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

1917-18 THE FOUNDATION STONE 499
words; Z'Be fruitful and multiply." But even as it is
stated that, "The Lord sent a [additional] word into
Jacob," so there was an additional word sent into man;
therefore the seed of man embodies not only one word of
the Creator as does the horse or the oak tree, but it embodies
two distinct words, or ideas, so that man has in
himself the capacity to become either one of two things
in accordance with these two words. The second word
that was sent into man which differed from that sent into
all other life was exprest in the words: "And God said:
Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and
let them have dominion over
.... all
the earth."
So we perceive that the reproductive substance of man
embodies two distinct ideas, and it is left for the man to
choose which of these two ideas shall be manifested in
him. The first word is, "man reproducing his kind,"
this we have seen manifested times without number; the
second word is, "Godlike man dominating all nature,"
this we have seen in but one instance, the Lord Jesus.
Regarding this second word John the Evangelist wrote,
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was a power ..... As
many
as recieved him [or it, the Word], to them gave he power
to become sons of God.....
The
Word was
made flesh, and dwelt among us." This word of the
Creator that was made fiesh and dwelt among them was
Jesus. That is, in Jesus was manifested that second
word, '"Godlike man dominating all nature." And since
all nature obeyed the word of God, so all nature obeyed
the word of the Jesus that was like God. He was like
God, and for this reason he called himself a son of God.
And one becomes a son of God thru conserving in his organism
that which has in it the power to make him like
and to give him the power to dominate all nature
God
by his word.