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

254 BIBLE REVIEW Mar.
to a time after the dissolution of his body; and consequently
while in the iiesh, he seeks the acquisition of
wealth which he acquires by foul means; altho these
means may be sanctioned by thelaws and customs of ages,
he flatters his vanity and surrenders his body to sensuous
pleasures. That is the life of all peoples, of all ages,
and climes, whoever have lived and still live under the
law of generation; while the soul born from above, has
taken possession of the organic structure of man, abhors
ownership of wealth in any shape or form whatever,
knowing full well that the earth with the fulness thereof,
being God's creation and communal property to be used
for the benefit of all, is the inheritance of the collective
unit, the race.
men
Individual property can exist only where
are ignorant and selfish, which, as love of self, is
the direct offspring of sexual lust.
In a heavenly State
men strive for social, national, and universal order, harmony
and peace. Such attributes do not exist, nor can
be established where individualism reigns supreme.
The spiritual man is a member of an altruistic society,
for well he knows that the body in which he dwells is a
federation of twelve functions (tribes) each composed of
living individual cells (members of a tribe). Each is
governed by the soul in an orderly fashion, never permitting
the spirit of disobedience to enter in its world cf
thought, desire, or vital being. Knowing then that its
body is a reflection of a heavenly state, the spiritual man
in organizing a State formed out of regenerate people,
creates a larger body than its own, merging its individual
being intoa greater unit, the social or national
man, which as one Individual is governed by a higher
and spiritual law; namely, true self-government, wherein
truth is enthroned; and only then can those so
united do the greater works that the Lord promised his
fo'Iowers would do. (John xiv. 12.) Every workin that