Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1897.] THE SEVEN CREATIVE PmNCIPLES. 387
individual simply possesseR those abilities which belong to the
habit of the animal man. This class have no knowledge of enjoyment:
they have merely an ideal of its pursuit.
To such the spit-it o( devotion becomes a fanatidsm: to some,
an insane raving; to other», an idle dream. In either case the
hody and soul are plunged deep into the river of generation;
and, rushed on hy th~ ideal of senRe pleasureR, they are whirled
down the 11tream of life, until they are lost in the great ooean
whence they came. Thus following the impulse of the senseR
is the most effectual and speedy way of destroying them. The
Hiudn and the Ro-calletl Theosophist a1·e, then, aR they claim,
really following the right ro:ttl to the tleMtruct.ion of the RenRe
hotly: hut with it, they destl'O,Y what God has accomplislwtl in
tht> work of creation and evolution.
:\s the perfet•tiou of the seuses aud their harmonization with
tlu· laws of u:ttm·e, nf miutl, and of spirit. enable the iutlivitlual
to !'t't' all things from the pm·t>ly natural standpoint, or, in
ot ht·t· words, as they rt>ally are, so the iuclinatinu of the 11enses
tlominatt>d by passion lt>ncl11 to pt>rverRion and distortion,-a
tlistnrtion fl'nm which proceed the must honible imaginations.
The lliutln picture of Ni1·vana i:~ familiar to many,-that of a
gigautic head allll fat~e of most horrible Jll'oportions, and men
and women, iu a constant stream, flyiug through space and
into that mouth with the g1·eat jagged teeth, whe1·e they are
being tlevom·t>d Ly this mouster image of their god. In orde1·
that the pictm·e may he more completely in keeping with the
tenihly tli;;tortetl imagination from wbid1 it sprang, the victims
of this image are stiautiful pictures tlrawu hy the
~pirit through the 1-lehJ·ew prophets and see1·s.
The telegraphic wii'I:'S of sensation form the uen·on11 sy»tem;
anti hetween every joint, and lwtwl:'en every sense function,
there is a 11pot of gl't'Y matter whose nffit•e it is to sense and
define the 11eusations lwought to it hy the nervous system.
By the regenerate method of refiuing the qualities of life and
intensifying the st>nl'ibilities, the mind is enahled to refuse the
evil, o1· the lowe1· sensations, anti to focalize or pol:u·ize all the
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