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

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1917
KNOWING con 275
nature of God
and of how to approach him; and more
especially so as, in a former volume of THE ESOTERIC,
God is described as the formless omnipresent Spirit,-a
Spirit separated from and above the mind or spirit of
creation. There is no one subject the harmonization of
which is so important to the mind seeking the highest
attainments, as a clear, well-defined conception of God.
Adeliciency in this direction has brought about much
infidelity, and entire disregard of everything but self.
Even those who are seeking to come into unity with the
Divine Mind and who are_devout in all their life and
habit, must establish a clear conception of God, or their
devotion will-cease. Therefore, as we have disturbed
the fundamental imagination in this relation, it becomes
our duty to give a better foundation, or we are doing
evil instead of good.
In pursuance of the thought presented in the preceding
chapter we would call attention to the following
selection from Genesis (xviii. 20, 21): "And Yahveh said,
Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and
because their sin is grievous, I will go down now, and
see whether they have done altogether according to the
cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will
know." These verses present Yahveh in the light of an
individual, a personality, who, in order to make a thoro
investigation of the doings of his subjects, to make perfectly
sure of the entire situation, is necessitated to come
down and see for himself; and in all the accounts of
God's promises and appearances to Abraham, Abraham
talks with God face to face, as a man talks with his
friend. Read also the account of the destruction of the
tower of Babel (Gen. xi.).
In these chapters and in many others thruout the Bible,
if one cares to follow up the subject, it is seen that
Yahveh appears to men as a man. In short, when a man