Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

2!)6 Gon's REVEAU:D \VILL. [Decem her
an image in the likeness of a, to ht-r, kingly man,-her ideal,­
whom she would gladly serve ( notwitht~tauding God'd command
to the contrary. Ex. XX. 4, 5), and give herself to in
generation, ~his mental attitude prepares her body for genet·ation,
and the moonly weakness appeat·s. Tbu11she is polluted hy
her heart's idol. Still anothet• parallel is drawn between the
people and the individual woman: "The city sheddeth blood in
the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols
against herself to defile herself. Thou at·t become guilty in
thy Llood that thou hast shed ; and hast defiled thy11elf in thine
idols which thou bast made." Ezekiel XXII. 3, 4. And again,
"How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone aftet·
Baalim? See thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done.
• • • • All they that set>k hE.'r will not weary themsE'Ives:
in her month they shall find her." ,Jer. II. 23, 24. And month
by month her idol will continue to find and pollute her until
she tni'Ds from Baal to God.
No woman afflicted with her moonly l'ieknei'\,. CRs,
that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain
thoughts lodge within thee?" .Jer. IV. 14.
Surely the words of the prophet at·e to-day tt·ue: .. Her
pt·iests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy
things: they have put no differenee between the holy and profane,
neither have they shewed diffet·ence between the unclean
and the clean." Ezekiel xxn. 26. How n1any of the millionR
of the chureh-going people of the pre11ent day have been shdwn,
by their pasttn·s and priests, that nnclt~anness whidt separates
them from their Go1l? They are born in the clnu·ch, are
man·ie1l hy the chureh, raise a family and die, and have not
heen tol1l what their undeanness is, its cause, and result.
But all this will be changed when thPy retum to God to
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