the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xviii (the Likeness of God)

“All nature, wherever the mind turns, is in action, and the higher the realm the more intense is the action. Love is the action of life, or life in motion, and “God is love”, and God's love links him with all his creation. There can be no evolution without involution – that which is involved, [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xviii (the Likeness of God)

“We have seen in former chapters that the Elohim consist of mature souls that have come into the form of the heavenly temple, an organized Body of perfected souls which most assuredly consists of both men and women; for, as the apostle says, “neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xviii (The Likeness of God)

“Before his crucifixion, Christ commanded his disciples to remain in Jerusalem, in prayer and supplication, until the day of Pentecost, and we read that on that day, the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples, appearing to them as “cloven tongues of fire”; that “there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xviii (The Likeness of God)

“In the preceding chapter, we viewed man as dependent upon the earth and being “of the earth, earthy”, and also in some of his relations to the Divine Likeness. We shall now consider some of the methods by which man is raised from the animal, earthy state into the spiritual; for nothing in the universe [...]