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Viewed in this way, it is seen that the world of faith is available to all, at any time. All people possess the capacity for faith. To attain faith, one merely needs to "wake up" spiritually. As we awake from physical sleep, we go from mere illusion to reality. How many times have we dreamed of things, which seemed perfectly normal in the dream state, but which upon waking, we find them to be totally senseless? The same occurs when one attains faith. A Jew, for example, brought up believing the interpretations of his contemporaries regarding the Coming of Christ - interpretations that seemed founded upon reality - would have, after accepting Christ, regarded those same interpretations as mere fantasy. To illustrate, consider that the thinking that the Christ was to be an earthly king, would seem meaningless, compared to the reality of His heavenly, His eternal and everlasting sovereignty. As we awake, we become aware of reality
(69:6)
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