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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 209
lamented exceedingly in the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah,
and later on we hear of the fall of that great city, which
has become an abomination, is called a harlot, having
caused war, trouble and desolation among all the people, of
the earth.
Then, in supreme antithesis, we are told of another city
called the Ne\v Jerusalem, which occupies the honored
position as bride. In that city there is not a flowing river
but a sea of glass. It also lies upon seven hills, is ruled
over by another light giver who is called "the light of the
world/' and it is a city of peace wThere
the gates are never
closed although the precious
city is not a city
Tree of Life is within. This
of this wr orld, but a city which has come
down from heaven.
To understand this symbology, it is necessary to go back
into the far distant past when man-in-the-making had not
yet attained the development he has today. When he first
came upon this earth the dense body was built in the
Polarian Epoch, and was vitalized by the interpenetration
of a vital body in the Hyperborean Epoch. At that time
man was like the Angels, male-female, a complete creative
unit, able to create from himself by projecting
creative force which is love.
his whole
Later it became necessary for man lo evolve a brain, and
in order to accomplish that object one-half of his creative
force was turned inward in order to build the necessary
organs. From that time on, man must seek the cooperation
of some one having the other half of the sex force
available for propagation, Now he loves selfishly to obtain
the cooperation of another in propagation; the other half
of the creative force wherewith he built his brain and
larynx he also uses selfishly to think, because he cfesires to
obtain knowledge.