TCR 764, 766 - The Morning

TCR 764 [2]

. . . the last phase of the Church
is meant by evening and night,
and its first phase by morning.
The Lord Himself also is called Morning
in the following passages:

"The God of Israel said,
the Rock of Israel spake to me . . .
He shall be as the light of the morning . . .
even a morning without clouds."
(II Samuel 23: 3, 4)

"I am the root and offspring of David,
the bright and morning star."
(Revelation 22: 16)

These passages have reference to the Lord;
for He is the Morning.
For this reason also
He arose from the sepulcher early in the morning,
for He was about to begin a new Church (Mark xvi. 2, 9).

TCR 766

The Lord is present with every person,
urgent and pressing to be received;
and when a person receives Him,
by acknowledging Him
as his Creator, Redeemer and Savior,
then is His first Coming, which is called the dawn.
From this time the person,
as to his understanding,
begins to be enlightened in spiritual things,
and to advance to a more interior degree of wisdom.
As he receives this wisdom from the Lord,
so he progresses through morning into day,
and this day continues with him to old age,
even till death;
and after death he comes into heaven
to the Lord Himself.
There, although he may have died an old man,
he returns to the morning of his life,
and continues to develop to eternity
the wisdom whose beginnings were first implanted
during his life in the natural world.