The Light of the East April 1937

But the Church takes pride in such humility because it is in a small measure an imitation of the infinite humility of Omnipotent God Who took the form of a servant became subject to His parents who were creatures of THE LIGHT OF THE EAST 7 1"His own hands abandoned His own will for the will of His heavenly Father and finally humbled Himself to the death of the Cross. [...] The faith of the Church is the faith of the catacombs the faith of the disciples of the Apostles the faith preached by the Apostles and by our Lord Himself. [...] III 6) and the letters of the immdiate successors of the Apostles Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch Polycarp of Smyrna 74 THE LIGHT OF THE EAST"and then Irenaeus of Lyons and you will know what in the opinion of Christ Himself and of His disciples and of the disciples of these discples was the means that Christ had established to propagate His doctrine: it was the living body of [...] The real gods are the br5hmanas who walk the earth and possess the knowledge of the sacrfice and the way to direct it in its mysterious beneficent workings: the priests. [...] Is it not magic to state that the sun arises because the sacrifice is offered in the morning ? Is it not magic to maintain that the world-course is modelled on nay identical with the course of the sacrifice and that behind the cosmical powers there is the driving force of the sacrifice immanent in rites and invocations ? Let us remark however that this magic is neither black nor profane.