the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxv (exit from the old to the new)

“Having taken this covenant, you have become a neophyte, so to speak, in that wondrous order of Melchizedek, of which Jesus was the earthly representative in his time, for you remember the declaration of the Apostle (quoting from the Psalms), “Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”

After you have taken the name Yahveh, you are treated as you would treat your son; you are no longer carried in the arms as a child, but it is said to you: “You are a man, you are a woman, go forth and do.” The encircling arms have gone; you are fearful; you do not know what to do but remember that you have taken that covenant of obedience. Do you believe God? Then the first thing is to conquer fear by perfect confidence in God; by placing your life, your hope – everything – in the hands of the Spirit of the Highest.

Thus, like Abraham who believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness, you have only to believe God and to trust him and to keep your part of the covenant, to obey his voice indeed, then the angel of the Lord will go before you; and though you see him not; though you hear not the voice of a man, yet your mind is impressed, your intelligence is illuminated and guided so that you go forward doing the best you know day by day and hour by hour, believing that God will fulfill his part of the covenant by sending his angel to guide you and to keep you from error.

You are now required to act as a man, as if the responsibility and the intelligence were yours and you had to do the work yourself. And when you have done the best that you know, you will realize afterward that Divine Wisdom was imparted to you for the occasion, and as you go on, you rapidly gain confidence in the Father.

Then comes the second message from the Father, as it came to the children of Israel, that is, “Come not at your wives.” You have now passed beyond the dominating and controlling power of the law of generation, labor, sorrow, and death; you have now entered the path of immortality, the path that leads to the goal of eternal life and oneness with the Father. You must now keep the eternal sabbath; you must cease from your own works, the work of generation, and enter into the harvest field of Elohim.

Having entered into this covenant relation with God, you find that it is necessary to conquer the god of generation who has been dominating your body, to conquer “the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world”, whose throne is the function of generation; he must be conquered and cast down. In yourself there is no power to do this but remember your covenant. Remember who has promised to be your strength, your power, under all circumstances, and obey his voice indeed. Begin the work fearlessly, knowing that you cannot fail; for he who is the only power in all this broad universe has become your power, and your faith in that power makes it accessible to you in time of need.”

Hiram Butler

 

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