Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1897.] VIBRATION. 455
first principle, namely, Force; or, in other words, he is admitted
as a neophyte into that holy order, when his mental attri·
butes are in harmony with the spirit, or deific thought, which
controls that principle. He enters the second degree when his
nature becomes attunt-d to the power or principle of Discrimination,
the second in the order of seven. The dominant note
of the principle that vibrate11 in harmony, or perfect rhythm,
with the individual, marks the degree in which he stands; or, in
other words. it indicatf's the round of spiritual unfoldment
which the soul has reached.• This is so because, when man's
nature vibrat~s in perfect accord with a principle, he is in a
condition to receive into his organism a deific thought, which,
being of a nature superior to any controlJiog him, gives him
grt>att'r capaach higher altitudes of inspiratiou,
Hnnce in his Creator. We should
• When the words "pPtfPet. hamwny " or "perfect rhythm" &1'8 uaed, the
writer speaks from the st..ndpoint of the ultimation of the degreee; for a peraon is
Admitted into the degrees R8 soon as hiA mine! becomtlll sufficiently receptive to begin
the work of harmonizing him~lf with the higher principles of spirit. The
" perfect'' harmonization, at least in the present discordant condition of the world,
can only obtain after all the seven degr.~es have been reached ; or, in other words,
after the individual is sufficiently attuned to respond to the mental and spiritual
ttualitiP.s of the seven &t.'\ge& of unfoldment. See Editorial, in this number, on the
mWiical vibratio1111 of the Solar renlm.-(Ed.
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