The Hidden Way Across the Threshold

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. MAN AND THE OPPORTUNITIES OF HIS LIFE. What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving, how express and admirable ! in action, how like an angel ! in apprehension, how like a God 1 th beauty of the world ! the paragon of animals ! ? HtimUt. Every man, whether in this world or within the Spiritual world, is naturally attracted to the society of others who are like him. Man's way to his highest level is always up-grade, and it is within his power to discover all the mysteries he is capable of understanding, even to those of Life and death. Most men have inequalities of character which produce discords. They thus deprive their interior of that harmony which is the companion of Spirit Truths. The Soul of our beings being so easily influenced either for good or evil, we should indeed be careful not alone of actions, but of all our thoughts; for as we do and think, so ve surround ourselves with the invisible Spirit power, which has all to do with our happiness and advancement; for it is a great necessity that we should know ourselves and our Spirit helpers, ere we drive away the loving influence about us for grosser and lower ones, which chain us down to a miserable existence and blind our eyes to all good. Even our best friends are forced away from us and our lives made a lonely waste by our friendship with anger, intolerance, pride, envy, and passion. There are, as has been said in a preceding chapter, two gigantic obstacles in the way of progress, viz.: 77/6- misapprehension of God and the misconception of Man. So long as man believes in a personal God who distributes favors and punishments at will; who can be reasoned with, persuaded and pacified by selfish, ignorant man, that man will remain within th..