Six Theosophic Points, and Other Writings
52. A prisoner is comforted only by his release, until he place his will in hope, and compose himself with patience; and so at last his restlessness falls into hope, into the temperament, and he learns in such hope to become humble. Then, if one tells him of his release, he rejoices.
53. Therefore, ye physicians, observe it, that is your pearl, if you can understand this, the meaning is internal and external.
CHAPTER IV
Of the In and Out. How the eternal will of God carries itself outicards and into perceptihility, inwards and again into the One.
Here may he understood to what end the being of this world was created, and zehat purpose the creaturely ground serves. Further, to what end joy and sorrow have become manifest; and how God is so near all things.
1. John i. 11-13 runs thus: He (Jesus Christ) came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name : which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
2. In these words we have precious ground of divine revelation, viz. the eternal In and Out. For they speak of this, how the hidden divine eternal Word of the divine power of the Unity came forth into the emanated, natural, creaturely, image-Hke Word, viz. into humanity, into his own.
3. For the emanated, image-like creaturely Word is the ever-speaking Word's property. And it is thereby clearly signified that his own, or the averse, image-like, particular will, received himp. 219p. 220 not. This individual, image-like will had arisen from its own ground, viz. from flesh and blood of the self-ful nature of man and woman, that is, in the separator of the emanated will, where the eternal will had confined itself in ownership, and would go forth and rule in personal power and might.
4. This received not the eternal Word (which, as an outflow of divine grace, again came forth to the averse will), for it would be an individual lord. But the will which has turned round, so that it has been born anew in the divine outflow of love, to that gave he power to become God's child. For it is not the natural, individual will can inherit the divine childship, but only that which, united with the Unity, is one with all things, in which God himself works and wills.
5. Wherein we clearly understand how the inward ground has extroverted itself and made itself visible, and is a peculiar possession of God, as an efflux of divine power and wiU.
THE END.
52. A prisoner is comforted only by his release, until he place his will in hope, and compose himself with patience; and so at last his restlessness falls into hope, into the temperament, and he learns in such hope to become humble. Then, if one tells him of his release, he rejoices.
53. Therefore, you physicians, observe it, that is your pearl, if you can understand this, the meaning is internal and external.
CHAPTER IV
Of the In and Out. How the eternal will of God carries itself outicards and into perceptihility, inwards and again into the One.
Here may he understood to what end the being of this world was created, and zehat purpose the creaturely ground serves. Further, to what end joy and sorrow have become manifest; and how God is so near all things.
1. John i. 11-13 runs thus: He (Jesus Christ) came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name : which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
2. In these words we have precious ground of divine revelation, viz. the eternal In and Out. For they speak of this, how the hidden divine eternal Word of the divine power of the Unity came forth into the emanated, natural, creaturely, image-Hke Word, viz. into humanity, into his own.
3. For the emanated, image-like creaturely Word is the ever-speaking Word's property. And it is thereby clearly signified that his own, or the averse, image-like, particular will, received himp. 219p. 220 not. This individual, image-like will had arisen from its own ground, viz. from flesh and blood of the self-ful nature of man and woman, that is, in the separator of the emanated will, where the eternal will had confined itself in ownership, and would go forth and rule in personal power and might.
4. This received not the eternal Word (which, as an outflow of divine grace, again came forth to the averse will), for it would be an individual lord. But the will which has turned round, so that it has been born anew in the divine outflow of love, to that gave he power to become God's child. For it is not the natural, individual will can inherit the divine childship, but only that which, united with the Unity, is one with all things, in which God himself works and wills.
5. Wherein we clearly understand how the inward ground has extroverted itself and made itself visible, and is a peculiar possession of God, as an efflux of divine power and wiU.
THE END.
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