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

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ly, and have in yourself an absolute knowledge. This
we state would arise from experience, which is the only
source of knowledge that lies higher and beyond. Along
with certain physical practices there is necessary a mental
spirit of investigation and interrogation of all that
you see and know, that it may answer to your consciousness,
why it is and what use it serves in the economy of
the universe.
And as there is in man the spirit of his
Father, the God that created all things, who is spirit,
therefore there is present in every soul that which will
answer these interrogations to its full and complete satisfaction.
Not only so, but this spiritual consciousness
derived from our common Father will make its yearning
aspirations felt thruout one's entire consciousness, as
soon as the individual decides to do right and to live
right under all circumstances. And when one lives from
day to day as near right as one knows, then the spiritual
soul will be freed from the bonds of error, deception,
lust and hate, that have been laid upon it by a perverted
life. It will then make itself known thruout the entire
organism and cause even the intellect to reach out (perhaps
at first with ablind hopeful aspiration) and exclaim,
"Our Father who art in heaven, let me know Thee
that I may love Thee and do Thy will."
This forms perhaps
the first mental suggestion that will transform all
our consciousness by its continuation and elaboration,
into the states that really exist in the heavens. It will
obviate all the dangers from erroneous beliefs arising
from the multifarious suggestions of an evil and perverted
world, or our own perverted bodies.
But some there are who will find it necessary owing to
an unusually gross physical organism, by their own v ill
and reason to begin to practice devotion,
as well as the
methods of regeneration, in order to get those mental
suggestions which will create in them a consciousness of