Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

214 THE SPIRJTU.AI. BIRTH [November
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of people able to live in perfect harmony with their Creator,
-a peop~e who would, through obedience to the leadings of
the Spirit, so refine their physical bodies as to make of them a
living 'temple for the indwelling of the Spirit. When this
state can be attained by a body of people, then the highest
possible ultimates can be reached while still in the physical body,
until, through the powers of high 11piritual thought and aspir&o
tion, it becomes so refined as to be no longer material but
spiritual, and the possessor able to go or stay as he 11ee11 fit :
the law of use will alone keep him a server among men. Thi11
is the state that .Jesus pet·ceived, when, with prophetic
vision he looked down through the ages and perceived that
more exalted states of perfection would be reached by
man, than even he-greater by far than any of earth's sons
who had preceded him-could at that time attain; and, per.
ceiving this the fruit of his own life and high and ennobling
spiritual teachings, he was led, in the joy of his heart, to exclaim,
"Greater works shall be do." For well he knew that
the growth of man is eternal, and that, as knowledge increases,
the mind11 of the most highly developed of earth would be able
to penetrate more deeply into the limitless stot·ebouse of divine
wisdom, and to dt·aw thereft·om understanding of mm·e cmnplex
and potent law: and that, as a united holly, through the tremendous
power of a united mii!d and pmpose, thi11 Cbt·i~t of
the new age would po11sess gt·eater power than was J>llSMihle for
a Chl'ist to obtain (stauding alone) 1900 years ago.
This con~cious union of the spiritual man with hiM Creator
means far more than that ecstatic Rtate uf mental and 11piritual joy
caused by the interior illumination whic~h Ct)ltles tt) every truly
devout and earnest sonl of every dmrc~h and creed. and whit>h
has mi~led many earne11t worket·s in G11d's vineyard to believe
that the goal of spit·itual unfoldment was rea