HPB-SB-1-131: Difference between revisions

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  | source title = Spiritual Scientist

  | source details = v. 4, No. 5, April 6, 1876, p. 57

  | publication date = 1876-04-06

{{Style S-Small capitals|The}} self-initiated, that is, spiritually initiated, ancients and many modern ones also, as in the case of Jacob Boehme, arrived at the climax of soul government after a fearful amount of perseverance and under very disadvantageous circumstances, especially in their Regimen. Poverty undoubtedly prevented undue surfeiting of the organism in his case, but he must have had the seeds of organic disease hereditarily as well as been often deprived of the bare necessaries of life, during a great part of his existence, for we see him dying a natural death about fifty—quite young for a Cabalist, not killed by violence nor taken away by his own desire. Hence I infer that Boehme had not got a correct knowledge of the value of food, and may have gone on the old principle of absolute starvation or lasting from all foods. It is the animal only we are to avoid and to keep free from surfeiting by using the fruits of the earth in moderation; these mankind quietly submits to and accepts as intended for all at all seasons, at least as a part of our food.

 

This knowledge of food contributes immensely to accelerate the best form of ''soul regeneration; ''for that is under true conditions, after all but a question of time with any one with a ''Witt ''so disposed. Drugs, chemicals, tobacco, yeast, and all alcoholic drinks must be scrupulously avoided.

P.S. I am delighted to see {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB crossed out|L}}{{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|Z}}eus's article in Spiritual Scientist of Feb. 17; he certainly comprehends the spirit of Cabalism closer than any I have met, except one or two perhaps.

I differ slightly with him in the “animal passions’’ being ''“essential ''for this life.” That they are inseparable from a life in the sensual world is undoubted; but the fact that we make laws to restrain them is a proof that even man, as he now is, admits that they are out of place and that he would be better without them. The fact is that the ''great work ''cannot be accomplished until all the ''animal passions ''are {{Style S-Small capitals|completely silenced}}. It is this that occupies the time for the intellect or ''Will ''to effectually overcome and obliterate ''every shallow of prompting ''to evil thoughts—which ''will keep cropping up ''long after the hard line of duty to your neighbor has been laid down and carried out rigidly, and so prevent the influx of the soul.

 

I quite agree with Leus that we have a great advantage over the spirit-world in Cabalism, at least with all I have been permitted to come in contact with through mediums.

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  | source details = v. 4, No. 5, April 6, 1876, p. 57

  | publication date = 1876-04-06

{{Style S-Small capitals|Dear Sir}}: — When your correspondent Berkley shall ask of Barnum’s Talking Machine, “Who are you?” and its black leathery tongue shall slowly and solemnly answer him, “Gen. Grant," I shall not dispute his right to accept his testimony, nor that other right of his to exercise the prerogative of masculine superiority and vote accordingly. So I shall not dispute his right to accept every claim imposed upon him in regard to “mediumistic emanations,” whether of mind or matter, if he prefers this method to the more laborious one of using his common sense for purposes of investigation while adhering to a firm resolve to accept nothing but the truth.