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

506 BIBLE nnvmw Dec.-Jan.
rior faculties as a plane or mirror in which man would see
himself, he could not think oract at all. This plane or
base is therefore first formed. "There are also celestial
bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial
is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There
is one glory of the Sun, and another of the moon, and
another glory of the Stars: for one star differeth from
another in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead
[those who are first conscious only of their material
ego]. It is sown in corruption [sexual generation]; it is
raised in incorruption [thru conservation of sexual energy].
It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is
sown in weakness, [or abject submission to an ignoble
sensuous impulse], it is raised in power [to be what one
wills to be] : it is sown a natural body [conscious only of
pain and pleasure]; it is raised a spiritual body [an intelligence
able to control and govern its own structure in
the good and true]. Howbeit that was not first which is
spiritual, but that which was natural; and afterwards that
which is spiritual. The first man is of earth, earthy: the
second man is the Lord from heaven." (I Cor. xv. 40-48.)
Appearances in the spiritual or supersensual state are
real, for they reveal truth; while in the sensual appearances
are not real because the flesh is a mask hiding the
true nature of man from his fellow.
The natural man
being selfish never opens his interior to his fellow man,
for he is a creature of possessions and not of use. Of
himself man is a mere nothing, he is in a constant state
of flux, and knows nothing of any existence, not even of
his own. He only begins to acquire knowledge in being
as he becomes regenerated, or gains control of his vital
energies in righteousness and truth: serving God in the
construction of a heavenly kingdom on earth, which essentially
must first begin in himself before man can be a
torchbearer.