enjoy with Christ through the Holy Spirit. It is not an out-of-body experience, or transportation of the soul into the heavenly regions, or astral projection. Nevertheless, there is a real communion, a certain sense of Christ being made present to us by the Holy Spirit. As has often been said, ‘Touching his human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, he is never absent from us.’ Jesus, in the Gospels, refers to leaving, departing from his disciples and returning
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