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

A
444 BIBLE REVIEW Oct.-Nov.
to-morrow we may die. The world is simply a tissue of
plasmic cells, played upon by the astral or psychic elements,
being the descendent of that self-will that must
be abandoned by the son of man ere he can be resurrected
from the dead. Before this self-will descended upon
earth, this planet was the undisturbed dwelling-place of
innocent pastoral people whose existence was governed
by times and seasons; and the days of their earthly life
extended into centuries, some living thru eight and ninehundred
years. (Gen. v.) But with the passage of the
Solar System into a different strata of the Universal Man,
ruled by the star Draconis, or the serpent of the deep.
man on earth being inexperienced es ayed, as the Greek
poet states, to drive his father's horses across the Zodiac,
and losing control of them fell into the waters of generation
of his own will and choosing.
Self-will once manifested separates itself from the
_orderly, harmonious, and peaceful rule of the parent
organization; and descending into lust and generation
because of individual desire and will, ceases to remember
the laws of heaven, becoming a law unto itself, constructing
upon earth a social structure based on the love
of self, and the ever-shifting sands of generation, called
the kingdom of man; wherein men worship the gods and
idols of their own creation, bow down before mammon,
oppress the weak, deceive each other, war incessantly,
and descending into the bottomless pit vanish frcm view.
However, upon consideration it is clear that the sphere
of fermentation, as a theater of action where man de~
velops
individuality and specialization, serves, thru its
evanescent aims and empty results, the very purpose of
divorcing mature souls from the bondage imposed upon
them by the illusions of the senses, and utilizes them on
a higher plane in being. Thus the esoteric student in
abandoning the vanities of a phenomenal existence, and