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

1917 EPI-IESIANS V. 14 445
the vain metaphysical speculations indulged in by many
who dream of a disembodied heaven, empties himself of
the husks of creation; and filling his mind and form with
the real and the true, reaches life-everlasting in form
and function (service) here on earth in a society of people
functioning as one Man, which is the Lord's second
advent. Please observe that both kingdoms, namely,
the kingdom of man and the kingdom of God are the
products of a passion operating in man, but while the
kingdom of man is based on a devouring fire (love of
possession and pleasure for self) eternally destxoyir g its
dwelling (lsa.xiv. 16-24), the kingdom of God is founded
on everlasting light because the structure is never consumed.
"And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him
in a fiame of fire, out of the midst of a bush [body]: and
he looked, and, behold, the bush [body] burned with fire,
and the bush [body] was not consumed. (Ex. iii. 2.)
Passion is a fire which dies out when the object or aim
of its desire is reached.
But when controlled and turned
upward by means of a trained will, it becomes a steady
never-failing light, illumining every object upon which
the soul seeks any information. In this frame of mind
man's attention is turned toward the study of self, and
the fires of life-the energies evolved in the plasmic structure-are
deflected from the phenomena. and depolarized
from the animal impulse which profanes the house of
God, permitting higher spiritual intelligenees to impress
directly or indirectly the soul with those facts in spiritual
being which belong to each individual who is to enter
into the body of the Lord.
If the soul is ignorant of the higher law of selfrestraint,
and inbreathes the lower animal passion. it
invites into its vital being low and debased spirits, whose
name is legion, causing man to deny the very existence
of God,
becoming as it were the habitation of demons;