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

1918 SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS 569
of transgression. If you conquer the scortatory passion
within yourself and gain the right to enter tne sacred
precincts of that Edenic state, you will find yourself
there; and when you have vanquished that old serpent,
so that he has no longer any place within, then the Lord
God will say of you as of Adam, _"I
not good for man to be alone."
perce ve that it is
Therefore this holy relation
will not arise from any desire within the man, but
from the law of use born from the mind of the Iniinite.
We wish to say to thestudent, from the standpoint of absolute
knowledge, that it is an impossibility for that Edenic
state to exist. for that counterpartal relation to obtain,
for any man to find or recogize his counterpart, whilst the
present conditions of the world exist. Not until there has
been a gathering together of a body of people, who, thru
long and persistent effort, have prurified their lives and
unified their consciousness with the consciousness of
God, and who, thru and by the power of his Spirit, have
again organized the Eden of God, the Temple divine, can
that counterpart relationship be guarded and protected
from all invasion from the world of sense.
Therefore it becomes necessary that Esoteric students
should comprehend in their covenant with God a
covenant
with their own souls, that they will never bend in the
slightest degree to that old sense desire, no matter how
holy, how pure, how grand it may appear. Woman's
nature is confiding love, that of man is knowledge, understanding,
and strength, and so God has made woman
to trust and confide in man; and, because of this, he who
would be a man in this higher and nobler sense
should
never allow any woman to enter the sacred precincts of
his love life, but should be able, no matter how much
love or passion she may pour upon him, to so guide and
control her mind as to prevent all undue love conditions,
and to aid her to restrain all her passion nature; for the