Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

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eth." Rev. XXI. 27. "Put on thy beautiful garments, 0 ,Jerusalem,
the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come
into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean." lsa.. LII. 1.
It is well to remember that the holy city is that body of people
who serve God. It matters not what his standing in the
church may be, no one can say," I am a child of God," while be
is sexually defiled, for he is nuder the control of the adversary:
" \Vhosoever is born of God doth nut commit sin ; for his sePCl
remaineth in him : and he cannot sin because he is born of God.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of
the devil: whosoever enple: hut if they do nut and will not serve God, but Baal,
then is the bed not defiled fur them. Fmther, we find that
marri!lge i11 not honorable fnt· tho11e sons of God who pass over
this way into the dty: "Ancl ,Jesus an11wering said unto them,
The chiltlnm of this wm·ltl marry and are given in marriage:
bnt they whidt Rhall he accounted worthy to obtain that world,
and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are
given in marriage: neither can die any more: for they are
eqnal unto the angels: anti are the children of God, being the
chiltlren uf the resurrection.'' Luke xx. 34-36.
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