something in the future that will come to pass. The dragon stands for something terrible that is about come upon mankind. What is it is the question?
Therefore, the first question is, what does the dragon signify? Today, there are churches busy presenting lectures to their congregations and to those in the community that will come attempting to explaining this very subject - the terrible event of the "great red dragon" depicted before "the woman clothed with the sun" ready to devour her child as she gives birth. Just what is the meaning of the Biblical dragon revealed in the book of Revelation; what does it symbolize or signify? One of the ideas propagated by those who try to explain the future the world is facing is that by the dragon is meant a worldwide system of government that is about to be set up - an evil attempt of man to rule the world. Usually, the idea is that this worldwide government is to develop out of organizations like the European Common Market, the UN, and other alliances between various nations. Of course, you can see that this sort of reasoning is mainly in Christian religion. This - the rationalizing of what the meaning of the dragon is - is not, in its self, such a terrible thing, after all these people do look upon the Word as the Truth coming from God, which it is. The dragon only appears to them as a symbol of an evil and false system that men use to take over the world to benefit from, and, in so doing, they feel takes away their religious freedom. These people, of course, are expecting Jesus Christ to return and be the King over this world. The problem with this is that it stems from human rationalization; it comes from man's own natural reasoning - from the understanding and from what has been stored in the memory. Thus, from such natural reasoning, God is left out, He isn't considered as being needed, after all they have their 'own' mind and believe they can think for themselves. Although they would disagree that God is left out. However, this human reasoning marinates 'as it were' into all their thoughts and fills their memory with 'self' or with the love of self. In other words, although they have the written Word, it is as dead to them, for they have generally rejected that it has an internal or spiritual sense. They may only admit that some words in it are to be understood symbolically, so they use their natural understanding to determine what is meant by such words as the "great red dragon" or other mystical beasts mentioned. Nevertheless, in so doing, they not only imagine that words such as 'dragon' and 'beasts with ten heads and horns coming up out of the sea and out of the earth' symbolize a world system that they believe is coming into power. But also the other parts of the Word become falsely understood. Thus, their doctrine becomes false. This, of course, leads them falsely and, thus, we have learned that they worship not one God, but three gods and make the Lord two. Now, most all will deny this, but one only has to read their doctrinal position stated in their various creeds, such as the Athanasian, Augustinian Confession, the Formula Concordiae, and the Nicene to see the dogmas of their belief.
Now, it is doctrine believed, that is, doctrine lived that makes the Church with man the Church and, if the doctrine is false, then that Church is a false Church. In fact, a false doctrine destroys the Church in the end, because the Lord cannot abide where there is falsities; for falsities lead to evils and separates the Church on earth from Heaven and, also, the person who believes in a false doctrine is separated from Heaven and the Lord. Yet, today, from all appearances, these churches seem as though they are still present and active. How can that be if their doctrine is false? If the Lord has established His New Church as it is taught in the Word and believed by those who are its members, then all the prior Churches must necessarily be vastated and their consummation or end has come. For, the Lord is the Lord of the one true Church, and not of many Churches, each one having and teaching a different false doctrine, each claiming what they teach is the truth. The Lord is not the bridegroom and husband of many brides and wives. So, the question remains what constitutes the True Church? Common sense would tell us that all the people in these devastated Churches are not all in falsities and evils, especially when one thinks of a person's innocence and of their desire to live a life of good, which many sincere people honestly try to do. For that fact, neither are all members in the Lord's New Church in the true new Church nor living according to the doctrine of that Church. There is no delemma in this line of reasoning, though there are many who believe that if one doesn't believe as they, that those who don't, will not enter Heaven or be saved. Evidently, the true Church is more than a congregation or society of members joined together in worship. However, if we think of the person, who lives according to the Word, as living from the Lord, then the Truth in Him from the Lord makes the Church a true Church. Then that truth from the Lord in him may well not be closed to him, for the Lord has said, abide in my love and I will abide in you, even as the Father abides in me and I in Him. The true Church is within man, for if the Lord is the Husband of the Church, who is the wife, then isn't the Lord, as Husband, conjoined with the Church, as wife? Then the Church within a person has abiding within him the Lord and this because he or she 'follows', that is, does well according to the commandments? Therefore, does not the Lord with man make or establish the Church in man?
