Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

4~2 THE EvERLASTING CovENANT. (May
The prophet .Jer·eruiah puts this thought in form in the follow.
ing lauguagf', whit!h fully conveys the meaning of these powers
to which mt>n ally themselves: "Rut where are thy gods that
thou haRt mach~ thtle '!let them ari11e, if they can save thee in the
timt> of thy twnJ,}e: for according to thf' number of thy cities
are thy god!!, 0 .Judah." Jer. 11. 28. The interest of the
human mind and all men's f'fforts are toward saving them­
Pelves from want. dishonor, siclmes~, sorr·ow, pain, and death;
and in the pm·Rnit of the various avocations of life, they hope
to t'!IC'H}le all tlu~ ill!~ to wlrid1 fh·sh is heir, and to obtain ultilllate
happineRR.
\\' e 111 n11t not he here mult>r11too'l to mean that men should
not engage in the avocation11 of life. We mean nothing of the
kind : mt'n shonl,J labor on as tlwy are doing, and from the
Ktanupuiut uf ( io1l'll wiscl111u, the world with it11 pre11eot interest.h; fot· in taking the name of Gncl,-by taking this covenant,-we
have indeed the spirit of his life. As .JeRus saicl.
"taktl no anxious thonght fm· your life. what ye shall eat, or
what ~e 11hall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put
on:" auul again. ··Your Father kuowt>th what things ye have
neecl Hf. hefmc Jt' ask him."
When man (or· woman)has entered into this covenant relation,
whi(·h is a covenant of Jove and devotion, he has reason and a
l'ig·ltt tn exped that "whatsoever he doeth 11hall prosper". He
must l'ealize tltat the ~ph·it to which his life, hopes, and all that
he i,.. are allied, i~ the God over all gods, the ~pirit governing
all spir·its; that. therefcwe, nothing can thwart or hinder our
tiod from fultilling, in every pal'ticular, his part of the covenant.
fly the prophets he has particula1·ized even the material intert>sts
of life as heing included in this covenant; we give the following
from Zechal'iRh (vm. 11--16): "But now I will not be unto
the residue of this people as in the former days, saith Yah,·eh
of hoRts. For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give
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