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

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JP!"-f"f'B HE old Jewish tabernacle, we are told, was
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another, while the children
of Israel were
wandering in the wilderness.
This would indicate that it was only intended as a temporary
place for God's name, and that its real place was
to be the inner sanctuary of man's soul nature.
As the Israelitish nation in those days had but little
knowledge of Divine law, they had to gain this knowledge
through external means first, and then work inward towards
their soul-consciousness. This sanctuary was made
after the pattern of the heavens, in that it contained the
perfect law of God, written upon tablets of stone. When
the children of Israel were brought out of Egypt, they
were in such a state of spiritual darkness that they were
a very unhappy people, until Divine mercy delivered them
from cruelty and misery.
As they were never able to obey his commandments
and to live up to the requirements of a holy life, there
had to be, as it were, a veil over the inner mysteries of
the soul, so that the real
divine sunlight did not have
free access. When Christ came, he made the perfect law
of God plain to a few who were able and willing to understand
it. The old ceremonial law given by Moses was
only an external method of the Divine Mind to keep the
divine spark alive within their soul. If this method had