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

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which have past so far beyond the material substance
knowable to the human consciousness that we have no
idea of their existence. Pope uttered a wonderful truth,
transcending his own highest ideals, when he said:
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is and God the soul."
all that is in the universe, all that has entered
upon existence or that is to be, is his body, and he, God,
is the immortal soul. But the soul of the Iniinite, that
is, the consciousness of the worlds that stand among the
millions of generations of suns beyond our own, is cntirely
unknowable to the highest angel that is capable of
making himself known to us. Then, who and where is
the God that we worship? who and where is the God_ that
we are to know, thru which knowing we expect to obtain
an immortal and unceasing consciousness of existence?
Jesus intimated something of the order of the manifestation
of God to the different spheres of existence in
the parable of the ten pounds (Luke xix. 12-28). In
their time and stage of unfoldment, the people to whom
he spoke could not comprehend more of the order of the
universe, but it is for this our age to receive a higher
revelation, which is this: The mature souls belonging
to our solar system, who have gained immortality by
carrying the physical base beyond the material spheres,
form abody in the heavens, "many members, yet but
one body," "members one of another." The members
of this body, having received the dominion, have entire
control of everything in the solar system. They
have been gathered and organized by an Intelligence
from that system of which our solar system was born.
This body is the God of the solar system, receiving inspiration,
knowledge, wisdom, and power from a like
body of Intelligences, Spirits, organized in the system
from which ours originated.
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