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

1916 THE LAW or CORRESPONDENCE 63
again." (Luke vi. 38.)
This law seems so simple that even a child can understand
it, and yet men still grapple hard with it, for when
one attempts to put it into action, like many of the other
laws that the Christ proclaimed, it takes often many reincarnations
for one to be able to say,
"I am the master
of that law on three planes, I can set that law in motion
and reap the desired results whenever it is necessary."
We shall see-first how this law works on the physical
plane, where its workings are easily seen.
Let us first look at the soil which gives freely to support
all life on this earth. Does it vibrate that law set in
motion when the earth was created, "Give and it shall be
given unto you"? Look at that fertile field! The man that
owns it has planted it to grain, and it has yielded him an
hundred fold; he is well pleased, for who could ask more,
and he sees in his imagination rich harvests for many
years to come; so he plants the same grain year after year,
but to his surprise each year the harvest grows less until
finally the soil ceases to bear. What is the matter with
that once fertile soil? Nothing, the man only broke that
simple law, "Freely ye have received freely give. " He received
freely from the soil, but he did not give freely of
fertilization, he made no effort to replace in some other
form what he had taken from the soil, until finally the
grain had taken all, and the soil had no more to give.
We shall now observe the working of this law on the
animal plane. Look at that cow quietly grazing in the
field, she is a choice animal, a very picture of beauty,
and her milk is of the richest quality, and she gives
freely of her best life-qualities to help to support man;
but her owner does not give so willingly of food whereby
she may produce this rich food for him; but the faithful
animal does not cease to draw from her life~forces to
give, until finally she has no more life to draw from. The