Invitation to the NC (Buss) n. 11

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11. The presence of the Lord's love is with those who are in faith in Him. This may be clearly understood from the fact that place cannot be predicated of love, nor of faith; for each is spiritual. That the Lord Himself is present is manifest from the consideration that what is spiritual also has no place. It was ever so in my own case, when I was in a spiritual idea. In a word, presence in the spiritual world is according to love. Wherefore He is omnipresent; it is not a matter of moving about: it is in place, but not [a proceeding] through place. It is in space and in extense, but not through space and through extense.


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