Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] THE SPJRITU AL BIBTH 217
for their souls welfare, the external, or exoteric side of the
working of the divine law of spiritual procreation.
The neophyte stands high in soul unfoldment, and in aHain.
ed spiritual power and glory, when this state in his advancement
is reached. He is indeed a conqueror, this holy begotten
of the Lord, this spiritual one, conceived in the womb of the
celestial Mother by the blending of the po&itive and negative
life currents of the divine All ; well worthy is be to be intrusted
with power to lead and educate the race, well worthy to be
given dominion over the god of death and decay; for it is at
this point that are revealed to him the last mysteries of earth's
probationary existence,-tbose of life and death. Bound as
man now is by the fleshly covering, he cannot conceive of such
a condition; yet all-Jew, Gentile, Pagan, and Christian-must,
at some time, receive the baptism of the Spirit and be born again.
When man receives this new birth, be will find himself
litera&lly wrapped in the very center of the celestial currents
o( spiritual love, whose vibrations, by their inten11e spiritual
potency, change every atom of hie being, burn away all the
dross and coarse materials of flesh, which mu11t be changed to
finer ones before the celestial, heavenly immortal state can be
reached. When this change takes place, the exhilarating in~
flnence and sublime . understanding of the thought potencies of
the Infinite are vividly with him, and the sonl, for the moment
fr .. e from all external prt-ssure, recognizes its freedom, and
knows that, for the time, at lea.'lt, liberty has been obtained, the
goal almust won. As the new-born celf'stial chiltl draws the
first Rpiritnal breath, he reali1'.t>S that he is at the c>enter of
power, wisdom, ancl love, no longer a Hlave to time and cir~
cumRtances, but a newly c•rowned king; and he is, for the first
time, able to uttf'r a tt·ne, Hilent soul prayer, such as is always
answert'd.
The saviors who have be .. n on earth have all, we believe,
been born of a. t>eleRtial Vit·gin Mary; and it is this great
tt·uiRm that has caused the infi,Jels to point out, the, to them,
gr .. at error in the Christian helief, t!laiming, as they do, that
the religion of the ChriRtian world is bnt a borrowed one, that
at is the mudernized belief of the aneieut Pagans. They claim,
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