Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

BRIEFS,
FROM REMARKS MADE BEFORE THE ESOTERIC FRATERNITY,
BY THE PRESIDENT.
We, as an organization, are becoming more completely one
body than the external con:~ciousness or the intellect is aware
of; and as we draw nearer together, not in the physical, hut
with the mind centered on God, the body becomes more fully
adapted to its function. In the time that is to he, toward
which we are all striving, we shall all live from God in the
mo11t absolute sense. The Spirit of the Highest will he the
spirit, the life, within the veins, the nerves, and within the
mind con11ciousnesl!. But this is obtained, not by an effort on
our part to form into an organized body, hut through each individual
seeking perfect unity with God, and through his having
11. perfect realization that his covenant relation is complete
and is accepted, and that the Spirit of the Highest is guiding,
governing, and controlling every thought and every act of his
life. Then it will he seen that every member o£ the body will
he in harmony with every other member, and that, when any
individual is called upon to do a work, the love, sympathy, and
the mental energy and power. of eve•·y other member will be
awakened while that one is active, so that he will have the
P'>wer of all the body. It is not by being anxious about accomplishing
this that the condition will obtain; hut it is
through and hy every member being perfectly pa11sive and
ohedient to the min1l and will of God.
" llJI:'RRed i11 the man that walketl1 not in the counsel of the ungodly.
nor 11tandeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the
!leat of the R