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poured on the head ran down over the members of the body, aswe read, (Ps. 133:2,) "It ran down the beard, even Aaron's beard:that went down to the skirts of the garments." So we, who claimnot to be the head, but members in Christ's body, receive fullanointing by the same spirit. "For as the body is one, and hathmany members, and all the members of that body, being many,are one body; so also is Christ, for by one spirit are we allbaptized into one body."--1 Cor. 12:12. "As many of us as werebaptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death."--Rom.6:3.Our oneness with Jesus, as members of the Christ-- anointedbody--may be clearly illustrated by the figure of the pyramid:R271 : page 103The topstone is a perfect pyramid of itself; other stones may bebuilded under it, and if built in exact harmony with all thecharacteristic lines of the topstone, the whole mass will be aperfect pyramid. How beautifully this illustrates our position asmembers of "The Seed"--"The Christ;" joined to, and perfectlyin harmony with our head, we are perfect; separated from him,we are nothing.Jesus, the perfect one, has been highly exalted, and now wepresent ourselves to him, that we may be formed and shapedaccording to his example, and that we may be built up as abuilding of God. In an ordinary building there is no "chiefcorner-stone;" but in our building there is one chief cornerstone,the "topstone," as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion achief corner-stone, elect, precious"--"to whom coming as unto aliving stone...ye also as lively (living) stones are built up aspiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritualsacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ."--1 Pet. 2:4-6.And, very soon, we trust, the union between Jesus and the body