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

1917 THE COMING KINGDOM 453
otherwise the gross would become grosser and the highly
intellectual. finer; but development among our people has
reached a height where intelligence governs them to that
extent that they will not so unequally marry; and every
man and woman whose intelligence has reached a degree
of development where there they are capable of and have
a desire to understand these divine laws and methods
which have characterized THE
ESOTERIC from the beginning,
do by that very fact demonstrate that they are
incapable of giving offspring proper physical bodies.
Therefore we hold that this class of people, by those
undeviating laws of evolutionarydevelopment, have no
right to continue in the law of generation.
Those who have a desire for marrying and raising a
family of children, we believe that desire is prompted by
the soul's consciousness that they are not only capable of
producing good children, but that their work in that
direction is not yet finished. But those whose desiretranscending
all others-is to reach the highest goal of
human attainment, are the ripe fruit of this age. To
them we would say, there are heights and depths and
breadths of knowledge, mind powers and accomplish~
ments possible to you, now, in the world. transcending
your highest imagination. Many of the occult books
and novels tell us of men who have reached such high
attainments that they are able to rule and govern in
whatever sphere of life they are pleased to operate, and
that they are able to command the elements of nature,
heal the sick, cast out devils, and, in fact, do all the
works we read of in Bible days, and furthermore, that
these men set no value on gold and silver, except for its
use for the day, and where they see fit to settle down in
a home of their own they are surrounded by transcendent
luxuries and elegance beyond that of the most wealthy.
Now are these fables? or, are they a few of those things