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

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out for female companionship. This is the first infiuence
produced by that old "piercing serpent" that we read of
in Eden, and which is brought to light thruout all the
prophecies. (Please read Isaiah xxvii.)
It is indeed a "creeping serpent," and the most deceptive
of all principles that God has made. At first that
companionship is idealized as the angel of pure and holy
love, as the fountain of immortal life. Thus it draws
the neophyte into loving relationship with some one
whom he is enabled to idealize. As soon as that is accomplished,
the next thing he desires more than he did
the companionship is some trifling embrace that would
be right between even brother and sister. When that
desire is granted, the demon has gained sufiicient force
to create added
desire for further liberties; and each
liberty granted adds to the force of the desire.
If the "creeping serpent" is repelled at any of these
points, the fires of that deceptive passion sweep away all
the gomd resolutions of the intellect, and whirl the entire
consciousness into a seething flame of desire, which
places man wholly at the mercy of the same old "piercing
serpent" lurking in the organism upon which he has centered
his love passion. Then he is in a condition where
this old deceiver will picture to his mind the Elysian fields
of heavenly delights and of godlike'purity, all of which are
only the serpent's lie to deceive, drag down the neophyte,
and place him under the law of generation; in fact it is
the law of generation which produces in him that yearning
desire for companionship. The Esoteric student
should remember that he must have no desire but that
which arises in the mind and will of God; in other words,
no desire but to know and do the will of God.
When you dedicated your life to God and commenced
to live for the attainments, you started out to return to
Eden from which your father Adam was driven because