We have been so afraid of this in most churches most religious people have been told to look outside instead of inside. Paul believes that we've all been given a source for a true inner knowledge, which becomes a calm inner authority whereby we know spiritual things for ourselves (see 1 Corinthians 2:1-16). God has implanted in us a true "homing device" that we can depend upon.
So the Christ, for Paul, is not out there the Eternal Christ is in here, inside us in the form of his Indwelling Spirit. Paul understands that Jesus left us his Indwelling Spirit as a permanent, strengthening gift. (Buddhists seem to be trained in this much better than followers of most other religions.) It is almost impossible to do this alone and unaided, unless one has immense discipline and will power. Only when our spirit joins with God's Spirit do most of us find the strength to stand guard over our hearts and minds (Philippians 4:7).
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His theology is best summarized in Romans 8:16: "The Spirit joins with our spirit to bear common witness that we are children of God." What a succinct statement of first stage contemplation! This is experienced when our spirit learns how to calmly join with the "Always, Already Awareness" of God-who is forever observing us and loving us objectively and compassionately, just the way we are. Paul develops a marvelous theology, really the very first one, of the Holy Spirit, or what I often call the Internal Witness.
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