Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

~F}DTERIC.
A
Magazine or
ADVANCED AND PRACTICAL l::SOTERIC THOUGHT.
Vo1.. X.
APKIL 19to MAV 20.
No.ll.
THE EVERLASTING COVENANT.
BY H. E. Bl'TLER.
In the previon!l number of this article we endeavored to show
that whatever a m•m truRtR in as a mean!! of deliverance from
any of the illt~ of life, whether as a mean!! of supplying the needs
of the llO•lv, of g:tinin~ honor, the re!!pect of his fellow man, or
lwa lth.-it mattt>rR not what it may he in which a man trusts·.
that. in )1(1 far a!! he fl'll)lt!l in it, he~!ollles his god.
Fo•w I'P:tlize tlw fal'f. thRt thPI'e is a spirit in evE'rything. Let
an incliviclnal Jive in po\'eJ·ty all his life, or for many years, and
iu~•!mne tmclclt'nly po~~e!l~e•l of wealth. whatever hi11 integrity or
fixt'•lue!l!l of pl'incipl~ m:ty be. there will come over him a con­
RPiun!lnPss of add"'t powPI'. The 11pirit of wt>alth stands distinct
fl'()m all other 11piJ·it foi'I'PR in tlw wol'ld. and the1·efore, even in the
t~pi1·itual !leiHIP, it m:t.v he n•ll'l't'l!tly denominated ''a god." So
in every department of hnm:tll life there ill a !!pirit fo1·ce governing
each and eve•·.\' int.,•·e>~t.: a1ul th;tt !!pil·it is strong or weak as
there are mMny o1· few who!!e lh•e!l ar·e governed by it. It is a
fact in natnre that these spirit fnrces ~nve1·n the human family.
jnlltifying the chargt> of the Jll'ophet that they are men's gods.
Hnwever, the will of man, whh!h i~ hi!! intellectual conclusion,
may tnrn from nne and dJOose anothel'; but, if he does not ac.
t!ept the God of the nni ve1·se, it is an utte1· impossibility for him
to rt!ject all of them; for they are the .~Jiiritus muncli, and were
he to sever connection with them without allying himself to
Yahveh, his budy wouhl immediately pe1·ish. Therefore the continned
and emphatic reite1·ation by the prophets, that man
11hould turn from the gods of this world to Yahveh, the God of
the uni verRe.
Digitized by Coogle