Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

l897.] AN IMPORTANT RooK n~:vn:w. 327
Mr. Harris here express• the attitude of mind requisite to
Jlrotlnc.e in the individual a self-surrender and conRecration to
G01.l and hi11 will, thn11 enabling the fulfillment of the word of
the prophet: •· Thon (God) al110 hast wrought all our works in
1111;" for as soon as all resistance in the individual to the Di.
vine Spirit is rt'moved, t.he pure Kpiritual soul, the aon of God
·in man, begins to here. When,
however, the external and creative will in man i11 surrendered
to the divine u11e11, that breath comes into external oonROiousnesll.
· The hook entitletl "'Internal Re11piration" is mainly com.
po11ed of the experiences of tbo~~e who are opening into the in.
terior breath. The anthor'11 thought npon the 11uhjeot ia good ;
hut the letters of exJ:>erienoe nearly all show that there hu
ht>t>n a g•·os11 mi11ctmception on the part of the adherent11 of thia
thnnght, whwh ha11 protluoed a grave. if not fatal error : for, in
c•onne••tion wit.h all theRe exJ:>eriences, the•·e occUI'Il the ideal of
the ounsoinnsue&ll of the connterpartal life. While we acoept
as 11. truth, that aft.er men have overcome anti banished every
vestige of the ultl IICcll'tato•·y passion. and have reaclhetl a state
. of angel it! purity and nnity with Divinity. God will aay of 11uoh,
as he did of Adam. •· I perceive that it is not good for man to
he alone, I will make a help met>t fur him;" yet if any effort i11
nuule by man (ur wmnan) to enter in tel that cmmterp1utal relation
hefore the lAAt tt·ac~ of crt!ative pa1111ion i11 tlra.dioated
from the OJ·gani.un, he will at onee npen up into and begin to
insJ:>il·e from the nnuulane or