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

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thru the gate of regeneration into the body possessing
eternal life, which has neither beginning, for it always
existed, nor has it any termination, for death and unconsciousness
have no power over and in spiritual being.
The esoteric movement in contradistinction to any existing
religious cult, ism, or new thought, so called, is
patterned after the living temple showed to the man of
God, Moses, on the mount, and based on the doctrine of
the Lord, which he imparted to his disciples, chiefly to
St. John, whose Apocalypse when properly interpreted
brings to light the aim and purpose of man's existence
upon earth; coinciding fully with the declared purpose of
the Creator as stated in Gen. i. 26. From this point of
view the Spirit of Christ requires that the esoteric people
should conceive of the spiritual as penetrating, vivifying
and controlling the natural, physical existence of
man. God as Spirit pervades and interpenetrates the
Universe, and man's soul when at one with God, penetrates
and transforms the body from its animal, selfish
tendencies to spiritual and altruistic uses in being.
Please observe: If man thru the agency of his passions,
all turned to the gratification of his particular self,
which is sexual lust and love of mammon, was able to
establish the world's
social structure, possessing manifold
civilized features,
comforts of life, as well as the
arts and scientific institutions, how much more can those
who have overcome unto death the influence of their
sensuous passions, create a perfect, orderly and cultured
state upon earth; in which there will not be any sorrow,
crying, want, disease, nor death. All the accumulated
knowledges of the past ages in the domain of sciences,
arts, mechanics, agriculture, literature, sociology, and
economics, together with the spiritual arcana, possest by
the people of God, will be turned into the creation of a
perfect COMMUNAL STATE, where there is no private