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

390 BIBLE REVIEW Aug. -Sep.
Lot to escape, one of them said, "I cannot do any thing
till thou be come hither, [that is, to Zoar]." Also in the
case of the prophet Elijah who declared to the king, "As
the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand.
there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according
to my word."
It seems that the true rendering of the statement "I
will give him a white stone," has been given by those
who have translated it, "I will give him `a white votingpebble;"
and the grounds for this thought is found in
the result of the overcomings of the Neophyte as he attains
in the regeneration step by step towards God-likeness
and that dominion over all nature, which has been
determined as his destiny.
As man advances in the regeneration, he finds that the
conserved reproductive substance entering into his nervous
system, not only awakens him to keener sensibilities
in all directions, and also awakens the faculties of the
soul to a consciousness of that spiritual realm where the
angels of God
dwell, but the capacity of the mind to know and to grasp
and to understand truths heretofore impossible for him
and the spirits of just men made perfect
to understand, is also gained.
There is much said and written these days about "the
At-one-ment with God," "Spiritual consciousness," "Cosmic
consciousness, " etc.; it is not for us to say how much
or how little understanding is had of these expressions
by those who use them; but it is a truth that the one who
follows on in the regeneration begins in time to perceive
that his center of consciousness is not 'a fixture in the
physical organism, but that as a mind-center in the spirit
realm, or asa center in the Infinite Mind, he can be
where he wills to be, and there, by the power of his
mind and will, direct the spiritual forces to do the work
he desires to be done; thus God "performeth the counsel