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Again, St. Paul teaches us to evolve in "every way"~not just some ways~into Jesus Christ. Christ Jesus is the Universal Head of the mystical Christ Body. The person who lives reflecting the Spirit of Christ is a true Christian; she is on the path, if not already arrived, to being a divinized~or spiritualized~person: having all natural capacities transformed into the likeness of Christ.
This Christ is the nondual union of the Cosmic Christ and Jesus of Nazareth: a Mystery that the Church speaks of in the designations Son of Man and Son of God, and fully God and fully man. This truth cannot be lived within as an experiential truth in oneness with a person's whole being except at the spiritual level of emergence.
The true Christian shall aspire, then, within her capacity, to be like Christ. As aspiration is purified more and exercised through everyday acesis, capacity increases. Then, one grows to understand, not mentally but spiritually, the meaning of being "in Christ" and being in the "Body of Christ."
Suggested Reflection
Which realm do you conclude you are living from? Explain what evidences, or fruit, you see that verifies that answer.
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