Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1897.) lb:W..\RDS AND PUNISII)JENTS. 405
The object of all religious 11ystems based upon the laws of
life has been to teach man the lesson of life, that he may be
ahle to rise out of his present condition, whet·ein the life gained
from lower organisms is lost through the sex and returns to the
lower ordt>rs of creation. All theRe 11ystems ha\·e taught that,
in the contt·ol of t.he ~~exnal fluitls is found the means of advancement
at1R8, and death.
1 f the system a~~similates ft·om the fol)d more life than is
exhan11ted by tl1e physit~al aucl lllt'Utal t'ffnrts, aml if, through
the process of ~onservaticm, this life htwomes rE>fined to a point
whenl it can tw longt~•· he exhanstecl, this reserve Leing constantly
addetl to, then life will he continnnns, tleath will be
clwatt'd and the grave laughed at, fur life everla11ting will he
attainecl. • Thill i11 indeecl a summary of the teat~hings of the
llihle, ancl clonhtlt>llll of the 11et·iptm·e11 of other religions; for
the tt·nth is ulwap; tl'llth, and that found in a heatht>n hook
aucl tmth a11 Wt' t·ec•cive it ft·om the Ch .. istiau llihle are equally
eli vine.
This apparent digres111ion hom onr theme of "ltewards and
PnniKlunentK" is ue