Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

THE NARROW WAY.
BY T. A. WILLISTON
•·ADd a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, 'I1le way of
holin- ; the nnt·lean ..ball not p- over it ; bnt it shall be for tit.- : the wayfaring
men, though fools, shall not err therein." laaiah xxxv. 8.
Grand old Isaiah, one of the noblest of God's messengers, in
tlltl above quotation truthfully expresses· the c>ondition man must
attain, if he desire to enter the highway of hnline88. As no
nnclt-an ~bing can enter the Narrow Way, all who would walk
therein mnst. of necessity, purify themat!lvea hy living in harmo.
ny with the laws of God, must free them11elves from evet·y taint
of 11iu and matedalism. In order that a life of pure and holy
aapiration may he lived, every evil thought and desire, every
impure imagining, must be eradicat"P.d from the mind. If man
ia unclean in any particular, he cannot live a righteous life.
cannot be at peace with God. He muat become apiritnal in
m·1ler to !'omprt-hend the }lllrpose of God, fnr God is spirit.
The time fnr the gathering of the ripene•l souls of thi11 agP.
haa arriv~.J. Thnusand11 throughout the land have awakentou
to the fact that f.'arl hi~· plt>asnres are but (lt•lnaions, which do not
hdn~ the reaults hoped fur. Men and womt>n nf all ci~Rf's and
f'rPeds are beginning to re:~lize that their present mode of li-ving
hrings more pain tlum pleasure. Tllt'y intuiti \'ely feel that
there is sometbiug higher for them to attain, than the amRRII·
ing of wealth ; some uohler purpose tn servP, than the selfi,.Jt
gratification of the promptings of theit· lnwer natUJ·e. The
honors that man can confer have lost their charms for them;
their soul yearns after that divine Father-Mother love, which
alone has power to satisfy the hmging11 of the interior nature.
To such THE EsoTERIC has heen e11pecially sent. It brings to
them a message of pea('e and love. To-day it stands a.M a
beacon, whose beams a1·e slowly pierdng the dark veil of doubt
which has fot· agf.'s enveloped onr fair and beautiful earth.
The gratification of the lnwer nature has so benumbed the finer
sensibilities of man. I'O clouded hi11 hrain. that it is well-nigh
impossible for him to ('omprehf'ud the powers of spirit. His
intellect has become so dwarfed that he is unable to distinguish
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