Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

132 SOME PRACTICAL SUGGJ.:STIONS. [September
If the "creeping serpent" is repelled at any of these points,
the fires of that deceptive passion sweep away all the good resolutions
of the intellect, and whirl the entire consciousness into
a seething flauu~ of desire, which places man wholly at the
mercy of the same old "piercing serpent" lua·king in the
organism upon which he has centea·ad his love passion. Then
he is in a condition where this old deceiver will picture to his
mind the Elysian fields of heavenly delights and of god-like
purity, all of which are only the serpent'11 lie to deceive, drag
down the neophyte, and place him under the la.w of generation:
in fact, it is the law of generation which produces in him that
yearning desire for companionship. The Esoteric student
should remember that ho mu11t have no desire but that which
aa·iBes in the mind and will of God; in othe1· w01·ds, no desire
but to know and do the will of God.
\Vhen you dedicated your life to God and llommenced to
live for the attainments, you started out to return to Eden f1·om
which our fathe1· Adam was driven because of trl\nsgression.
If you conquea· the scortatot·y passion within yolll'self and
gain the right to anter the san a. gathe1·ing tOgetheJ•
of a hotly of people. who, tlu·oug-h long anti pel'Ri!!k>nt
efflll't, have pul'ified tlu~i1· live!! antl unified thei•· ctm!leiousness
with the conseiouRneRs of God, and whn, tlu·on~h antl hy the
power of his Spia·it, have again organizetl the Etlen of G()(l, the
Temple divine. C'an that eountea·partal •·elatinnship he gnartletl
and protected from all invasion fl-om a wol'ltl of sense.
Therefore it becomes necl!ssary that Esote1·ic students
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