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

1917 KNOWING con 273
system.
The mission of Christ to earth was to plant the seed
that shall bring forth the mature fruit of the xlanet.
ln order that this work be ultimated, there must be one,
who, under the guiding intelligence of Yahveh, the God
of' the Universe, thru his manifestation as the God of the
solar system, will gather and organize a structure of
bodies and souls of men and women who are to be direct
-recipients of the mind and spirit currents of the God of
our system, by which means they are to become, in the
language of prophecy, "kings and priests unto God"_and
"shall reign on the earth." This body was revealed to
John in the Revelation as a hundred and forty and four
thousand.
pure ones.
These, said the angel to John, are virgins,
Out of all the millions of earth's inhabitants
the first ripe fruit are to be set apart, sanctified to God,
yea, sanctified as God, and will rule over all the earth.
This thought in its varied forms has frequently appeared
in the columns of THE ESOTERIC, so that the Esoterist
need not misunderstand the idea herein conveyed.
Those who are to become members of this body, must
be unencumbered by any of the former conditions of
earth, -by generation, labor, sorrow, and death. They
must, as it were, pull themselves out
of the body of
humanity. In doing this all former loves, sympathies,
desires, and habits must not only be relinquished, but
the very elements of those conditions must be eradicated
from the physical structure.
In the everlasting covenant
we find the injunction, "Thou shalt have no other
Gad's
before me;" in other words, you must trust in God
alone; you must have no other power upon which you are
dependent; your life must be given without reserve to
fitting the body and preparing the mind for your high
calling as a king and priest unto God. And as God said
to Moses, "I have made thee a god to Pharaoh," and