Part V: “Now that you have come to maturity and feel the promptings of the soul's outreaching and yearning for something higher, nobler, and better, you must go forward. But alas, before you, all is dark and uncertain and something within you seems to admonish you that the pathway that lies before you is strewn [...]
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the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxii (exit from the old to the new)
Part 2 (cont): “Having covenanted your life to God that you may become one of the first ripe fruit of the earth, you are going through the process of harvesting, of being cut down, separated from the ground; you no longer live from the earth, but you live from God. As the Master said, “If [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxii (exit from the old to the new)
Part II: “During the centuries that the Christian religion has been the religion of the Occident, “conversion” has been the line between the Christian and the non-Christian. We find from reading the experiences of the apostles given in Acts, Romans, and Corinthians, that in their time, conversion was called “receiving the Holy Ghost.” In modern [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxii (exit from the old to the new)
Part II: “In the chapter on “The Image and the Likeness”, we have portrayed the high plane designed by the Divine Purpose for the people at the closing cycle of the Christian era. Many after reading this work will say in themselves: This is too far beyond me. I can never attain it. Then why [...]