Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

230 BRTF.FA. [November
things harm them by virtue of law ; ~nd so, in accOJ)(lance with
the laws of mind, certain things will bring certain results.
As Brother Pyle bas just said, "In the laws of attainment,
there are things conducive to success and there are things
which hinder success : onfl brings us chastisement, the other
justification."
When you have taken that name, and have declared your
manhood, your majority, that you are no longer set·ving
~he god of generation, but that "you will be what yon will to
be," then comes the chastisement for error ; in othet· words,
then come the evil and inharmouious fm·ces re!lnlting from
broken law. Befttre this, yon were moving under mind force
of the god of creation; there was the harmoniou!l influence,
the protecting baud of the gr·eat loving Mother and the devot-.
ed Father tenderly earing for yon: but thi11 no longer I'Xi~ts fm;
you after you have stepped out from under that lnve arul mue:
and have said "I will take the dominion ; I will be a father to
the fatherless, a mother to the mother·lt'ss: I will be your ;~a vim·:
I will Rtand in the place uf that Divine PreRerwe ; I will manife~tt
to them thy name and thy law."
X ow, remember· that cha!ltisement is withont hittflrneRII; lmt
there is no protecting hand to t·elieve you . ft·om rect>iving the
full force of the hrokt'n law: beeanse yon are to he str·•m:r. you
are to be men, sons of Gml. having power with (JO(l antl with
mau, and over the fort·es nf natur ... pr·evalling on the t>arth as
pr·iests atul kings. :nul yon ar·e to wm·k thr·ou~h and h.v the
power uf l:tw.-clivine law. Tbt>t•t•furP if you. who art' to t:~k ..
the11e power·s in yom· own h:uul!l, l11·eak the l:\ws uuder whic ~ h
they operate, the rnme sevet·e will he yonr puniRhml-'nt: fot·
there is no prott-'cting hantl to shi .. ltl yon. Yon havf' stepped
out from under CIIVI~t· an•l are likl-l a tr·ee in the open field,
wher·e the iull blast uf the storm ~~au 11trilep down upon it: it mn'lt sta1ul alone. When
it was in the midst of the Wtlotl!!. statuling amongst the many,
it st~arcely ~felt' the force of the st111·m. \\'hen unmoved ynu
are able to meet the fieree stortllS and the might.,y tm·natloes of
yout· own creatiou, then yon are beginning to he a creator, and
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