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will revive memory of this friend or will seem to bring him nearer. Often a photograph will be a comfort in separation from a dear one.

Let the friend come and live in the house with us, be with us continually and his real presence becomes all that is necessary to satisfy our love, and is far more to us than any "symbol" could be. We will no longer go to the picture or need any symbol when we have the original with us. Christ in the heart is the true bread and wine of our communion.

The mistake has been in supposing that Jesus set aside a special portion as symbol of his body (or even as his real body). The whole visible universe is Truth's Body, and, when understood as such and seen as united with its "Head," no conception can again blind our eyes to the perfection of the body. We should receive all that we eat or drink as the Divine Body! The Lord's Body is the only Body, and our (individual) bodies "are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones." (Eph. 5: 30.)

To recognize this is to know atonement to accept every visible thing as the sacred Body is to receive communion. It is to realize the unity of inner and outer, to know and love one Presence "always with us," and to obey the impulse of Love and Truth every moment.

In kindness to a feeble realization, visible props are allowed as a child learning to walk holds to the "hand" it can feel. When it gives up the "hand," it does not give up the Mother.