This world does every conceivable thing to man in his journey, but every conceivable thing. God in his infinite mercy has hidden the horrors through which you’ve passed…in his infinite mercy. If you could remember the things through which you passed, you would not be qualified to face life and continue doing the things that you must do to arrive at the point called Jesus Christ. Now, Tom, in your own case, and in the other Tom back in New York City, Tom C., I have your letter at home, I have Tom C.’s letter at home, and in the vision of both of you, you were quoting Paul, the 13th chapter of Corinthians. He quoted not Paul’s Corinthians, he quoted Galatians: “I have been crucified with Christ; it is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (2:20). That creative power became me to make me alive. You quoted I think it was the 11th verse of 13th Corinthians, “When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child.” There are only thirteen verses. The last one I quoted when I stood in the presence of the risen Christ, “Faith, hope and love, these three abide; but the greatest of these is love” (1Cor.13:13). So I find that in the unfolding man when he begins to awaken he is quoting Paul, the works of the [...]. He is fulfilling the gospel, but as he moves through, he is using the words of that last state as poured out in the form of letters. For we’re told in scripture that no prophecy of scripture ever came by the impulse of man when men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God; therefore, if this is scripture then it cannot be of human composition. He didn’t sit down to compose that hymn of love, which is the 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians. You quoted it…I recall that vividly. Tom back East quoted Galatians, not the works of Paul. In my own case, I quoted the last verse of 13th Corinthians when I stood in the presence of the risen Christ. I know that Christ is risen, I know that Jesus Christ, the risen Christ, is God himself—not less than God, it’s God himself. It’s God who became man; but in becoming man, it’s his creative power, his wisdom, and it’s called in scripture Jesus Christ. So he’s buried in man; he will rise from man. When he rises from man he’s incorporated into the one body that is the risen Christ. So Paul could make the statement, I want to make it my own because Christ Jesus has made me his own.” So he must have had the experience of the incorporation…that glorious ecstasy when he embraces you and you fuse with him, and you wear the body of Christ. But then you’ve got to have the marks of Jesus on your body.302 ¶67