Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

AN IMPORTANT BOOK REVIEW.
BY H. K. Bl.'TJ,EK.
INTERNAL RESPIRATION, OR THE PLENARY GIFT OJo' THE HOLY
IIPJRIT. THE lMPKNDINO WORU>-CR1818, OR THE
BY RESPIRO. •
PRKDICTEJ> FIRF.-DJo~J,UOFH
We have received the11e books from •• The Brotherhood of
the ~ew Life," who are working on the princiilleR taught by
T. L. Harris. We hope that we have outgrown ancllt>ft hehin!l
tbat period of diminutive mental exi~tt-ncle which jncl~e" the
'fruit by the tree, condemning and ~jooting the truth hecAuAA
of the (to us) apparent error of him who eXJlrtlRRe& it,-a miR­
·take AA common in all Christendom at the preRent time; there.
fore we unhesitatingly aay, that over the 11ignature of T. L.
Harris hu been Wl'itten 110me of the grancle>tt thought of the
nineteenth oeutm·y. Now, thi& does not eulogise or justify,
neither does it oonclemn the in11trument thrcmgh whit!h it came.
From this. standpoint we will endeavor to give an nnhia11ed
opinion of the snhject matter contained in the honks under
ounsideration. These two pamphlet.s are oompanion pieoe11, ancl
ahould he read together.
The fact of the presence of God'11 lmo~ath in man ha~~ been
known to u11 for many yearR, hut we have regarcled it 1\8 a
aequenoe, and have not, therefnrt>, clwelt upon the tmhject. In
•• Internal Re11piratic10," pagt~ 69. T. L. Harrill i11 quoted ""
saying: .. Respiration is often held in a taeit 11tate in the in.
wrnal11 of the natural orgauiam. unfolding from inmo~t11 towarcl11
. outmo11t11, by ordtoJ•ed &b\geR, for even years, and until anoh
times all it ha11 WJ•onght great internal ohange11, purifying11, np·
liftinga, in the hoclily structure11. There are c~tortain indioa.tiou11
of itll interior approaoh. pl'eAenoe. and operation &!I fullowa : -
( 1) In au organitl ounviction,l\8 well 8.8 mentlll helief, that we
1\J'e in our~~elvea wholly evil: that we have 1w life or good in om·.
at-lvell aa CJ't'attu·ely existenn8!1: that all good is of the Diviu~
Life, and tht>JW~ of the Divine lnftowing: and ht>uce, thllt '!'e
are not to lmAt to onr11el Vl'K for mere ~~elf-clevelopment. hilt
wholly and exc•hJMiveJy to the Lord."
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