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

1917 TRUTH 255
world, whether physical, mental, or spiritual, is for the
sake, service, and advantage of the unit. Every invention,
every convenience and every knowledge gathered
in the State by any one is for the use, and benefit of
all. Being intelligent and cultured people, no one abuses
any privilege afforded by the State, yet, no one in that
canrnunity is an ascetic, going about wearing sackcloth,
with his head covered with ashes; on the contrary all
are joyful, active, energetic individuals, full of that life
which makes existence a pleasure and a joy forever.
"Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
Srst fruits of them that slept. For since by man came
death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
Far as in Adam [thru generation] all die,' so also in Christ
[thru regeneration] shall all be made alive." (1 Cor. xv.
20-22.)
Speaking from a biological point of view, the State
called the kingdom of God, which on earth is a society of
people functioning as one man, exists on the transmutative
plane of being, signifying that the energies of life
centered in the apex of creation, man, are transmuted
thru the fires of life into an ever-lasting consciousness
of one's
own individual identity, because of service in a
special use to a greater body than oneself.
Man is a creator. He inspires either from a higher or
a lower source and expressing his ideals radiates his ignorance
or his wisdom into his surroundings upon the
people he meets; and builds his own state and condition
upon earth. Individually and collectively, he radiates an
efliuvia cognizable by a sensitive when passing thru the
radius of his activity. ln the world of fermentation
where man's sexual activity is turned into pleasure,
where men compete with each other worse than beasts
for the possession of wealth which perishes as soon as
acquired, where every one struggles to maintain his own