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Finally, beloved, perform deeds that you know Christ would perform and shun those that Christ would not engage in.<ref>Ibid.</ref> | Finally, beloved, perform deeds that you know Christ would perform and shun those that Christ would not engage in.<ref>Ibid.</ref> | ||
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[[Saint Germain]] has said: | |||
<blockquote>When one truly knows the life and work of Jesus, one’s admiration for the Master knows no bounds. But this admiration must be great enough to inspire the soul to the imitation of Christ. To walk in the illumined footsteps of the Master, to relive his life by working his works, by entering into and participating in his passion and by drinking the whole cup of communion with the Lord—the cup of joys and the cup of sorrows—this is the way of the advancing path of the disciple who first admires and adores his Master and then, as the initiate, emulates his actions and his consciousness.<ref>Saint Germain, “Verity,” ''''Keepers of the Flame Lesson 19, pp. 34, 36–37.</ref></blockquote> | |||
== The ascended masters on ''The Imitation of Christ'' == | == The ascended masters on ''The Imitation of Christ'' == | ||
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<blockquote>Yes, beloved, ''The Imitation of Christ'' is yet the book that you must keep at bedside and read, even a page each night, imitating the ways of Christ until your imitation is become the Divine Reality unmoved, and I say ''unmoved'', beloved!<ref>Archangel Michael, “New Beginnings,” {{POWref|34|47|, October 6, 1991}}</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>Yes, beloved, ''The Imitation of Christ'' is yet the book that you must keep at bedside and read, even a page each night, imitating the ways of Christ until your imitation is become the Divine Reality unmoved, and I say ''unmoved'', beloved!<ref>Archangel Michael, “New Beginnings,” {{POWref|34|47|, October 6, 1991}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
== For more information == | |||
Sermon by Elizabeth Clare Prophet on ''The Imitation of Christ'', January 20, 1974, published in ''Pearls of Wisdom'', vol. 44, nos. 15 & 16, April 15 & 22, 2001. | |||
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, lecture to Summit University, September 19, 1973 (unpublished). | |||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||