Now, in the text we read of a "woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet" (Rev. 12: 1). When we see the woman as signifying the Church, and this is not difficult to see, for any Christian Church teaches this, then we come to understand why the Lord as Husband conjoins Himself with the wife as the Church. He or the Lord, in a person, conjoins good with truth as in a marriage. These two qualities, when they are in man as his understanding and will, make or constitute the Church and it is a true Church, and such a Church is then, of necessity on earth. Being "clothed with the sun" has reference to that truth and goodness, which are meant the Lord's love and wisdom, which 'as it were' covers the Church that is within man. One can understand that simply by comparing the Lord's Love to the sun in that heat and light proceed from the natural sun to the earth as does the Lord's love and wisdom flow from Him to angels in Heaven and to mankind on earth. By the 'moon under her feet' only shows that the Church is about to come upon earth. You may see this from the fact just mentioned concerning the 'sun' corresponding to the Lord. As anyone can learn and know that the moon receives its light from the sun and is reflected. Thus, man's intelligence and faith, even his love or charity, is only possible from the Lord's wisdom and truth, and in truth, what love and charity and what truth or faith a man has is the Lord's with him. All this becomes, to those who understand that their life truly comes from the Lord daily, evidence that there is an internal sense to the Word. In other words, a man can, now, rationally come to understand the mysteries that so long have been hidden within the Word; he can become intelligent from the Lord; he does not have to remain ignorant of such truths; he does not need to reason from his self intelligence, which in the end becomes folly and ends in insanity. And, from such enlightenment man can receive charity from the Lord and, thus, is conjoined to the Lord and becomes the Lord's Church. What we see here by the "women clothed with the sun" is a new Church in Heaven and its doctrine is about to descend to earth so that the Lord remain present with mankind. Why is the Church here first in Heaven and not on earth and only about to come upon earth? Well, even from a literal understanding of Revelation, we learn that John was taken in spirit up into Heaven. So, what is shown him there about to happen is spiritual, not natural. In other words, what takes place happens in the Spiritual world and not in the natural world. It is a revelation of things to come, and mainly it is about a new Church about to be established and its doctrine given to mankind. In explanation, all true Churches have an internal and an external. So, first, it is seen in Heaven by John and he records it for mankind so that truth is available by which comes faith and by this faith, when it becomes active in ones life, charity or love becomes a part of that person's life. These two, when conjoined in man, make the Church in him a true Church. A closer study of the woman seen by John in Heaven reveals in detail why it is a new Church and soon is to come upon earth.
One of the obvious things seen is that the woman was with child and was about to deliver. This is meant that a new doctrine of life is about to come forth, for a man-child, like the Lord signifies the truth and, of course, truth, when lived, becomes one's doctrine or life. Here, one only need recall that the Lord tells us that we must be born again, that is, there must be a conception and a bringing forth of this new life in man. Of course, a man already has natural life, so it is a spiritual life that is here meant. Think, what is it that brings about spiritual life with man? Of course, it is not easy at first to come to the truth of a new spiritual life. What is needed is a new doctrine, and the old and false doctrines within man greatly resist any such change; they - falsities and evils - want to lead man, thus the person's evil will wants to continue ruling. So, in retrospect, a new Church comes into being and it is a Spiritual Church that is in Heaven and from that Church comes a new doctrine to man on earth, that is, to his natural mind. And, in that conception and birth there is the "pain of deliverance" of that a new doctrine. So, the doctrine or the truths that will become that Church's existence on earth with mankind will be a difficult reception. Just look at what was ready and waiting for the new doctrine to come down to man so it will be devoured and destroyed - the dragon.
