The Way of the Seven Fold Secret by Lilias Trotter

VII.
THE SECRET OF ABIDING.
We have seen one central fact in all these secrets
that are unveiled in the seven sayings of Christ that we
have considered. It is the fact that He has brought back
to us the life of God that was lost to us by Adam.
We saw Him first as the Bread of Life to satisfy mens'
hearts, and then as the Light of Life to illuminate their
minds, and then as the Resurrection and the Life to bring
their spirits forth into a new creation. And at the end
of the last chapter we saw how He would impart Himself
to His people, in His true and essential being, through
the outpouring of His Spirit, Whom by His return to
heaven, He would send down to earth.
The outpouring of the Spirit took place thus. After
the Lord was taken from them, there met together day
after day a band of one hundred and twenty of His disciples,
both brothers and sisters, and they continued in
prayer, for He had said to them, "Tarry ye in the city of
J ernsalem until ye be endued with power from on high."*
And on the tenth day, in the morning while they were
gathere.d together, He sent down His Spirit in a mighty
flood, and they were all filled with courage and wisdom
and love, and went out to the people, and while the brothers
preached Christ, three thousand were added to them
that same day.
Thenceforth the Holy Spirit has dwelt with His
people, and they have received His infilling according to
the measure in which they have been ready to trust Him
wholly and to submit themselves to His mastery. The
command " Be filled with the Spirit" 'r is to every disciple
of Christ.
* Luke 24. 49. t Eph. 5. r8.