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

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in the Bible as "the carnal mind," "the natural rrlan,"
"the mind of the flesh," etc. And this is all the consciousness
that the natural man has.
But as
man has been developing, here and there one
has perceived that there is something more that one may
have than a consciousness arising wholly from the
five
senses, this consciousness is wholly of this material
realm. And the most mature ones, feeling the smallness
of a life wholly of the senses and a desire for something
better, have asked themselves "Is this all of life?" "Is
there not something better, grander, nobler than a life
whose consciousness is limited by the five senses?"
The Lord Christ came in response to this need of the
race for a larger life, which need has been perceived by
the few mature ones. He came to teach men how, and
to make it possible that they might attain to a larger,
higher, grander state of consciousness than is possible to
one whose consciousness is wholly that of the five senses.
Because the teachings of the Christ showing men
how
they may attain to that higher state of consciousness
have been garbled, mistranslated, misinterpreted, rendered
unintelligible, and even perverted by teachers who
had more zeal to teach than knowledge to give, it became
necessary that those teachings be
unearthed and
separated from the great mass of religious and superstitious
rubbish in which theyhave been buried by the ignorant
teachers, and placed before the people in clear,
plain language, so that all mature minds may be able to
perceive and understand them. For this reason the
knowledge of the regeneration has been again given to
the world thru the Esoteric movement. And this knowledge
of the regeneration, which was brought to the
world by the Christ, is yet again given, to the end that
those mature ones
may be enabled to add to their state
of consciousness, limited by the scope of the tive physical