APHORISM XXIV.

Morality is the body, of which the faith in Christ is the soul--so far

indeed its earthly body, as it is adapted to its state of warfare on

earth, and the appointed form and instrument of its communion with the

present world; yet not "terrestrial," nor of the world, but a

celestial body, and capable of being transfigured from glory to glory,

in accordance with the varying circumstances and outward relations of

its moving and informing spirit.

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