Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

18H7.] TuE SEVEN CuEATin: ParscrPLE~. 391
able to sense the qualities of the minds around him, jt~st so far,
by a perlect surrender of Relf to God, and by a centralization
of all his loves and desires upon the mind and will of the Infinite,
will he be enabled to become conscious of the mental
and life atmosphere of the Everlasting Father. The toys of
ear\h and the mt-re 11t>nse pleasures thereof will sink into utter
insignificance, and he will become aware that. the greatest
pleasure he has enjo)·ed in the senllual world wouhl now be
pain to him.
As he is enabled to inerease , hi11 capaeity to sense and know
the things of the cause world, all his realization of pleasure
will be ultimated in the t·ealm of love, knowledge. wisdom, and
mulerstanding: and power will he the result,-a thing of usP,
a111l neellllary to that condition. 1 t will, therefort-, be limited
only hy the needs of the occaRion, and must nevt>r be songht
for any other pmpose ot· all lUI end in itself; otherwiRt>, the indivitlnal
will become J)(lllitive to the very mind and life currents
that he is st>ekin~. an!l thus will be incapable of sensing and
knnwing tlwm.
By tlevel.lped and refined sensihilities, and by the ability t.o
•·ise into and live in the consciuusne11s of the cause world, all the
facultiell, de11ires, and 11en11ibilities will he brought into perfect
harmony with the mind and will of God, and, consequently,
with the ohjt>