Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

THOUGHT POLARIZATION AND TRUE REGENERATION.
BY Jo'RANK E. WAY, M. D.
That there ill a first Great Cause, ruling the world of spirit
and ot matter, f~w of my readers will deny. We may, perhaps,
but dimly comprehend that Cause; for only to a limited extent
can the finite mind g•·asp the idea of the Infinite. The accu-
• racy aml perfection of our conception of Deity will wholly depend
upon the extent of our spi1·itual unfoldment; for just in proportion
as the spi•·itual nature is developed by con11cious experience,
and the 11piritual eyes opened by the illumination fi'Om within.
can the mind analyze and understand spit·itual things. S"piritual
unfoldment is largely a matter of development by spE>cial
gymna~tics calculated to bring into active use facultie11
which have heen lying d01·mant through lack of use. Every
man pn11sessf'~ these faculties to a g•·eater or less degree, but the
·conditions of modem civilization are such, together with the adverse
psychic conditions produced by the mate•·iali:-~tic trend of
nineteenth-century thought, that only the physical faculties
have been brought into active and prominent use, while the
spiritual faculties have been smothea·ed.
AR a disulled musde soon hecomes weak and atrophied, 110
with a diRu!ied sense oa· faculty; an!l as the atrophied musde
can again he developed hy proper gymn:\ll~ic;;, sn with the lost
faculty. Among the exercises be~t calculatt>d to arouse the
sleeping spiritual senses, in efficaey none ext~el:-~ continued
prayer. P1·a_yea· turns tlie mintl toward God, lifts the Kpidt up
towat·d Deity, hrings the soul in touch with its Creator, and
cnncentrate~.< the thoughts nn the Great Cause of being. As a
'spiritual exercise, it alnne will suffice to make the seeker after
illumination conscious of the existence within himself of a spirit
which owns the Great Spi1·it of the universe as its Father.
As a secontl exerciRe for the spiritual faculties, let the beginner
pass out into the stillneRs of a starry night, and, leaving all
temporal ca1·es behintl him, contemplate the vastness of the uni.
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