To eat and drink of the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ is to let his spirit fill you, and to lead his Life by keeping his sayings in thought, word, and deed.

In the great lesson which he gave upon the communion (John 6 :47-63) Jesus plainly reveals his mystic statement, “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood ye have no life in you,” by the closing words of his discourse, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.”

He who eats and drinks the words of Christ partakes of the communion daily. Every time he eats and drinks outwardly he can sup with the Lord by realizing that he does not eat material food, but in spirit and in truth is receiving and incorporating into his very being the substance of God.

Every act of the life can be holy.

“Whatsoever ye do, do it from the soul, as unto the Lord, and not unto men.”
--- Col. 3 :23.

He that realizes the cleansing of the word of Truth is baptized every time he washes his hands or enters his bath. The true “grace” to breathe before each meal is the consciousness that in reality one is identifying himself with the substance (spirit) and creative power (life) of God.

The fasting of the saints arose from their continual denial of the world, the flesh, and the devil. When filled with the bread and wine of the Spirit the devotee often finds himself having no appetite for material food, and so does not eat, nor care to eat. Then the world sees him fasting. He is not fasting to become spiritual, but because he has become spiritual he is fasting.