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Excerpt from Conversations of Jesus Christ With Representative Men Pharisee to himself, into his very heart. 'if you would know who I am, and what am to teach, and what I am to do, the first essential thing is within thyself. We must not invert the alphabet, and begin at omega - at results and conclusions the kingdom of God which I came to establish is not external, but interior and spiritual, consisting of gracious dispositions, of love, and joy in the Holy Ghost and if one is to share in it at all, he must be brought into ahin ity with'it by a change in himself.' Nothing is wanting here to make the connection and complete the sense. The divine Teacher - r recognized as such, addressed as such - asserts a lesson which is at once the simplest and the sublimest. Nicodemus is acquainted only with an external kingdom of God so that the first words of Christ reverse all his old habits of thought. 'my teaching and my testimony are not about visible wonders; but interior affec tions; not so much about what I can do and have done, as what you are, and you, in your own soul, must become.' Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.