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Unity of Good.
The Apostle refers to the second Adam as the Messiah, our blessed Master, whose interpretation of God and His creation — by restoring the spiritual sense of man, as immortal instead of mortal — made humanity victorious over death and the grave.
When I discovered the power of Spirit to break the cords of matter, through a change in the mortal sense of things, then I discerned the last Adam as a quickening Spirit, and understood the meaning of the declaration of Holy Writ, “The first shall be last,” — the living Soul shall be found a quickening Spirit; or, rather, shall reflect the Life of the Divine Arbiter.
