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

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the consciousness of those uses in being to which is was
accustomed thru the influence of the higher Intelligence,
whose servant it was.
The soul, therefore, is a creature of the freedom of
will, and a creature of necessity; for the ego of man is
given a choice, and this choice is the liberty to act only
when it is ignorant of the consequences of its acts; but
when it knows, then it becomes a child of necessity, and
must act in the line of its knowledge so as to reap the
benefits, for otherwise it invites annihilation. So long as
the consciousness of the physical man is under the influence
of the lower forces, as well as the psychic emanations,
his consciousness belongs to the realm of animal
creation, and like it perishes at death, or soon after.
The natural man, is given freedom so as to learn the consequences
of his acts, but when a spiritual intelligence
takes possession of the form of flesh, the natural man is
not only displaced, but, dies, and the psychic world is
brought under his control. Thus in reality man's freedom
exists while he is ignorant of the nature of his
being, but when he awakens to the higher self, his will
becomes merged into the Universal Will, and man thru
conjunction with God becomes immortal.
But this immortality has no reference to a disembodied
state,
as is generally believed in the world, for to demonstrate
the higher spiritual uses in being on the material
plane, the intelligence termed the higher self must
possess and have access to a physical form. Again it
must be remembered that the natural physical plane is
the sphere of Wisdom, in which the Holy Spirit manifests
his wonderful and marvelous order, harmony, peace,
in being; and this the Holy Spirit does thru
and use
those mature souls who thru esoteric culture have overcome
the racial phantasms, and their own weakness of
the flesh as well as the vanity of the natural man.