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day,"[1] He wished to say by this; in the man of the finest organization, the seven
powers of the spirit are still closed, therefore the seven sensuous actions surmount
them daily after their respective fashions.
Thus the best man is exposed to error and passions; the best man is weak and
sinful; the best man is not a free man, and, therefore, exempt from pain and trouble;
the best man is subject to sickness and death, and why? Because all these are the
natural inevitable consequences incidental to the qualities of the corrupt matter of
which he is formed.
Therefore, there could be no hope of higher happiness for humanity so long as
this corruptible and material forms the principal substantial part of his being.
The impossibility of mankind to transport itself, of itself, to true perfection, is a
despairing thought, but, at the same time, one full of consolation, because, in
consequence of this radical impossibility, and because of it, a more exalted and
perfect being than man permitted himself to be clothed in this mortal and
destructible envelope in order to make the mortal immortal, and the destructible
indestructible; and in this object is to be sought the true reason for the Incarnation
of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the actual substantial Word by which all is made,
and which existed from the beginning, Jesus Christ, the Wisdom of God working in
everything, was as the center of Paradise of the world and of light. He was the only
real organism by which alone Divine strength could be communicated, and this
organism is of immortal and pure nature, that indestructible substance which gives
new life and raises all things to happiness and perfection. This pure incorruptible
substance is the pure element in which spiritual man lived.
From this perfect element, which God only can inhabit, and the substance out of
which the first man was formed, from it was the first man separated by the Fall. By
the partaking of the Tree of Good and Evil, of the mixture, the good and
incorruptible principle with the bad and corruptible one, he was self-poisoned, so
that his immortal essence retreated interiorly, and the mortal, pressing forward,
clothed him externally. Thus, then, disappeared immortality, happiness, and life,
and mortality and death were the results of this change.
Many men cannot understand the idea of the Tree of Good and Evil; this tree was,
however, the product of moveable but central matter, but in which destructibility
had somewhat the superiority over the indestructible. The premature use of this
fruit was that which poisoned Adam, robbing him of his immortality and enveloping
him in this material and mortal clay, and thenceforward he fell a prey to the
Elements which originally he governed. This unhappy event was, however, the
reason why Immortal Wisdom, the pure metaphysical element, clothed itself with a
mortal body and voluntarily sacrificed himself; so that the Interior Powers could
penetrate into the center of the destruction, and could then ferment gradually,
changing the mortal to the immortal.
Thus, when it came about quite naturally that immortal man became subject to
mortality through the enjoyment of mortal matter, it also happened quite naturally
that mortal man could only recover his former dignity through the enjoyment of
Immortal Matter.
All passes naturally and simply under God's Reign, but in order to understand
this simplicity it is requisite to have pure ideas of God, of nature, and of man. And if
the sublimest Truths of faith are still, for us, wrapped in impenetrable obscurity, the
reason for this is because we have up to the present dissolved the connection
between God, nature, and man.
Jesus Christ has spoken to His most intimate friends when He was still on this
earth, of the grand mystery of Regeneration, but all that He said was obscure to
them, they could not then receive it; thus the development of these great Truths was
reserved for latter days, for it is the greatest and the last Mystery of Religion, in
which all the others retreat as to a Unity.
Regeneration is no other than a dissolution of, and a release from this impure and
corruptible matter, which enchains our immortal essence, plunging into deathly
sleep its obstructed vital force.
Therefore, there must necessarily be a real method to eradicate this poisonous
ferment which breeds so much suffering for us, and thereby to liberate the
obstructed vitality.
There is, however, no other means to find this excepting by religion, for religion
looked at scientifically being the doctrine which proclaims the re-union with God, it
must of necessity show us how to arrive at this re-union.
Is not Jesus the life giving Intelligence? He gives us the principal object of the
Bible and of all the desires, hopes, and efforts of the Christians. Have we not
received from our Lord and Master while still He walked with His disciples, the
profoundest solutions of the most hidden truths? Did not our Lord and Master
when He was with them in His glorified Body after His resurrection give them the
highest revelation with regard to His Person, and did He not lead them still more
deeply into central knowledge of truth?
Will He not realize that which He said in His Sacerdotal prayer, St. John xvii., 22,
23: "And the glory which thou hast given to me I have given unto them, that they
may be one, even as We are one: I in them, and they in Me, that they may be
perfected into one."
As the disciples of the Lord could not comprehend this great mystery of the new
and last alliance, Jesus Christ transmitted it to the latter days, of the future now
arriving, when He said, "And the glory which Thou hast given Me, I have given unto
them, that they may be one even as We are One," St. John xvii. 22. This alliance is
called the Union of Peace. It is then that the law of God will be engraven in the heart
of our hearts; we shall all know the Lord; and we shall be
His people, and He will be our God.
All is already prepared for this actual possession of God, this union with God
really possible here below; and the holy element, the efficacious medicine for
humanity, is revealed by God's Spirit. The table of the Lord is ready and everyone is
invited; the "true bread of Angels" is prepared.
The holiness and the greatness of the Mystery which contains within itself every
mystery here obliges us to be silent, and we are not permitted to speak more than
concerning its effects.
The corruptible and destructible is destroyed, and replaced by the incorruptible
and by the indestructible. The inner sensorium opens and links us on to the spiritual
world. We are enlightened by wisdom, led by truth, and nourished with the torch of
love. Unimagined strength develops in us wherewith to vanquish the world, the
flesh and the devil. Our whole being is renewed and made suitable for the actual
dwelling-place of the Spirit of God. Command over nature, intercourse with the
upper worlds, and the delight of visible intercourse with the Lord are granted also!
The hoodwink of ignorance falls from our eyes, the bonds of sensuality break, and
we rejoice in the liberty of God's children.
We have told you the chiefest and most important fact, if your heart having the
thirst for truth has laid hold on the pure ideas that you have gathered from all this,
and have received in its entirety the grandeur and the blessedness of the thing itself
as object of desire, we will tell you further.
May the Glory of the Lord and the renewing of your whole being be meanwhile
the highest of your hopes!
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