[The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day CHAPTER VIII 15/73
The Spectre is attending to economics: the Emanation is dreaming of Utopia.
We want to see them united, for from this union alone will come the social aspect for surrender.
That is to say, a single-minded, unselfish yielding to those good social impulses which we all feel from time to time, and might take more seriously did, we realize them as the impulsions of holy and creative Spirit pressing us towards novelty, giving us our chance; our small actualization of the universal tendency to the Divine.
As it is, we do feel a little uncomfortable when these stirrings reach us; but commonly console ourselves with the thought that their realization is at present outside the sphere of practical politics.
Yet the obligation of response to those stirrings is laid on all who feel them; and unless some will first make this venture of faith, our possible future will never be achieved. Christ was born among those who _expected_ the Kingdom of God.
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