“We have said that the angels of Elohim will be sent to you to reflect upon your consciousness the knowledge that you need. This needs some explanation which we shall give, so that when you have the experience you will not let it pass unheeded and thus lose the instruction intended for you. As we [...]
Category: The Goal of Life or Science and Revelation: Hiram Butler. 1908
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxi (exit from the old to the new)
“If you have some special treasure, special because it is the treasure above all other treasures, how carefully you guard it, how closely you watch it. If you see anything that is coming to injure it or to detract from it, how quickly you will rescue it from danger. So as soon as you decide [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxi (exit from the old to the new)
“This suggests something that has puzzled the world for ages – faith. What is faith? You who are sitting and reading these words can lay this book down, rise and walk across the floor. How do you do it, by what power? You do it by faith. If someone of your associates should say to [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxi (exit from the old to the new)
“Remember first that prayer is the sincere desire of the heart. Have you a sincere and earnest desire to be like the Christ? He is the great Door and Head of that Eternal Brotherhood on earth; who by his teachings and by the light of truth that he left to the world, has shown the [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxi (exit from the old to the new)
“While heretofore, suggestions have been given that cover the subject of this chapter and those following, yet, as they are associated with thoughts of greater or less magnitude, new to the majority of thinkers, they may have been overlooked. If we were going to ascend a ladder we should place one foot upon the first [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxi (exit from the old to the new)
THE PERSONAL APPLICATION “We introduce the following chapters to aid those whose minds are reaching out for methods by which to attain the ultimate that has been set forth in this work. We have not attempted to give the methods in their regular sequence, because the experiences of each individual will be different, and the [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xx (the image and likeness)
“This Body being, as we have said, the focal point of the planet, it will be able as was the Christ to command the unclean spirits and to control them absolutely, and in order that the world may be led up to this high plane, the dark influences that now hinder the progress of the [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xx (the image and likeness)
“We read – and it is true – that “God is a consuming fire”, and that “God is love.” We must bear in mind that it is not the gross fire that we know as fire, nor the gross passion that the world calls love, but it is a fire like that which Moses saw [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xx (the Image and the Likeness)
“While the gathering of the Body, according to the Revelation, will be the work of a short time, yet we are told that the perfecting of this body, the perfecting of its dominion over the earth, will take a thousand years. It is hardly reasonable to suppose that there is any one now living, even [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xx (the Image and the Likeness)
“In order to help the mind to comprehend so great a thought, let us imagine a man that is both male and female in his own person, builded of molecules which are individual men and women, a Grand Man possessing far more than 288,000 times the power of any individual that we have heretofore known. [...]