Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

248 WHAT 18 KARMA? [Deuember
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ing theory than the p~nt coloring given to what is called
l{arma?•
· All unregenerate men at all times are the aubjects of demoniac
pcmeasion. The evil spirits whose name is Legion, the evil
spirits who make ua deaf to the voice of heaven, and dumb to
whatsoever the truth demands of us: the evil spirits who make
ua blind to spiritual light, who drive us into the high mountains
of self-love, and torture us in the tombs of our dead and
buried aspirations, who betray their presence in us by their loucl
voices and violent manners and cruel conduct, who cut us
&Jternately into the ocean of lies and the burning fires of
lust-alas! all these evil spirits are familiar denizens in the
bosoms of the whole human race. Some of them are so firmly
planted in us and so powerful, that they cannot be cut out by
the diaciples, or the teachings of truth, but only by •• prayer ancl
fasting;" that is, by intimate spiritual oommunion with the
Lord and an utter abstinence froan sin.
Evil spirits know the sphere of our Lord Jeans, and fear it
ancl hate it. When we open the door of our souls to Him,
and He enters into na, He takes upon himself our atates of life-,
thus bearing our sins in his own body, and coming into oont&ct
with the demons who a&R&ult us. They bt>g to be released
from the torture of his presence, and pass out of us with all
their swinish elements, and plunge into their congenial heJI,
leaving ua clothed and in onr right mind11. Thf!Re ph"enomena
are continually tram1piring in every form and degree. throughout
the Chri11tian woa·ld. And yt>t bow often the old proprium
in ns, clinging to it11 swine, ami resi11ting a full, ft~ and perfect
aalvaticm from sin, crie11 ont enough, and begs the Lord to
depart out of onr COI\IItll!- Wm. H. Holcombe, M. n.
• We do nnt write thu beoaue we wiah to attack thia people, but beoaue F..oterie
atndenta Are 0011tinaally writing to know the dUfe- ~weea E.otericilm
and Theoeophy. People who are eomewbat familiar with both li- of teaehiuc,
- in their little reading great similarity betw..en the two, and eooclnde that the
only difference ia that Theoaophy ia better organized and more popular ; and 110
they unite themll8lna with that organization, and freely drink from thi1 poieooed
epring of eophiatry, eweeteoed. aa it ia, by the honey of many ~ uad gruel
trut.ba. W" mut, therefore, for the uke of truth, apeak that which we feel to be
richt,-yea, that which ia our duty to give to the peoplR.
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