Body and Spirit

If we don't seek we don't find; we drift in the darkness of unknowing where we unconsciously inflict ourselves and others with unnecessary suffering.  All the enlightened ones see this and feel sad about it. ( Mt 23:37). But what the enlightened ones have discovered by seeking engulfs that sadness like a macrophage engulfs and devours harmful bacteria in the body, restoring, in this case, their minds and hearts, to the health of knowing the Truth. The Truth sets you free--even from being dragged down by the sadness of unnecessary human suffering. [John 8:32] That sadness is sublimated into the only meaningful activity in the human realm: Love.
The Spirit of Christ may be compared to the immune system of the human body. Jesus said His Way would be like "leaven" or yeast in a lump of dough, enhancing it and bringing it to life. His Spirit in humans causes them to be safe and life-enhancing for societies in the way that macrophage cells protect the human body from infection. The Church, in its reality, is the earthly, collective embodiment of the Spirit and Truth of Christ. But we see in the Church, as in the physical body, evil, as pathogens, invades the healthy body and replicates itself therein. Here you have the cults. Here you have greed, lust and even hatred disguised as religion. The Spirit of Christ has departed from these, no matter if His Name is spoken, shouted and lauded a thousand times in their contexts.

"In their role as a phagocytic immune cell macrophages are responsible for engulfing pathogens to destroy them. Some pathogens subvert this process and instead live inside the macrophage. This provides an environment in which the pathogen is hidden from the immune system and allows it to replicate." (Wikipedia).

When this happens in the human body, physicians do not treat the pathogen-invaded cells the same as the healthy cells--they try to destroy them to protect the body. The human body is not "tolerant" of everything that enters it because it has innate wisdom to protect the overall health of itself--ultimately the consciousness that it carries--from  being destroyed by lesser, pathological organisms. There is a hierarchy of value. The human body does not value--in fact it seeks to destroy--pathogenic cells. This is not selfish or unjust of the body. It issues from a higher wisdom that seeks to preserve consciousness at a higher-than-cellular level. This higher wisdom is not motivated by hatred or fear of those pathogens; it is motivated by love for life and all that is good in it. It recognizes that there is good and evil: that which enhances and that which destroys the good. Disease is a manifestation of evil because it is parasitical to a higher form of consciousness.Good manifests as cosmic Love that generates kindness, harmony, peace, good will, and joy in the human family. Enlightenment recognizes that the entire universe is a manifestation of Love, [1John 4:8]
[John 1:1-3] and we come Home when we surrender to and align ourselves with this Love--the Love of Christ. In this place of Love is a progressively clearer vision of life as it is--in other words, Ultimate Truth. There is no arrogance here, and no compulsion. But there is a sincere and holy desire to see this Love-Truth propagated in the human family. This is true evangelism, or the motivating factor behind it. This Love is recognized as Life itself--like the energy contained in atoms. As we connect with and release this energy within ourselves,  we create heaven for ourselves. [Jn 14:20] If we do not discover this Reality on the Spiritual level, we may destroy ourselves by its physical equivalent in the material world. [See Gen MacArthur's speech, at the surrender of Japan, spoken from the U.S.S. Missouri].
https://ussmissouri.org/learn-the-history/surrender/general-macarthurs-radio-address#