From: RBNaumann@webtv.net   
      
   "Thus in our measure and station each one of us will receive the mission   
   of the I AM.   
       
   CHRIST - THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW.   
      
   "Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the proph.ets: I am not   
   come to destroy but to fulfil." (Matt. v. 17.)   
      
   "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that   
   believeth." (Rom. x. 4.)   
      
   If these words are the utterance of a mere sectarian superstition they   
   are worthless; but if they are the statement of a great principle, then   
   it is worth our while to enquire what that principle is. The fulfilling   
   of anything is the bringing into complete realization of all that it   
   potentially contains, and so the filling of any law to its fulness means   
   bringing out all the possibilities which are hidden in it. This is   
   precisely the method which has brought forth all the advances of   
   material civilization. The laws of nature are the same now that they   
   were in the days of our rugged Anglo-Saxon ancestors, but they brought   
   out only an infinitesimal fraction of the possibilities which those laws   
   contain: now we have brought out a good deal more, but we have by no   
   means exhausted them, and so we continue to advance, not by   
   contradicting natural laws, but by more fully realizing their capacity.   
      
   Why should we not, then, apply the same method to ourselves and see   
   whether there are no potentialities hidden away in the law of our own   
   being which we have not as yet by any means brought to their fulfilment?   
   We talk of a good time coming and of the ameliorating of the race; but   
   do we reflect that the race is composed of individuals and that   
   therefore real advance is to be made only by individual improvement, and   
   not by Act of Parliament? and if so, then the individual with whom to   
   begin is ourself.   
      
   The complete manifestation of the Law of Individuality is the end or   
   purpose of the Bible teaching concerning Christ. It is a teaching based   
   upon Law, spiritual and mental, fully recognizing that no effect can be   
   produced except by the operation of an adequate cause, and Christ is set   
   before us both as explaining the causes and exhibiting the full measure   
   of the effects. All this is according to Law; and the importance of its   
   being according to Law is that Law is universal, and the potentialities   
   of the Law are therefore inherent in everyone there is no special law   
   for anybody, but anybody can specialize the law by using it with a   
   fuller understanding of how much can be got out of it; and the purpose   
   of the Scripture teaching regarding Christ is to help us to do this."   
      
   Thomas Troward   
      
   http://website.lineone.net/~thomastroward/   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)