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

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life and practise of the Christ and the teaching of the
Scriptures, he will in addition to his present consciousness
attain a consciousness of and in a higher realm, a
realm where the Holy Ones and the angels of God
This realm the Christ called "heaven."
are.
And the fundamental
physical preparation whereby a consciousness of
that realm is attained is by conserving within the organism
all the reproductive substance.
The conserved reproductive substance is the food upon
which the soul grows. For the the soul grows from the
body. As the soul grows, its senses, corresponding to
the senses of the body, begin to be active. Apparently it
is usually the senses of sight and hearing that awaken
first.
The senses of sight and hearing of the soul are
called clairvoyance and clairaudience.
When the soul's
sense of sight awakens to activity, it
manifests usually, if not always, spasmodically, at un~
expected times. If we observe a little baby or a kitten
in its first attempts to see, we shall perceive that there is
at first simply the ability to see, the eyes stare into the
light without being able to distinguish anything in particular.
There is not the ability to direct the sight and
to see distinctly and definitely save by repeated efforts.
Even then there is little if any understanding of that
which is seen.
its first efforts to see.
These things are true also of the soul in
When the eyes of the soul open it
is usually to see in what is called the "Astral Light," but
it is the world-mind, the Spiritus Mundi.
In this astral
light are all manner of forms, thought creations of men,
souls of the dead, also souls of the living, and demons,
streams of mind force, clouds of malignant qualities, etc.
This is a realm of many subtile dangers to the neophyte,
but these dangers may be avoided by an attitude of sincere
devotion to one's
covenant dedication to God and to
the right, and by persistently refusing to be long occupied