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66 Christianity as Mystical Fact and then,
occurrence literally
a certain
in
sense,
as they stand in the text.
actually says that
He
is
Jesus the resurrection that
has happened to Lazarus, and that He is the life that Lazarus is living. Let us take literally what Jesus is in St. John's Gospel.
He He is ning.
is
"the
Word
that was
made
flesh.'*
the Eternal that existed in the beginIf
he
really the resurrection, then
is
the Eternal, Primordial has risen again in
Lazarus.
We
have, therefore, to do with a
resurrection of the eternal
"Word" been
is
the
life
"Word," and
this
to which Lazarus has
a case of illness, not one leading to death, but to the glory, i. e., the manifestation of God. If the eternal Word has reawakened in Lazarus, the whole event conduces to manifest God in Lazarus. For by means of the event Lazarus has become a different man. Before it, the Word, or spirit raised.
It is
did not live in him,
now
it
does.
The
spirit
has been born within him. It is true that every birth is accompanied by illness, that of the mother, but the illness leads to new life, not to death. In Lazarus that part of him