THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST who are in the love of God. But observe that all this refers to the Supernatural Life — the life by which man is to be able to live the life of heaven. Supernaturally we, the cells, live with the life of Christ. But our natural life is not destroyed: and naturally we live with our own lives. Now it is part of our nature that we have free will, and part of our natural life to exercise it. We can do so in one of three ways : we can yield our wills wholly to God: or we can yield them to God, but not wholly : or we can reject God. And according to the use we thus make will be our state in the mystical body. If we yield ourselves wholly to the Supernatural Life, the life of the mystical body, then we are living supernaturally at the fullest intensity. If our wills are not wholly yielded to God, then we hinder the flow of the Supernatural Life in us and though we are living supernaturally, though we are still sharing the life of the body so that Christ really lives in us, yet that life is not present in its fullest intensity. And if, being once incorporated — that is, built into the body of Christ — our wills turn against God and reject Him for self — then we shut off the stream of life altogether and though we remain in the body we are dead cells* — retaining our natural hfe, which is of no avail for salvation — but without the Supernatural Life. While we are still in this world. Super* For a more detailed discussion of the state of those who have lost the Supernatural Life, see p. 125. 67