Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1916 THE GOAL 109
power.
So in the body of man, the cells in reality do not
touch each other altho to the sight the form
of man,
like the steel cable, is a solid mass of matter. This unknown
magnetic force seems to be the foundation, or
basis of matter, and as the latter is nota solid substance,
it is clear thst man's existence is purely a consciousness
measured and defined by concepts which may be real, or
entirely false.
Life, therefore, is the natural state of man for
neither matter so called nor the soul's conscious realization
of self can be destroyed, except it may be interrupted
thru ignorance, which causes man to identify
self with the sensual part of his being, and thru it to
be carried down into limitation, or death. In this sphere
man is subject to generation, struggle, sorrow, and all
other miseries which we see upon earth, from whose
state he is destined to emerge into a higher World where
transmutation becomes the law of his being; not bygoing
away from the earth, but by living a proper life,
consisting in the control of that to which before he bowed
his knee.
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If then we take a person and extend the distances of
the voids which separate the cells and functions of his
body and posit them thru space in acircle, we should
practically duplicate the signs of the zodiac as they exist
to-day; and as each sign or function would be the center
of a particular spirit, we should witness the birth of a
greater man, than when we see
the birth of individual
man upon earth, who is yet so obtuse in his mental
development, that while he sees his own unity as man,
yet he fails to see that the race of which he is only a cell
is also one man, a collective unit, whose existence should
be the pursuit of self-culture and control of sensuous passions,
and not self-gratification. To realize those exalted
pursuits and to derive practical results is impossible