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14 This will be a matter of necessity with us so long as we are compound beings. Though God is purely a spirit, yet when He communicates himself to man, He becomes in some respects like man, God incarnate. So when He wishes to impart to us a knowledge of spiritual laws and atributes, He embodies them with in types and symbols that are familiar to us. It was in accordance with this principle that the unclear of man used so many parables and figures, by which he illustrated to the carnal mind the laws of His religion. Yet the material and the spiritual are widly unclear, and must not be confounded; they are as distinct as any trio extremes can be. The religion of Christ is vitally and purely spiritual as God is spiritual. It partakes no more of the rite which embodies it, than thought partakes of language, or than mind partakes of the body, or than clothing partakes of flesh and blood bonds. Ritualism in its tecnical sense is only the spectacles