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

6 BIBLE REVIEW Oct.
tions of the fiesh and its promptings.
In the world of generation men's bodies are the habitation
ofa great many entities whose
intelligence is
purely selfish, not being able to think beyond the narrow
radius of their own diminutive structure; therefore they
seek to possess and own that which eternally eludes their
grasp, and to enjoy sensuous pleasure which terminates
in death. To gratify sensuous promptings is to diminish
the vital energies of the structure,
conscious realization of one's
and to reduce the
own being to the narrow
radius of its organic structure, because of suffering
thru lack of vital life.
Now, in a world where men have overcome the sensuous
delusions of their being, no member cares to burden
himself with something perishable, or to have the idea
of ownership interfere with the freedom of his mind.
The central idea of this great State is that God is the
center and pivot of all that is. Being Unknown, and
not defined He can be compared to that part of the Universal
Wheel which is the void posited in the center of
the hub; the latter is the Word from which proceed, and
in which are posited, the twelve functions of the heavenly
man, which are the spokes of the wheel. Now, each
member of the true and rational State isa part of one
of those twelve spiritual emanations, likened to spokes;
being tempered, modified, deprest, obscured, or elevated
by other iniiuences, which are mind-currents frcm organized
centers. These influences thus effect man's bodily
structure, because plasmic matter is not only subject to
the elements, but is also subservient to waves of thought
that carry ideas seeking a place to grow and to express
their spirit. Their desire is to live and to have access to
sexual plasma, and by those means to exist and to realize
self in conscious being.
The very idea, "MAN," unless
it enters into being thru the gate of generation, can
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