Gleaning of a Mystic

forces which invest the earth are the invisible causes of

elow," a similar activity must take place in ma

; he is too far progressed for the lunar vibrations for he has thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves. But he is not yet attuned to the solar month of thirty-one days, and he mates at all times of the year; hence the periodical flow in woman, which under proper conditions is utilized to form part of the body of a child more per

written in our literature we understand the Fall to have been occasioned by man's impulsive and ignorant use of the sex forces at times when the interplanetary rays were inimical to conce

cures the light of heaven from the spirit within. The spirit is like a diamond in its rough coat, and the celestial lapidaries, the

he63 rough diamond may become a gem of transcendent beauty and purity. Similarly, the celestial beings in charge of our evolution hold us closely to the grindstone of experience. Pain and suffering resu

th all the anguish of a devout, aspiring heart: "Oh wretched man that I am * * * The good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do * * * I delight in the law of

hey will but serve to bring out the sweetness of the nature and enhance the beauty of the soul till it shines with an effulgence that marks the wearer as with a halo. Then he is upon the path of Initiation. He is64 taught how unbridled use of sex regar

horns;" like always begets like, and an incoming ego of a passionate nature is drawn to parents

orce and has drunk to the dregs the bitterness thereof, will gradually seek paren

es. Therefore the Gospels (which are formulae of Initiation) commence with the account of the immaculate conception and end with the crucifixion, both wonderful ideals to which we must some time attain, for each of us is a Christ-in-the-making, and will

ginity of the mother even after giving birth to other children; the lowly station of Joseph, the suppose

hose in modest positions. We have nothing against the expression "wellborn;" we would that every child were well born, born to parents of high moral standing no matter what their station in life. There is a virginity of soul that

ruitful, and multiply." Besides, it was necessary that man should temporarily forget his66 spiritual nature and concentrate his energies upon material conditions. Indulgence of the sex passion furthers that object, an

of the transgressor, such as war, pestilence or famine. Rewards for dutiful observance of the mandates of the law were not wanting either; t

the quality of the bodies improved, and at the time of Christ the desire nature had become so far amenable to control in the case of the more advan

gher sense. God is the Grand Architect of the universe. Under Him are67 many builders of varying degrees of spiritual splendor, down

te is able to choose his sex he usually takes the positive masculine body, as the life which brought him to Initiation has spir

ype to receive an ego of superlatively high degree. Then a high Initiate may take a female body and go through the experience of matern

es that are immaculately conceived; and the sooner we commence to purify our minds of passionate thoughts, the sooner we shall attain. In the final analysis it only depends upon the earnestnes

aged; Rome was not built in a day. Keep on aspiring though you fail

your aspirations to