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the world with their sounds of glory, but one by one they drop into the grave and only the echoes of their songs are left. Theirs was not the Secret of the Lord. They knew not music in understanding. Like the manna the Jews ate, it fed their minds with what promised to be life, but it lasted only a season. The bread that Jesus gave is so alive that if a man eat thereof he shall never die. This Secret He gave to the world, and He said, "Abide in Me." "Keep my words." "The Holy Ghost will come in my name."
Sometimes to repeat the name of Jesus takes us closer and closer into His Mind, where the living Secret rested. We speak of that Spirit within ourselves which is exactly like His Spirit, and of it we say, "I understand the Secret of Jesus Christ." It is not in order that we may understand His secret that we speak, but because, as Spirit, we do understand. It is the Truth of Spirit we speak -- Spirit works only in Truth. It comes forth in freedom over the highways of Truth.
If you watch all the writings of the devoted and spiritually- minded of all the ages, you will find them speaking sometimes of Spirit as the reality and sometimes of matter as the reality. That was because they had not their revelations or thoughts in perfect understanding.
In Genesis we find the first chapter telling how perfect are all the creations of God. They are Good. Perfection cannot fall. Can God fall? Can Goodness become badness? Can strength become weakness? Yet Moses tells in the second chapter how the perfect son of God fell from his high estate of goodness into the dusty sinfulness of Adam. He is speaking in these two chapters from two standpoints, one is Reality and the other is unreality. Christ, the Spirit, is Reality. Adam the dust man with his world is unreality.
Both these natures come calling our attention, even within ourselves. One is pure Adam nature, with its erroneous ideas
