upon His
spiritual, life-giving flesh and blood, so that Salvation is not tied
to external sacraments, but stands only in the faith that Christ feeds
us with Himself.[10] There are, he proceeds to show, two radically
diverse natures, the traits and {143} characteristics of which he
arranges in opposing pairs, in two parallel columns as follows:

A. The Nature of Christ and B. The nature of Adam and
of those who live in Him those who live by him,
and by Him. _i.e._ those who live the
natural, earthly life.

1. This Nature turns from 1. This nature turns from God
creatures to God. to creatures.

2. This Nature hates itself and 2. This nature loves itself
loves others. more than it loves God or
others.

3. This Nature abhors all it 3. This nature delights only
itself does or omits. in itself and in things of
self.

4. This Nature seeks to lose 4. This nature seeks itself in
self. everything.

5. This Nature denies self. 5. This nature cleaves to self.

6. This Nature patiently bears 6. This nature thrusts the
the Cross. Cross away.

15. This Nature desires to be 15. This nature desires to be
conformed to Christ and equal with God without
His Cross in all things. any humility at all.[11]

Christ is thus for Weigel entirely a new order of Being--the Beginner
of a new race. Adam had in himself all the possibilities which Christ
realized, but the former failed and the latter succeeded and so has
become the Head of a divine and heavenly type of humanity. By "a new
nativity," a rebirth from above, any man in the world who wills it in
living faith may be a recipient of the divine-principle, the
Christ-Life, and may thereby be raised to membership in the Kingdom of
the Christ-Humanity, which is as far above the Adam-Humanity as the
flower is above the soil from which it first sprang. When Christ is
formed within and the Humanity which He produces appears in the world,
then a new way of living comes into operation. Love is the supreme
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