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ROSICKUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
will continue until such time as we shall have evolved the
altruism and love that will liberate the Earth Spirit from
the cramping conditions of material existence, when the
necessity for guiding us shall have passed away.
QUESTION No. 91.
We are told that "God so loved tlie world that He gave
His only begotten Son, that wliosoever believeih in Him
should not die but have everlasting life/' How can we
reconcile that idea with tltc words of Christ, "1 came not to
bring peace
but a sword"'?
Answer: It is said that the "law and the prophets were
until Christ," and there are four steps whereby man lifts
himself to God. At first, when lie awakens to a conscious-
ness in the Physical World and is in the savage state, he
finds himself surrounded by other men, who by the very
stress of circumstances are forced to fight for life, men
among whom "might is right" ; here he learns to rely upon
his own strength to save him from the onslaughts of wild
animals and other men. But he perceives around him the
nature powers, and of them he is afraid, for he knows their
ability to kill and his own impotence to cope with them. He