Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

402 REW .\ Rl>~ ANO PIJNISIJ:\IENTS. [March
ally one of weaker anti more 1lependent miml. that anger will
mollt perceptibly affect the life f01·ces of the weaker. It may
eauRe a consdonl!neKs of weaknQlll!, of fear, of sicknells, or may
even pt·odnce death. Knowing this the effe,~t of the human
mind upon a human organiKm, what may w~ presume would be
the effect upon a man were it po!!sible for the Mind that created
worltls to he angry with him "! lie woultl undoubtedly immetliately
cease to exist.
If the wayward chiltl tloe" nut belie\'e that the parent who
punishes it, is in a measnre, angt·y with it, the reproofs ha\'e hnt
little effect: bnt suppose, while r·ept"Oviug bet· little one, a
mother seea a poillonoul! serpent abunt to bite the child, woultl
she not clasp the cbiltl tn her Uighbor,
wrapped in their own !lelf-l"ightt!UII!IUell>~, may n•1t ~~~ willing
to admit that God loves the enemy whu ha.-4 Wl"llnged them
as he loves them; but it is evi,ltmt hom the law of life, whidl
is sustained in the o•·ganiKm by love, that it i>~ a Fathet.'s t>qnal
love which upholds all.
\Vhile we feel safe in assuming th:\t Go,J loves all his
creaturea, yet we have rea.'lon to !Jelieve that, froto 'he Htatulpoint
of absolute law, God's lo\'e fot· a living creatnre ill emnmensurate
with the amount and quality of life in itl4 ut·ganism.
'Ve may say that God loves not the dead. but the li\'ing,
and the living in proportion a, they live. For instance, let one
who is healthy and stl'Ong conserve all the see1l for two or three
month!!, he will btt fiJle,J with lifQ anti vigor, and. provitletl he
holds his mind in an attit.u1le of devotion toward (T,IIJ, a realization
of the neat·tw!ls and l"eality of the spit·it wot·ld will begin
to tlawn upon him; if he then lolle the !leetl, there rolls in
upon him a tlarknes!l an1l a conseimumt>ss of condemnation.
In the beginning God saitl, ''Let us make man afte1· our
likeness;" and again he said, •· l\ly wortl that goeth forth out
of my mouth, it shall not l'eturu unto me void: but it shall accompli:~h
that whit·h I plea!ole, aud it shall prosper in the thing
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