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

1916 THE GOAL 113
one by one, that men here and there awaken thru trials
of the most unusual kind into the kingdom of God, and
finally are born into, or led to unite with, a body, or
community of people, functioning as one man, and to
develop a civilization entirely at variance with the sy stem
existing in the kingdom of man.
This then is the problem which should engage the attention
of the student of esoteric culture, namely, a communal
life.
That which divides the people of God from
the children of men is their belief in the uses of the energies
of life, and the view they take upon the perishable
things of earth; but as the esoteric student while in the
midst of the sensuous elements, only advances to a certain
degree, until he begins to lose all connections with the
outer world, he must sooner or later, if he wishes to go
on to perfection, seek affiliation with those who are ready
to-day to demonstrate a method of every-day existence,
which inevitably leads, to immortality in form'and function.
Freedom and continuity in being can he only found
where the desire to possess ceases to rule man. and instead
he realizes that USE governs the world of spiritual being,
spiritual existence, which is not a disembodied state but
essentially a unity of Spirit and flesh, in which the later
is perfectly obedient to virtue, truth, and righteousness;
qualities possessed by those only who are entirely free
from the attachments to sensual pleasure and ownership
of that which perishes in space and time.
"Beloved believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God; because many false prophets
have gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit
of God: Every spirit that confessed that Jesus Christ is
come in the fiesh is of God. "