For, we read that John saw another sign in Heaven: a "great red dragon". Now, here we begin to learn what the dragon really signifies, and it's not a New World system of government. Let us ask, what are the essentials that make a true Church? Isn't it the belief that there is one God in essence in one person and that charity and faith are one like essence and its form? And, doesn't a person need to live according to the Commandments, which are: that evils are not to be done, that we are to reject them as sins against God, and that in doing charity and believing truths a man is in essence and its form? What all this show us is that the essence of God is One and that One is seen in one Man - the Lord Jesus Christ - who from Himself became the Divine Human. What did we say were the false doctrines that were reasoned from one's own understanding? Is it not the worship of three gods in a Trinity of persons and that a belief or a faith without charity saves? In such a belief, the essentials of a church are perverted. Yet, even today, there are those who may tell you that their faith is a belief in one God and that there is only one Lord, even though they pray to three different persons. However, the Word teaches we are to consider whether or not this trinity is truly meant. By merely listening to their prayers one can tell what they really believe. Regularly they pray that the Father for the sake of the Son to send the Holy Spirit. Hasn't a person, who prays this prayer, made God into three in his thought, praying to God, the Father as one god and for the sake of the Son as another, the second, and concerning the Holy Spirit as yet a third? And, indeed, this formula is taught in their creeds. When such a persons thinks of the Lord's Human alone, and not at the same time of the Lord's Divine, he or she, in fact, makes the Lord in to two. That is what he means by praying 'for the sake of the Son' is His Human who suffered the cross and when speaking of the risen Lord he means the second person of the Trinity. He thus, divides the Lord into two.
This is what the dragon, which would devour the woman's offspring, which means in the internal sense that the doctrine comes from the New Church in Heaven, means. Now, since all the Reformed Church's believe this doctrine of salvation by faith without charity, then the dragon is called 'great', for the Reformed are many and, as it were, over many people. They divide God into three persons; they make faith alone saving. We see that these two false beliefs devastate the Church. They take away truths and goods from man. The dragon represents such false doctrines. You might wonder why a dragon represents this. Let us look in the Word to see why. "I will make Jerusalem a heap, a habitation of dragons, and I will reduce the cities of Judah to a waste" (Jer. 9: 11), and "Thou hast broken us in a place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death" (Ps 44: 19). Aren't these verses speaking about the Church's devastation? It is seen as the reason why Jerusalem lay a heap. By Jerusalem is meant the Church. Here, the dragon is used to represent such a doctrine that teaches a man falsities, and which turn him away from the truth concerning God so that he worships false gods, and causes him to reject the works of the Law as not saving. He thinks that his faith alone saves him, that his obedience to the commandments does not save him, even saying that he can do no good.
Those of us who claim membership in the New Church, being either born or converted into it, and who are taught the two essentials, should already know the New Church's doctrine. However, those who are not in the New Church, more than likely have been taught a false doctrine. Now, we might be judgmental of them for not believing our doctrine of one God in one person and of saving faith as faith with charity together. Yet, we must look at our own life of faith and determine whether or not we are actually living a life of charity as our doctrine teaches us.
Remember that the true Lord's New Church is within man; it is the Lord's presence in us in His Truth and Good conjoining Himself and Heaven with us. It is not our membership in the natural organization of people joined in worship, hearing sermons, and partaking of the sacraments that is the true Church, that if we are in it, that we are members of the Lord's Kingdom. That is not to mean that the natural worshipping together is not necessary or needed, after all we live in the natural world. Where such a 'church' is available, we need and should participate and when we do, then we are obedient to the Word, not to mention that we receive instruction and fellowship with those of like faith. The point here is that one may be in the organized church and even has the genuine truths taught to him, and may even understand them so that the doctrines are in his natural mind and memory and prevents one from knowing internal and genuine truths. Yet, if one does not live and do good according to the doctrine, because it is true, then he only knows the doctrine, but does not live it, because his natural will rules over his natural understanding. Then, as said, the true Church is not within, the Church within is false. You see, the Lord may be present in the truth that we learn and know. However, if we do not act according to what is taught for the sake of truth and if we do not follow what is taught for the sake of what is good, then our faith remains separate from the Lord. And, we are not joined together with the Lord or charity, then from the Lord good and truth in man are not one as man's faith and charity. In fact, we have no charity just as the person who believes that faith without good works saves has no charity. If this is so, we do not have the Lord's Life of love and wisdom conjoined in us, which, when it is, is the new Church in us.
Is the 'dragon' or falsities within us, ready to devour the truths that now descend from the Divine Human from Heaven? Do we believe a false doctrine; is our faith a false faith in which we fail to do what is taught, and so, have no charity. Have we separated charity from faith in our life?
