Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] THE NATUR•: AND FUNCTION OF AQUARIUS. 57
mineral, the animal, man, and it may be in a still higher stage
of evolution; but as yet our knowledge will not carry us further
in the ascending scl\le.• It gives vitality to the very air
which tmrrounds us; and, after a day of enervating and devitalizing
condition of the atmosphere, as it flashes from the
he~vens in all its glory and majesty, we feel that the air is
receiving a l~(e anti vigor which will give us renewed energy.
Something of this thought i11 beginning to dawn on the medic­
:ll world, and we hear of electric baths, electric belts, and variou~
electric contrivances for increasing vitality.
Those living in the rPgene•·ation find, thnt, as the system
becomes potent with life, the electric conditions inm·ease in
the body, manife~ting themselvei\ in various ways: dazzling
electric spa1·ks dart from their eyes, and they learn from experience
that thev must ca•·efully shut off this escape of the life
f01·ces h.v ~~ultivllting an habitual devitnlizatio11 of the eye.
The Bil.le tell>~ us that God is a consuming fire; and it is so of
thi>~ mig-l•ty ant! tenible manifeRtation of his presence, as it is
uf thf' refining fi1•es of his own moat Holy Spirit.
Among tho!!e who are st.1·iving for regene1·ation, the expressiuu
"cunRerving the life" is a very frequent one. \Vhat is
the object of our conRervation '? not the seed but the life,-the
ehwt1·ie for1~e which is eontained in the see1l. The elect1·icity,
the life, which we gather from animal and vegetable sub­
!ltauce ~~on~mued as food-all gootl vegetal'ian R hope that it is
vegetahle-is incorporatetl in the seed, and this, in process of
tranRmntatiun. iR liberated. The electric ~~unent.s thus liberat••tl
play upon the wmulerfnlnetwm·k of nerve filllmentR which
tl'lwerst• eve•·y part nf the bod.". Tht'n is the whole body fill·
P«l with lif ... magnetism, electrieit.v. whieh, in the evolutiona•·y
!W ,}... statui>~ twxt to mintl antl spi1·it, and whieh, in the higher
regen era! inn passes i ntn eaeh nf these, in rPgnlar 01·der. t
• In the Biblt> story. we find a visitation by a hi::-h~r intelligenPe ofto