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

1918 THE RATIONAL OR THE IRRATIONAL MAN 551
his eyes as a dictinct sphere outside of himself, to which
he once became attached, and bound thru ignorance and
weakness of the flesh.
Desire is because of love, and there exist two kinds of
love.
One is a desire to serve without money and without
price because of the knowing of the truth, and way
of endless life in form and function, in use in gcod; while
the other love is due to the love of self-the particular
self and the desire to possess things for personal use;
therefore love as emotion and feeling is popular and
world-wide. In it the psychic ego is in the presence of its
own particular personality; namely, it realizes self in the
limited physical sense-realm. It gives a feeling of pleasure,
of self-satisfaction, of vanity; it affects the nerves,
and in this self-delusion causes the ego to think it is the
"I," while in reality it is not the "I." Because man's
will
moves a particular organism, the psychic ego is apt to
imagine it is the "I,"
and goes about and, thru the avenues
of sense, perceives, hears, and feels, and says, "This
is me," "l see it," "I feel it," etc, forgetting, or not
realizing, that, that which it sees is different from that
which ls.
What we sense is only a momentary feeling, changing
states of different sense-consciousness, and is incomplete-
and in them we cannot find the perfect Love of
ness,
God, the Universal, the Spirit of Truth. The psychic
ego of man is wrapt in itself, shrouded with the cloak of
egotism, absorbed either in the fieeting joys of limited
sensuous pleasure or suffering thru bitter thought, or
pain. Instead of the light of pure vision, there are restless
imaginings; instead of spiritual joy, the undivided
joy of pure being, there is the self-indulgence of body
and mind. The egotism is perverted spiritual being, the
same as passion is perverted ove, and ambition the inversion
of spiritual power.
The mortal is the limitation