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1doms of matter and consequendy to all ascending life spirits. So re¬ peat this from your soul before each meal; “Eternal spirit in whom we live, breathe, move and have our being, consecrate this food we are about to partake of, to our bodies as well as our souls, and also to those ministers of thine who may be present. Peace be between us.” Then throw some salt down to the spirit of earth. When the soul calmly looks upon virtue and vice, as power and sin, and suffering as experience; then is the angel evolving; but make no mistake, vice must be conquered. The Avatar, the Messenger, must be the harp whose notes vibrate in all the spheres. To be that harp, the physical body must be mediumistically sensitive, with a strong, dominant soul in control, allowing, however, the body to vibrate sympathetically to all forms of suffering. The Messenger must feel. It is feeling that creates. Figure the creation of a world first as vapor, which only FEELINGS and THOUGHTS can impregnate. The harp, the chord, the word, having felt with all; is the seed and Ra of a Universe.
2Cosmic consciousness, like any other flash-light of spiritual in¬ spiration and truth, is, on this plane, of very secondary importance so far as actual value is concerned. It is wholly worthless as a realization of any truth and at best, even in its highest manifestation it is purely personal, and means nothing to any one, outside of this one’s person¬ ality. Whatever idea or set of ideas happens to possess the soul of the person, their cosmic consciousness will be colored by it. We have three notable instances, viz., Andrew Jackson Davis, Jakob Boehme and Emanuel Swedenborg; each of whose cosmic at-one-ments were true; but whose sub-consciousness’s were possessed of different root ideas; hence they differed materially from each other, and all were wrong as to the real truth, per se. I, myself, have had this cosmic atonement at least a thousand times, in fact, it was a part of my daily life at one period; but unless you, yourself, be grounded in the very truth of things, these ecstatic trance-like experiences are about as valuable as those of St. Francis of Assisi; in other words, of no value whatever to any one but the personal experience of the person. One living, vital, clearly expressed thought is worth a thousand hazy spiritual dreams. The Immortality of the human soul depends upon action. The man or woman who lives a purely ignorant, worldly life, who does not in any sense feed the interior spiritual nature, drifts into a sort of
3, r'r\nnlf* Original from □igil ized by V -.1H JJJI L UN IVERSITY OF MICH IGAN 186 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT mental decay and spiritual rot; and at death, like the old tree, as it falls so it lies; but if the tree is cut during its vital life, when it is full of vigor, it instantly sends up a second growth far more powerful and vital than the first. It is the same with man, if he dies with spiritual vitality quickening his being, then he lives on after death, bridges the abyss of the two worlds, and has all the potentialities of a God within him. Immortality depends upon mental and spiritual vitality, not physical energy. The physical body is merely the earth, so to say, whose main office is the evolution of spiritual life; but man mostly makes it nothing but the basis and center of purely material ends. Jesus of Nazereth was right, “Lay up treasures where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, nor thieves break in and steal.” Thoughts, ideas and aspirations, become powers. To Be. These are re-incamated into other lives after some human soul has given them material birth; but the monad, the Spiritual Soul, the thing that thinks, NEVER. Its only chance for immortal life is Here and Now, when incarnated as man on earth. Man does Not return to earth a second or third time, to correct former errors and try anew. An acorn may become an oak tree but the tree never returns to an acorn.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1doms of matter and consequendy to all ascending life spirits. So re¬ peat this from your soul before each meal; “Eternal spirit in whom we live, breathe, move and have our being, consecrate this food we are about to partake of, to our bodies as well as our souls, and also to those ministers of thine who may be present. Peace be between us.” Then throw some salt down to the spirit of earth. When the soul calmly looks upon virtue and vice, as power and sin, and suffering as experience; then is the angel evolving; but make no mistake, vice must be conquered. The Avatar, the Messenger, must be the harp whose notes vibrate in all the spheres. To be that harp, the physical body must be mediumistically sensitive, with a strong, dominant soul in control, allowing, however, the body to vibrate sympathetically to all forms of suffering. The Messenger must feel. It is feeling that creates. Figure the creation of a world first as vapor, which only FEELINGS and THOUGHTS can impregnate. The harp, the chord, the word, having felt with all; is the seed and Ra of a Universe.
2Cosmic consciousness, like any other flash-light of spiritual in¬ spiration and truth, is, on this plane, of very secondary importance so far as actual value is concerned. It is wholly worthless as a realization of any truth and at best, even in its highest manifestation it is purely personal, and means nothing to any one, outside of this one’s person¬ ality. Whatever idea or set of ideas happens to possess the soul of the person, their cosmic consciousness will be colored by it. We have three notable instances, viz., Andrew Jackson Davis, Jakob Boehme and Emanuel Swedenborg; each of whose cosmic at-one-ments were true; but whose sub-consciousness’s were possessed of different root ideas; hence they differed materially from each other, and all were wrong as to the real truth, per se. I, myself, have had this cosmic atonement at least a thousand times, in fact, it was a part of my daily life at one period; but unless you, yourself, be grounded in the very truth of things, these ecstatic trance-like experiences are about as valuable as those of St. Francis of Assisi; in other words, of no value whatever to any one but the personal experience of the person. One living, vital, clearly expressed thought is worth a thousand hazy spiritual dreams. The Immortality of the human soul depends upon action. The man or woman who lives a purely ignorant, worldly life, who does not in any sense feed the interior spiritual nature, drifts into a sort of
3, r'r\nnlf* Original from □igil ized by V -.1H JJJI L UN IVERSITY OF MICH IGAN 186 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT mental decay and spiritual rot; and at death, like the old tree, as it falls so it lies; but if the tree is cut during its vital life, when it is full of vigor, it instantly sends up a second growth far more powerful and vital than the first. It is the same with man, if he dies with spiritual vitality quickening his being, then he lives on after death, bridges the abyss of the two worlds, and has all the potentialities of a God within him. Immortality depends upon mental and spiritual vitality, not physical energy. The physical body is merely the earth, so to say, whose main office is the evolution of spiritual life; but man mostly makes it nothing but the basis and center of purely material ends. Jesus of Nazereth was right, “Lay up treasures where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, nor thieves break in and steal.” Thoughts, ideas and aspirations, become powers. To Be. These are re-incamated into other lives after some human soul has given them material birth; but the monad, the Spiritual Soul, the thing that thinks, NEVER. Its only chance for immortal life is Here and Now, when incarnated as man on earth. Man does Not return to earth a second or third time, to correct former errors and try anew. An acorn may become an oak tree but the tree never returns to an acorn.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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