A MAP OF LIFE united with Christ, we receive Christ’s teaching — so that we may know the truths bearing on the meaning and pvirpose of our lives, and the laws by which we may live rightly. In that Church we are so united to Christ that the Supernatural Life pours into our souls. The whole of man’s needs are thus met, those needs which have been kept constantly in mind from the beginning of this book. But there is a wider horizon yet. This mystical body of Christ is the Church. But the Church is not only a thing of this world. It contains not only its members still in this life, but also all who have died with the Supernatural Life in their souls — whether having attained their goal they are in heaven, or in final preparation for Heaven they are in Purgatory. The mystical body is a growing body. All who die with the Supernatural Life are in it for ever:* each new member is a new cell. There will come a point, St. Paul tells us, when the mystical body will have grown to its perfect stature, in some such way as a natural body reaches its fullest development. When that time comes, the human race will have achieved its purpose and the world will come to an ^d. For there is a purpose for the whole race as well as for the individual man, and the end of the world will be not simply a decision by God that the world has gone on long enough, but will definitely mean that the race has achieved its purpose. 64