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

9116 A CALL 'ro BIRTH 53
leaves of the tree, [the knowledge gained thru experience
by the regenerate people] were for the healing of the nations."
(Gen. ii. 9; Rev. xxii. 1,2.)
The destiny of man is to be a king or ruler over self,
and a priest unto God. The individual seeking to know
self must grasp the idea of the correspondence existing
between the microcosm and the macrocosm, and attain the
spiritual perception that man, the little world, is asynthesis
of the great universe. He must know that man is
man,because as a soul he functions as a man; so does society;
so does the race; so do the systems of worlds,
and so does the universe. To function as a man is to govem
the animal body that man receives from the
serpent, and to use its many functions in the good and
the true, and not to be subservient to the impulses of the
lower or sexual passion that is seeking to repeat the
transgression, and thus continues death and unconsciousness
in the race.
God made man in his own image (Gen. v. 3 ), and the
candidate for initiation is told that all the gods, even the
greater ones, were but men who arose to power, because
singly and collectively they control the energies of their
own being and function as a man.
In studying the question of good and evil in the career
of man, who is a little world within himself, to whom the
laws of nature apply the same as they do to the great
universe, of which he is a part, we find that evil, namely,
ignorance, incapacity, and its consequences, suffering,
want, disease, war, and death, reigns, and will reign as
long as man subjects his body to the rule of the generative
impulse arising in the sex, which is the fountain of
life.
From this point of view, the life of man on the
generative plane is a transitory phase of his being, serving
the use of divorcing him from the rule of a deceptive
spirit and of leading him to the realization that the con-