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

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fearful, and knows this planetary weakness is not of his
making in this life or incarnation at any rate, but the
result either of living in a previous life, or of pre-natal
condition in the present incarnation, it is his privilege
to do battle against this planetary condition, tho it be a
life-long battle. It is his right to do so even tho he acknowledges
that the evolution of his Ego requires that
suffering is necessary, and bitter experience, in order
fully to work out the bad qualities in his nature. Indeed,
if he uses his reason, he will require no urging to banish
the fear that retards his justifiable progress.
If we are at all philosophical, we know that our animal
characteristics must be fought and laid low, but the
longer we are apathetic about them the longer we suffer.
As an illustration of the baneful effects of unwarrantable
credulity, a few lines on the subject just here may
serve. For instance, we may be warned by some person
whom we know is not a real broad-minded thinker,
much less a philosopher, tho spiritual enough, that a certain
house long untenanted we are about to rent, has
disturbing and uncanny noises about it at night. We
are 'uncomfortable perhaps, and allow the warning to
trouble us-if we choose. Another person tells us that
all the people he knows who lived there died there too.
But if we set our will to test, defy and dare to oppose
those iniiuences, it usually happens that we here nothing
but ordinary, every-day sounds, and see nothing to alarm
us during our tenancy-nay, we are quite happy, and
the term has almost expired. Ithink we are all well
aware that if we would make spiritual or even material
attainments, we must not allow fear to dominate us.
"Oh ye of little faith!" This divine rebuke may be applied
to many of us, for it is the want of faith while intending
to do good works-that no injury can come to us
thru the accomplishing thereof, which often thwarts us