Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1897.] THE EvERLASTING CovJo:NANT. 443
hills, hut he is not God of the valleys ; therefore will I deli \'er
all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that
I am Yahveh." The Christian world ehange the phraseology
somewhat, but express the same thought whan they say, ''God
is the God of spiritual things, but not the God of material inwrests.
God has provided means by which our souls may be
saved, but he does not interfere with the things of the material
world: all that is left wholly to us."
The expr('ssion, "Wealth is power," is a common one; ancl,
as the words •· power" and "god,. are Kynonymous, therefore the
Christian worlcl acknowledge that wealth is god, and, consequently,
they carry out to the letter the words of Isaiah (11. 8,
H): "Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of
their own hancls, that which their own fingers have mac.le: anti
the mean man howeth down, and the great man humbleth him­
Kelf: therefore forgive tl1em not."' In the recognition of the
pc1wea· of wealth to keep them fa-om want, to 1mpply all the neecl>~
uf the hody, men recognize the image (idol) of gold and silvea·,
stoeks and bonds, houses ancl lands, mills s:mcl faetories, anti all
the wm·kmanship of men's hands, as the god which alone iR able
to take c•a.a·e of them :wcl supply all their needs in the time of
trial. They aa·e.nnlike the pata·iarch .Jacob, who, when he bles11•
ed his son. saicl, "The God whieh feel me all my life long, unto
this clay, !.less the larl.'" Thu~ God's people ar~ violating the
serving the gocls
(powel's) of guhl ancl silver, and the wm·k of their own hands,­
.. that whidt theia· own fingers h:we macle."
There :u·c! many good ami substantial rea.