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the method or to follow the secret, but they were told: 'Follow me!' For it was only by fixing their heart and mind on Jesus that they could learn to use the method and secret right; 'by feeding on him,' by, as he often said, 'remaining in him.'

But this is just what Israel had been told to do as regards the Eternal himself. 'I have set the Eternal always before me;' 'Mine eyes are ever toward the Eternal;' 'The Eternal is the strength of my life;' 'Wait, I say, on the Eternal!'[1] Now, then, let us go back again for a little to Israel, and to Israel's belief.

  1. Ps. xvi, 8; xxv, 15; xxvii, 1, 14.