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Stockham, Alice Bunker - Karezza - About spiritual experience
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Karezza – Ethics of Marriage 1903 second edition – Dr Alice B Stockham
All spiritual experience is growth in the knowledge of man's divinity, of his inseparable union with the omnipresent principle of life. He may come to a sudden awakening of this great truth of his being which results in an instantaneous conversion, like Saul of Tarsus, or it may more slowly dawn upon his perception as in the case of Saul of old as he listened to the divine harmonies of David's harp.
Whenever and however man perceives this truth, it is borne upon his inner consciousness that the real enduring things of life belong to the spirit, while the evanescent, fleeting, unstable things of life are of the material. He comes to rule his life according to this knowledge, and while he lives in the world, he is not of it, and all things present new meanings to him.