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

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1918 THE RIATIONAL OR THE IRRATIONAL MAN 553
ally Light, physically demonstrated by intense vibrations,
and spiritually realized thru knowledge and wisdom;
while animal light being turned within for self, for
pleasure, and for possession, is essentially darkness.
Both possess degrees, while its source, the Infinite, the
Universal, the Spirit, simply IS.
It is unscrutable to linite
mind, by virtue of man's
and self-assertion.
psychic desires, illusions,
It is written, "the thick darkness where God dwells,"
and again, "No man can see God and live." The former
statement is self-evident, for as no man on the physical
plane can step back of his own form, no more can his
mind at any stage of his ascent step back of the original
cause, and yet to see God is not an impossibility. (John
xiv. 6-9.); but when one does see Him he dies to the animal
love; for when one sees God the Definite he steps
back of the creative or generative law, and sees it, even
as He sees it, in its USE. The Definite, therefore, or God
is an Intelligence, acting rationally and regularly-it is
a will acting by law; consequently the signs of the most
useful individuality are not to be sought in the manifestation
of a strong will merely, which may be developed
thru freedom of man's thinking and acting, but in the
manifestation of a will guided by the necessity of God.
Now when we contemplate the idea of personality,
pure and simple more carefully, we shall see that it consists
of mere will applied to events of limited radius of
consciousness by persons whose ideas are without principle;
governed by no plan or rule, with respect to whose
action we can form no calculation; for, by virtue of igno~
rance and limitation, none can tell what whim may take
hold of them, what fallacy may mislead them, or into
what vagary their inconsistent psychic life may fall.
But as man rises in the scale of individuality, enlightened
by spiritual truth, and acquires control over his