“Tell me of it; for even the bodily presence of you—its disciples—bringeth a peculiar benediction!”
“We are but its instruments of spiritual ministration!”
“Cometh it down from the God of the Hebrews in answer to your petitions?”
“Behold the presence of God filleth all things, both great and small, and his loving favor hath no constraint [pg 379]of tribe or nation! We need not beg, for no willingness is lacking with him. To open our souls to the abundance which is already provided, comprehendeth the Spirit of the New Faith!”
“Peradventure I felt some faint beginnings of its presence within me while I was yet in the Holy City, but Serenus and thyself have it in living fulness!”
“Behold the power and love which inspire may come through silent communication from another soul! The Spirit speaketh through one to another to the inner ear.”
“How mysterious, and yet how beautiful!”
“When the Image of God within is discovered, in due time it maketh its fruits manifest in the outer and seen.”
“Hath Marcius, the Vice Legate, accepted the New Faith?”
“He hath not yet fully avowed it, but is possessed of a growing desire to know the Truth. Though a Roman, the dawn of a higher consciousness already hath shone into his soul, and perchance the good seed which Serenus hath sown will spring forth into a full harvest.”