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water for those who were being regenerated ... It is accordingly & sign of the sanctifying of our invisible part, and of the straining off from the new and spiritual creation of the unclean spirits that have got mixed up with the soul."--A.N.C.L. vol. xxiv. p. 119.
"... 80 also ought we to fast from worldly things, that we may due to the world, and after that, partaking of the divine susteDance, live to God. Especially does fasting empty the soul of matter, and make it, along with the body, pure and light for the divine words. Worldly food is the former life and sin; but the divine food is faith, hope, love, patience, knowledge, peace, temperance. For 'blessed are they tbat hunger and thirst after God's righteousness for they shall be filled' (Matt. v. 6). The soul, but not the body, it 18 which is susceptible of this craving."-Ibid. p. 121.
Finally, when all matter is completely separated from the soul and it has gone to the sacred abode of the Gods—the topmost part of the Universe-(above the perishable heavens) it could not be defiled by anything afresh.
"And there shall is no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh & lie..." Rev. xxi. 27.
