Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

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knowledge, wi~•lom, and nndeJ·standiug. The prophet says,
•• My people are destroyed for lack of knowlt•dge." Nowhere
in the ~eriptures 1lo we •·ead that they are de:~truyt>d for lack
of love. Still .J~sus Mai1l that. ''God is love:" and the worl1l
has shown us that, for thPFie centurie~. the people who han~
bt'en focalizing upon the principle of love have beeu the ~notl
au~
of binding antl hol.Iin~ togetlwr lm!!ban.I and wife. families,
mnnieipalities, gtwt't·nments, and nations.
Bnt. intet·int· to thi!l hody. the1·e has alwa~·R heen tht'! struggle
nf mind to ft·ee itself hom the binding limitation of law-m'1ker11
atul •~•·ePd-maker~; and. as years 1'1111 on. a111l generation after
gt'neration has b ... eu etlncated in the thought that thi~ funrth
principle in all its mani(e!ltation is God. thet·efore goocl, the
world has been in a mental attitude to •~all the g'l'eat Univet·sal
Mother good, hut the great Unive•·sal Father evil.
Those mind~ whieh ha\'e rehelh•tl a~aiust the hin.ling limitation
of the mothet· pt·inciple Cohe~inu. atlll have allow ... d themselve!l
to think. hut, not heing able to pnt their thon~ht in fm·m,
-t.o think intl'lligtmtly.-have follo'¥1-'ol the hlind impnlse!l uf
theit· own natureR, have become ana•·chist~, nutlawR, l ... a.tet'!l in
rt•hcllionil, and. in gent'ral, the destroyers of the nl•l KO that the
new or•ler may he eRtahlished upon a higher principle,-F ... rmentation.
~eeing that the Rt.r·uggle against the CuheRi ve prindple
h:~s t·esulted so diRa.~tt'IIIJsly to tho!!e who have hac} the temerity
to rehel a){ainRt it, the goocl people of the lan•l fear to think,
lest Rimilar results befall them. How long will our heavenly
Fathet·, with all the powet·s of his great mitul, he feared as an
e\'il, tyr:~nt, and great destroyet·? when~a.~ the v•ry Rnh11tauce
nf our being is the e~senee of his life, gathe1·ed hy the divine
Mothet·, or the fonrth J)J'ineiple, arHl huund or pre~erv~l in organic
form.
Be~anRe we love that ~lothe•· pritwiple an1l h:~te and fear
tliat nf the FaLher,-the wry qualities of out· own life,-the
life within us. like the still water· in the pool. hellomeR mala•·ions,
hreeding within us evil imagining!! of evet·y description: and
the very qualities that she has been gathering are escaping as
vapm·s from the binding gr:~sp of the fourth prindple. The
very pritwiple that we love is failing in her Mllstantly renewed
effor-ts to maintain the old ot·der of things,-geueration; there-
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