Amen.
Therefore, the first question is, what does the dragon signify? Today, there are churches busy presenting lectures to their congregations and to those in the community that will come attempting to explaining this very subject - the terrible event of the "great red dragon" depicted before "the woman clothed with the sun" ready to devour her child as she gives birth. Just what is the meaning of the Biblical dragon revealed in the book of Revelation; what does it symbolize or signify? One of the ideas propagated by those who try to explain the future the world is facing is that by the dragon is meant a worldwide system of government that is about to be set up - an evil attempt of man to rule the world. Usually, the idea is that this worldwide government is to develop out of organizations like the European Common Market, the UN, and other alliances between various nations. Of course, you can see that this sort of reasoning is mainly in Christian religion. This - the rationalizing of what the meaning of the dragon is - is not, in its self, such a terrible thing, after all these people do look upon the Word as the Truth coming from God, which it is. The dragon only appears to them as a symbol of an evil and false system that men use to take over the world to benefit from, and, in so doing, they feel takes away their religious freedom. These people, of course, are expecting Jesus Christ to return and be the King over this world. The problem with this is that it stems from human rationalization; it comes from man's own natural reasoning - from the understanding and from what has been stored in the memory. Thus, from such natural reasoning, God is left out, He isn't considered as being needed, after all they have their 'own' mind and believe they can think for themselves. Although they would disagree that God is left out. However, this human reasoning marinates 'as it were' into all their thoughts and fills their memory with 'self' or with the love of self. In other words, although they have the written Word, it is as dead to them, for they have generally rejected that it has an internal or spiritual sense. They may only admit that some words in it are to be understood symbolically, so they use their natural understanding to determine what is meant by such words as the "great red dragon" or other mystical beasts mentioned. Nevertheless, in so doing, they not only imagine that words such as 'dragon' and 'beasts with ten heads and horns coming up out of the sea and out of the earth' symbolize a world system that they believe is coming into power. But also the other parts of the Word become falsely understood. Thus, their doctrine becomes false. This, of course, leads them falsely and, thus, we have learned that they worship not one God, but three gods and make the Lord two. Now, most all will deny this, but one only has to read their doctrinal position stated in their various creeds, such as the Athanasian, Augustinian Confession, the Formula Concordiae, and the Nicene to see the dogmas of their belief.
Now, it is doctrine believed, that is, doctrine lived that makes the Church with man the Church and, if the doctrine is false, then that Church is a false Church. In fact, a false doctrine destroys the Church in the end, because the Lord cannot abide where there is falsities; for falsities lead to evils and separates the Church on earth from Heaven and, also, the person who believes in a false doctrine is separated from Heaven and the Lord. Yet, today, from all appearances, these churches seem as though they are still present and active. How can that be if their doctrine is false? If the Lord has established His New Church as it is taught in the Word and believed by those who are its members, then all the prior Churches must necessarily be vastated and their consummation or end has come. For, the Lord is the Lord of the one true Church, and not of many Churches, each one having and teaching a different false doctrine, each claiming what they teach is the truth. The Lord is not the bridegroom and husband of many brides and wives. So, the question remains what constitutes the True Church? Common sense would tell us that all the people in these devastated Churches are not all in falsities and evils, especially when one thinks of a person's innocence and of their desire to live a life of good, which many sincere people honestly try to do. For that fact, neither are all members in the Lord's New Church in the true new Church nor living according to the doctrine of that Church. There is no delemma in this line of reasoning, though there are many who believe that if one doesn't believe as they, that those who don't, will not enter Heaven or be saved. Evidently, the true Church is more than a congregation or society of members joined together in worship. However, if we think of the person, who lives according to the Word, as living from the Lord, then the Truth in Him from the Lord makes the Church a true Church. Then that truth from the Lord in him may well not be closed to him, for the Lord has said, abide in my love and I will abide in you, even as the Father abides in me and I in Him. The true Church is within man, for if the Lord is the Husband of the Church, who is the wife, then isn't the Lord, as Husband, conjoined with the Church, as wife? Then the Church within a person has abiding within him the Lord and this because he or she 'follows', that is, does well according to the commandments? Therefore, does not the Lord with man make or establish the Church in man?
