Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

Tu~: ~Attuow \VAY.
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!>houltl til·st fix an ultimate toward which to lahor. When
that i~ don~>, tllt'n every 1wt of hi:~ life shuuld be (leterminetl by
the use whida will lwlp to ultimate the desires of his !>onl.
Thil> law of use should be cuntinnall.v before him. He should
t~unfur111 e,·e•·y act of his daily life to it, so that each one will
be a st~pping-stone toward the goal which be has placed before
him ; and let nothing turn him from his p·:rpose. Friends and
loved ones may fursake him ; he must be patient, and in faith
p•·ess onward, knowing that God our Father is con11tantly with
him, to give him strength and to show him the way through
the darkest hnur of trial.
The highest ultimate that man can set before him, is to
~~ume into perfe,~t oueness with the Creator. That ultiwaw
i~ well nig-h he~· o111l our comJ~rebension; but when we realize
that GoJ has Jll'fllllisecl to be our power and our strength, it is
not 110 far removed fJ-nm u11 as we at first imagine. Uod creatf>1l
1nan in hi,; imag-t>, and he would now manifest the power anti
glory of his Creator, did he not continually deny, and refus~
to use the spi1·itual powers with which his divine Parent ha~
endowed him.
The belief in a heavt•n that is to be readted through th~
gateway of the grave. does much t.oward tlwarfing man's spil"itnal
nature, the1·eby •·uhbing him of his lawful inheritancl>'.
There is only one entr:wce to heaven ; that is, if heaven is th~
state or I:)Onditiou in whi··h man eomes into conscious rt»laitlon
with Gut!. That ~ntJ'Hiwe lies at the far end of the Narrow
\Va_v.-the way whid1 must be traveled while the outer
garment.!! of tlesh are retained. The Narrow \Vay is often
da1·k and dismal, and apparently full of dangers. The dangeMI
a1·t> only appa1·ent. howevea· ; for as the pilgrim found the lion
bf'.~ide the path, so will the neophyte, if he i11 truly trusting the
guidancf'. God, in his gTeat love, permits man, as he struggle!>.
upward. to f1·eqmmtl.v tastt' of the joys which a.re in store for
him afte1· the g-oal ha!! heen reached. How bountiful is God
iu the bestowal of his gifts! Who among the sons and
danghte•·s of nwn can comp•·ehencl his unchanging love? Not
until man has overcome the evils incident to earth life, and
has purified hi~ mirul by right thought and holy desire, can he
enter that state of at.one.ment with God, which is, iu truth,
the union of God the Fathe•· with man the son.
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