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

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1917 I AM THE RESURRECTION AND
LIFE 403
man having been born into that heavenly State is a possessor
of all good things which belong to God the Creator
of all, but man never can own them.
Ownership is
a deception of the enemy of truth; and even our ideas of
the true and the good are given to man for USE; to apply
them first in himself and then be ready to work for the
realization of a greater ideal; namely, for the organizing
of a body of people functioning as One Man.
Man can only enlarge upon what is already in existence,
for the ideal, the real and the true, was in the mind
of God from the beginning; and whenever man advances,
thru self-culture, and self-control, he only rises in the
scale of evolution from man to God; and as if ascending a
mountain, simply beholds something that is already there
for his USE, that before his ascension he could not see.
All the virtues man acquires are in the nature and being
of God; all the power man developes in conquering
the psychic serpent-impulse in his being is posited in
God; all the riches man sees upon earth, and in earth, as
well as in the sea, are his to use, because they are in the
nature of God for that purpose; but never for possession.
Man, therefore, in the resurrection awakens into another
world, which existed from the beginning, he steps into a
society which had neither father nor mother but abideth
forever a priest after the order of the King of Peace
(Heb. vii. 3), and then he discovers that his conscious
realization of self, his work, his function is never to
terminate.
"Because I live ye shall live also."
aisle!
MAY not all the unhappiness in human life be traced
to self-love and lack of faith in God?-A--.