Now, in the text we read of a "woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet" (Rev. 12: 1). When we see the woman as signifying the Church, and this is not difficult to see, for any Christian Church teaches this, then we come to understand why the Lord as Husband conjoins Himself with the wife as the Church. He or the Lord, in a person, conjoins good with truth as in a marriage. These two qualities, when they are in man as his understanding and will, make or constitute the Church and it is a true Church, and such a Church is then, of necessity on earth. Being "clothed with the sun" has reference to that truth and goodness, which are meant the Lord's love and wisdom, which 'as it were' covers the Church that is within man. One can understand that simply by comparing the Lord's Love to the sun in that heat and light proceed from the natural sun to the earth as does the Lord's love and wisdom flow from Him to angels in Heaven and to mankind on earth. By the 'moon under her feet' only shows that the Church is about to come upon earth. You may see this from the fact just mentioned concerning the 'sun' corresponding to the Lord. As anyone can learn and know that the moon receives its light from the sun and is reflected. Thus, man's intelligence and faith, even his love or charity, is only possible from the Lord's wisdom and truth, and in truth, what love and charity and what truth or faith a man has is the Lord's with him. All this becomes, to those who understand that their life truly comes from the Lord daily, evidence that there is an internal sense to the Word. In other words, a man can, now, rationally come to understand the mysteries that so long have been hidden within the Word; he can become intelligent from the Lord; he does not have to remain ignorant of such truths; he does not need to reason from his self intelligence, which in the end becomes folly and ends in insanity. And, from such enlightenment man can receive charity from the Lord and, thus, is conjoined to the Lord and becomes the Lord's Church. What we see here by the "women clothed with the sun" is a new Church in Heaven and its doctrine is about to descend to earth so that the Lord remain present with mankind. Why is the Church here first in Heaven and not on earth and only about to come upon earth? Well, even from a literal understanding of Revelation, we learn that John was taken in spirit up into Heaven. So, what is shown him there about to happen is spiritual, not natural. In other words, what takes place happens in the Spiritual world and not in the natural world. It is a revelation of things to come, and mainly it is about a new Church about to be established and its doctrine given to mankind. In explanation, all true Churches have an internal and an external. So, first, it is seen in Heaven by John and he records it for mankind so that truth is available by which comes faith and by this faith, when it becomes active in ones life, charity or love becomes a part of that person's life. These two, when conjoined in man, make the Church in him a true Church. A closer study of the woman seen by John in Heaven reveals in detail why it is a new Church and soon is to come upon earth.
One of the obvious things seen is that the woman was with child and was about to deliver. This is meant that a new doctrine of life is about to come forth, for a man-child, like the Lord signifies the truth and, of course, truth, when lived, becomes one's doctrine or life. Here, one only need recall that the Lord tells us that we must be born again, that is, there must be a conception and a bringing forth of this new life in man. Of course, a man already has natural life, so it is a spiritual life that is here meant. Think, what is it that brings about spiritual life with man? Of course, it is not easy at first to come to the truth of a new spiritual life. What is needed is a new doctrine, and the old and false doctrines within man greatly resist any such change; they - falsities and evils - want to lead man, thus the person's evil will wants to continue ruling. So, in retrospect, a new Church comes into being and it is a Spiritual Church that is in Heaven and from that Church comes a new doctrine to man on earth, that is, to his natural mind. And, in that conception and birth there is the "pain of deliverance" of that a new doctrine. So, the doctrine or the truths that will become that Church's existence on earth with mankind will be a difficult reception. Just look at what was ready and waiting for the new doctrine to come down to man so it will be devoured and destroyed - the dragon.
