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

112 BIBLE REVIEW Dec.
seeking a higher and perpetual use in being. The descending
currents induce the soul to ally self to the impulses
of the flesh, and thereby destroy the form, causing
it to return to its source; while the physical experiences
thru which the soul gained a knowledge of
terrestial affairs, become the link of its progre s in a
future incarnation; but if the soul is an advanced intelligence,
and gains control of natures forces ensphered in
its organic structure, it will never lose the conscious ccntinuity
of its own being, but it will know self, its viork,
its place and function or use in being in a greater body
than its own, which is to be its perpetual home. Such
souls are those who recognize while in the flesh their ancient
relation to the
this fact says:
Word of God, which speaking of
"But when the Comforter is ccme, whom
Iwill send unto You from the Father, even the Spirit
of TRUTH, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall
TESTIFY of me. And ye also shall bear WITNESS, because
have been with ME from the BEGINNING. "(John. xv.
ye
26, 27.)
Please observe: The growth of the planetary man, or
specie, is governed by cycles, and life is an eternal flowing
out and returning. In the former we deal with phenomena
in the later _with psychic reflections and spiritual
arcana. Man started in a mental world, descended to
the realm of desire, surrendered to a psychic whirl, and
fell head-long into the elements. From them he ascends
in civilzation and culture to even
thru ages of progress
greater understanding of his relation to the unseen and
true uses in being; but this advance is not universal, nor
ever was there a period that true spiritual culture was
attained by large groups of people at one and the same
time. True culture can be gained only thru individual
efforts according to a science which deals with laws contray
to the laws governing phenomena; consequently it is