Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

216 THE SPIRITUAL BIRTH [November
has proTen himself worthy to have dominion over all the things
of the earth.
In order to be bot!l again and to be recognized as one fit to
be entrusted with the powers of thft immortals, the neophyte
must, by obedience to the Christ laws, gain control of the crea..
tive forces implanted in the Logos, or word, from which our
world has been created. This power in the Logos is that
which makes the grass grow, the flowers bloom, and which
imparts the wonderful instinc' that we perceive manifested in
the animal world, the force which compells all nature-vegp.
table, animal, and human-to reproduce its kind, forcing all
creatures of earth to obey its mandates absolutely, aud to increase
and multiply and fulfill their mission of growth, and to
fill the earth with living entities. The command of Him who
created the earth was,'" Increase aud multiply." The power to
enforce that command was given to the god of generatiun, which
is the power of creation that God pli&Ced iu the word sent f01·th
by him in the beginning, and from which our world bas been
evolved. This god of generation haM dominion over all planetary
life; therefore the neophyte can well understand what a
giant be must cope with, if be woulcl himself be a creator, able
to compel this gud to be his servant. and able to wot·k amllive
indepen,Jently of all exte•·nal iuflueru:es except the miud of
God ; able to command obedit'nce through and by the power of
the mind nf the Infinite, of which he is a part.
If man would be born again, he must HO refine the particles
of his flesh as tu sense the mind currents of God himatelf. He
must, through the powe1·s gained through continued soul a .. ~piration,
draw himself out. as it were, frmn the great human family,
sever all connection therewith, and ally himSt!lf to GrKl. and the
huly ones who form the Ct')estial body in the heavens. When
man can do this perfe,~tly. he places him!lelf in spi1·itual con­
K pottmcy. in the wmnb. as it wert>,
of the G()(J.Mothf'r. the divine Mary, the sacred Virgin of the
ancient as well »S m,
who, althcmgh perchance knnwing little about the ta·ue met.hod
of wan's redemption, yet were permitkd to partly uudea·staud,
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