Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

468 VITAL LovE. (April
the nourishment that enableOJ it to grow. h is not that passion
which rule~ generation in the relations of man and woman.
We admit that that principle lays bold upon the principle of
love for its own purposes; but love pure and simple, lies back
of and beyond all such things ; therefore the truth of the word11,
" God is love."
In all life there is an inner conRcioullnf'llll ; and shall we not
say, an involuntary oonsciouane1111? This is estMteially true of
men of all grades; and the higher their dt-velnpment, the more
they become aware that th~re is an involuntary portion of their
mind, like a magnet to itt- keeper, f&Ktenecl upon friends, certain
auociations, and, in fact. upon all the oonditions of life
that. to their peculia•· organism, are re11lly desirable.
We can only illuah·ate this in physlcRI form by regarding
the individual as an elet•tric battery, and this inviaihle love attraction
as a wire connecting it with a pat·ticular ubj~t. By
virtue of thi11 magnetic attraction, the individual, without any
thought or volition 011 his part. holda tc1 that ubject, and draws
to bimaelf and incorporates its qualities of life. He inapires,
by means of this magnetic co01wotion. the elements of mind
which will support and bnild up his own individuality in tJ;oae
partic.ular qualities poBAesaed by the objt>ct of his love.
Thi11 principle of love in thH human organi11m i11 like the
roots of vegetation. Vegetation loves the earth -the world
and the elAmtmtR therein-with all the powers within it, he.
cauKe it liveR from th~ wm·ld, drawa all ita 11ustenance there.
from. Thi11 expre11ses and illustrates, as nearly &II worda can
oonvey the idea, the action of this inner vita&) principle of love.
It matters not in what direction that which is commonly called
desire ia turned (for desire is the mental action produced by
a very strong attraction of the love life), it lays hold upon ita
object through the cre11tive power of the magnet love, and
begins to feed, u it were, and to build up the qualitiet1 of its
life, its thought, from the thing de~ired. Now, when Jobb uid,
"Love not the world, neither the thing11 that are in th~ world,'•
he expreased, in an explanatory form, what hia Master hAd
before said; namely," Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
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