the soul with courage, for Christ wills not only to be Brother and Friend to Man. He also expects that Man should summon up courage
become a friend of God and a brother of Christ. St. Paul's words, "Not I, but Christ in me," will have no reality unless Man ventures
to
which separates God and Man. Faith, as humility and courage of soul, alone makes possible the indwelling of the Christ to bridge the gulf
Ego
in the
human
ego.
Immediately after the Seer John experiences the octave of that hour in which he lay on Jesus' breast and heard His exhortation to friendship with God, the heavens open and the picture of the White Rider appears to him.
Through the grace of Communion,
mature enough to look into
Man must grow
this picture as into a mirror,
awakening in himself the inner strength to
thereby
become a fellow warrior
with Christ. If a
man were able to let bis human nature be permeated through and
through by the Being of Christ, he might say: "I recognize myself in the Rider
Rider first
is
on the White Horse." The different names by which the can be signposts on the road to such identification. The
called
name
is
translated in the Authorized Version
of the Bible
as
(xix, u). The inadequacy of this rendering will in times to come. The words translated "faithful be realized only fully
"faithful
and true"
and true" should be understood as "He is the bearer of Faith and Truth." Two world principles, Faith and Knowledge, are combined in a living synthesis by the Rider on the White Horse. He lives in a Here spiritual realm where Faith and Knowledge are reconciled. the Bible itself refutes the doctrine which, since the Middle Ages, has separated faith in revelation and knowledge acquired by reason. This division has robbed religious life of its spiritual intensity and impetus, making Christian piety assume an inwardly passive character. The flame of spiritual activity can be kindled again by the Revelation of St. John so that a higher knowledge can come from faith, and faith can bring warmth and Head and inspiration to knowledge. heart will work together when we are no longer content with a The picture of the religious life which is divorced from thought White Horse has already appeared once in the Apocalypse. It came on the scene when the first of the Seven Seals was opened. Now after we have been through all the cycles of Seals, Trumpets and Vials of Wrath it is seen again, carrying the White Rider. We have seen that the first Seals show the stages which the divine gift of Intelligence has passed through in the course of evolution. The White Horse 168