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

1918 THE TWO MINDS
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with anything that does not soon prove to be
true and
useful, and earnestly seeking to follow the teachings of
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the Christ of Nazareth.
When the soul awakens into this realm of danger, if
this attitude of true devotion and adesire for the true
and useful is held and all else disregarded, there will
come a spirit-teacher or teachers (if such have not come
before), whose office it is to lead the neophyte thru this
realm of deception into the realm of spiritual light where
dwell the Holy Ones and the angels of God.
"And tho
the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water
of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a
corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying,
This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right
hand, and when ye turn to the left." (Isa. xxx. 20, 21.)
Unclean spirits may and do come to the neophyte and
offer themselves as teachers and guides for the purpose
of leading him astray, but if careful discrimination is
exercised the false guides will in some manner betray
themselves to be such. Perhaps the one human frailty
which causes the most danger just here is the almost universal
habit of self-deception; and they are few, very
few indeed, who realize the extent of this habit in themselves.
But if the neophyte is faithful, disregarding these
astral visions, even as he has disregarded the things of
material sight, the eyes of the soul will in time discern,
perhaps dimly at first, the light of the Divine Presence,
wherein dwell the angels of God, and he will meet them
face to face; then celestial visitants will become more and
more numerous and their visits more frequent. To enter
into and constantly dwell in this light of the Divine
Presence should be the chief object of the neophyte, and
in fact this becomes his one great satisfaction and safety.