For, we read that John saw another sign in Heaven: a "great red dragon". Now, here we begin to learn what the dragon really signifies, and it's not a New World system of government. Let us ask, what are the essentials that make a true Church? Isn't it the belief that there is one God in essence in one person and that charity and faith are one like essence and its form? And, doesn't a person need to live according to the Commandments, which are: that evils are not to be done, that we are to reject them as sins against God, and that in doing charity and believing truths a man is in essence and its form? What all this show us is that the essence of God is One and that One is seen in one Man - the Lord Jesus Christ - who from Himself became the Divine Human. What did we say were the false doctrines that were reasoned from one's own understanding? Is it not the worship of three gods in a Trinity of persons and that a belief or a faith without charity saves? In such a belief, the essentials of a church are perverted. Yet, even today, there are those who may tell you that their faith is a belief in one God and that there is only one Lord, even though they pray to three different persons. However, the Word teaches we are to consider whether or not this trinity is truly meant. By merely listening to their prayers one can tell what they really believe. Regularly they pray that the Father for the sake of the Son to send the Holy Spirit. Hasn't a person, who prays this prayer, made God into three in his thought, praying to God, the Father as one god and for the sake of the Son as another, the second, and concerning the Holy Spirit as yet a third? And, indeed, this formula is taught in their creeds. When such a persons thinks of the Lord's Human alone, and not at the same time of the Lord's Divine, he or she, in fact, makes the Lord in to two. That is what he means by praying 'for the sake of the Son' is His Human who suffered the cross and when speaking of the risen Lord he means the second person of the Trinity. He thus, divides the Lord into two.
This is what the dragon, which would devour the woman's offspring, which means in the internal sense that the doctrine comes from the New Church in Heaven, means. Now, since all the Reformed Church's believe this doctrine of salvation by faith without charity, then the dragon is called 'great', for the Reformed are many and, as it were, over many people. They divide God into three persons; they make faith alone saving. We see that these two false beliefs devastate the Church. They take away truths and goods from man. The dragon represents such false doctrines. You might wonder why a dragon represents this. Let us look in the Word to see why. "I will make Jerusalem a heap, a habitation of dragons, and I will reduce the cities of Judah to a waste" (Jer. 9: 11), and "Thou hast broken us in a place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death" (Ps 44: 19). Aren't these verses speaking about the Church's devastation? It is seen as the reason why Jerusalem lay a heap. By Jerusalem is meant the Church. Here, the dragon is used to represent such a doctrine that teaches a man falsities, and which turn him away from the truth concerning God so that he worships false gods, and causes him to reject the works of the Law as not saving. He thinks that his faith alone saves him, that his obedience to the commandments does not save him, even saying that he can do no good.
Those of us who claim membership in the New Church, being either born or converted into it, and who are taught the two essentials, should already know the New Church's doctrine. However, those who are not in the New Church, more than likely have been taught a false doctrine. Now, we might be judgmental of them for not believing our doctrine of one God in one person and of saving faith as faith with charity together. Yet, we must look at our own life of faith and determine whether or not we are actually living a life of charity as our doctrine teaches us.
Remember that the true Lord's New Church is within man; it is the Lord's presence in us in His Truth and Good conjoining Himself and Heaven with us. It is not our membership in the natural organization of people joined in worship, hearing sermons, and partaking of the sacraments that is the true Church, that if we are in it, that we are members of the Lord's Kingdom. That is not to mean that the natural worshipping together is not necessary or needed, after all we live in the natural world. Where such a 'church' is available, we need and should participate and when we do, then we are obedient to the Word, not to mention that we receive instruction and fellowship with those of like faith. The point here is that one may be in the organized church and even has the genuine truths taught to him, and may even understand them so that the doctrines are in his natural mind and memory and prevents one from knowing internal and genuine truths. Yet, if one does not live and do good according to the doctrine, because it is true, then he only knows the doctrine, but does not live it, because his natural will rules over his natural understanding. Then, as said, the true Church is not within, the Church within is false. You see, the Lord may be present in the truth that we learn and know. However, if we do not act according to what is taught for the sake of truth and if we do not follow what is taught for the sake of what is good, then our faith remains separate from the Lord. And, we are not joined together with the Lord or charity, then from the Lord good and truth in man are not one as man's faith and charity. In fact, we have no charity just as the person who believes that faith without good works saves has no charity. If this is so, we do not have the Lord's Life of love and wisdom conjoined in us, which, when it is, is the new Church in us.
Is the 'dragon' or falsities within us, ready to devour the truths that now descend from the Divine Human from Heaven? Do we believe a false doctrine; is our faith a false faith in which we fail to do what is taught, and so, have no charity. Have we separated charity from faith in our life?
Amen.
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