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

1916 AFTER THE PATTERN 71
that, in order that they may retain the sensual pleasures
of this world, and enjoy the senses.
"Practical Methods to insure Success," by H. E. Butler,
challenges any man. no matter who he is, who is subject
to the laws of procreation, to stand forth and reveal the
hidden secrets of his impure mind.
Oh, what sepulchers
would open before us! So beautiful outwardly, and so
Christianlike, and yet inwardly they are full of the
bones of the dead, and of all impurity. Jesus makes it
clear that these worship their own body in preference to
God, and use his teachings to cover the man of sin.
Thus they pollute the body, which should be the temple
of the Divine Mind; and then they increase this pollution
by self-deception.
Let us rise in the grandeur of our real manhood, and
conquer this deamon in us that we call the lower passion,
and allow the body to become the sanctuary of God. For
it isin this Holy sanctuary that he says "I will meet you,
to speak there unto thee. And this tabernacle shall be
sanctified by my glory. And they shall know that I
am [the"I will be what I will to be"] YAHVEH their God.
that brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt [the
lower sensual, worldly condition of mind] that I may
dwell among them: I am YAHVEH their God."(Ex.xxix.
42-46.)
God is mind, and to be made after the pattern of the
heavens, is to become like that Mind-clean and pure in
thought and action.
Many of these so-called, twentieth-century Christians,
wonder what would happen to the world if they should
stop reproducing their kind. They think that human life
would come to an end. They forget that Jesus said all
men could not receive his saying, thereby signifying that
procreation would take care of itself, just the same as it
did when Jesus overcame the passions. He made it clear