But this sense of freedom causes him to do all _in love_, which he hitherto
did because it was so "laid down in the law."
Again St. Paul makes this plain:
"The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance; against such as these there
is no law--neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new
creature."
When we are armored with the "fruit of the spirit," we have no need for
rules of conduct; for methods of salvation; or for any of the bonds that
are necessary to the merely sense-conscious man.
Plainly, Paul recognized the fact that systems of religion, of philosophy,
of rules and ethics of intercourse, are necessary only so long as man
remains on the sense-conscious plane. When Illumination comes, there comes
with it absolute freedom. God does not want to be worshipped on bended
knee; by rites and ceremonies; by obedience to commandments, but the
undisciplined soul acquires power and poise through these exercises, and in
time grows to the full stature of god-consciousness.
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