Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES OF VIBRATION. 199
bnt the intellect may entet· into a state of spirituality, in proportion
as it frees itself from personality. Me1·ely intellectual
knowledge contains no real love. Heal love belongs to the
Divine; and not until our bodies are tuned and soul awakened
to vibrate in perfect unison with this law of lnve can we reach
or realize Divinity, o1• have any practical knowledge of spiritual
laws or things.
The sphere of the nhje11tive or extemal &.l!tivity and achievement
lwlong11 to personality and thin~s. The power of doing
and knowing belnng:4 and comeR from the soul, ot· subjel~ti ve
sphere. The spiritual puwerK-intuitinn, iu>~piration, seership,
etc.-transl•eud in theit• normal activity and development the
mental powers in theit· highest activity on the set1se plane, as
nnwh as the ment;ll powers transcend the brute consciou!iness
ou the plane of the animal kiug,lnm. On the Reuse plan~ man
i!l Rnhjetlt to the ):,w a111l spirit nf the external plane, and its
means nf acquiring knnwledge is in an1l through the senseR.
Some writerK h;\Ve said that we think th1·ough every part of
the body; and. reeently, to prove this asRCrtion, anatomists
have disl!ove•·ed the grey matter at the en1ls of the fingers, and
those who are ai~Cll!ltomed to finger the key board of a piano
know that the fingers have a memory that belong wholly to
themselves.
On the higher, or subjective plane, man iR subj~t to the law
atul spit·it nf the inner wm·hl, the kingdom of God, and 1·eaches
itK kuowle•lges thrnugh the realiz:,tion of the law nf love, sympathy,
brotherhoml, and stlrvice. On the sense plane rivah·y is
ever the domin:mt factor, in the nncnn!lcious evolution of the
inllividul\lizing nf the in!lividnal, the weaker succnmuing to the
strnnger in nhtl