Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

560 THE STATUTF.S OF LIFE. [.June
against God's will as expreMed in his law!!, we are eDtering
his rest; and then life merges into a perpetual joy, as, by ('()ming
into harmony with God's law~'~, we come into harmony with
his own life.
Doubtless it wu a perception of this truth that cau~~ed the
prophet to write: "For since the beginning of the world men
have not heard, nor perceived hy the ear. neither hath tbe eye
seen, 0 God, beside thee, what he hath prepared fur him that
waiteth for him. Thou meekst him that rejoiceth and workt:"th
righteousnesR: those that remember tlu:!e in thy WaJs: beholtl,
thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those ( wa~"· or lawR)
is continuance, and we Rhall he savt'd. ·• IRa. LXIV. 4. 5. It
is, therefore, only hy le~trning. a01l living in harmony with
God's laws, which are the expre88ion of hi:-~ will. that we can
be saved from the sufferings and mist>tiPs of life. .Th~ Creative
Mind made n~ mistake in makiug man. 1111d men f'tr
when they say that ••life is not worth living.'' malesR tlwy rl:!fer
to a life of rebellion against the lawR of life.
It is because of this rehellion (thrnugh ignorance) a~ainl4t
..
the
laws of life, that they have so little life; and it is thiR cnulitittn
which makes them feel that it i11not worth Jiving. Wht>n .T.. Rn•.
our l~ etfcll"t!l were directed towaml teadling
men the laws of true livin:,:-.
'Vhen we have learnetl and when we li"e in harmony with
'thoee laws he came to tf>ach, aliCI cnmlerning which Mose!l and
the prophets wrote,-and we can learn them only by meditating
upon them continually,- then shall •• the tabernacle of Uod he
with nwn, and he will dwell with them, and they shall he his
people, and God himself shall he with them, and be their God.
And GO(l shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there
llhall be no more