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

1917 HELIOPOLIS
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all the affairs of its being; but when the sensuous and
irrational part of man's nature, proceeding from the
lower sexual instinct, gains the control over the bcdy, it
causes the latter to descend to the level of the brute,
not only in its sleeping state but also in its waking hours;
and living the life of the beast, destroys the whole
structure.
Now the individual who is attracted to the religion of
truth which teaches self-control in thought, desire, and
vital being will find that his nativity to a
greater or
currents of
lesser extent is overshadowed by those higher
the Solar Man, who also thinks, breathes, and lives in
different currents of his own being,
which possess high
and low emanations, and of which Solar Biology gives
a description. From this point of view the esoteric
movement depenis upon the awakening of those who
are the spiritual children of the Lord of Life-those
who have outgrown the animal clothing, and discarded
all selfish considerations, and view life as an endless
growth in constructive, vital being, leading to an orderly,
harmonious, and highly cultured existence in
all branches of human existence on earth, which is to
overspread thru their instrumentality the whole species.
As a practical student of man's triune nature, the
not
seeker after immortality in form and function can
divest self frorn the physical structure expecting to find
in the unseen a realization of his desires, but must work
while in the flesh for the demonstration of his ideals,
which is an association of people functioning as one man
whose soul is God.
Now note the distinction: in the
lover world where limitation rules the life of man, he
passes thruacareer; namely, birth, maturity, decline
and death; for thru the gate of generation, he is ushered
into a body of people whose life is death, not so, however,
if the soul, while in the flesh succeeds in entering