THE MEASURE OF A MAN
ALL THINGS THAT EXIST both in heaven and on earth, were created by God.
Since nothing can continue to exist except within the Law, under the Law, and in harmony with the Law,
THIS NECESSARILY INCLUDES BOTH HEAVENLY BEINGS AND HUMAN BEINGS.
All things, with the single exception of humankind, do live in harmony with the Law; hence though they change, they are not destroyed. Human beings (physically), having been created in the image of the Creator and for the purpose of becoming a co-creator with God, were given free Will.
This free Will implies the privilege and capacity to disfranchise oneself by thinking, desiring and acting contrary to the Law. The individual thus becomes- unless “converted,” i.e., changed from an outlaw to a law-abiding being- the Biblical “chaff,” to be destroyed.
Accepting Revelation as fact, the terms “angel” and “man” are more or less synonymous; the word “angel” being change-able to the word “man.” This gives the “key” whereby we may unlock the mystery of the Soul.
Again accepting the Biblical statement as authority, and recognizing that the outer or “lower” world was in need of beings or creatures, just as the upper world or “heaven” was populated with Angels, Archangels, Hierarchies and other Spiritual beings, God planned the creation of physical beings capable of existing in a physical or material world. These beings would be like other creatures - at first without reason or “Souls,” but under the Law and in harmony with the Law.
There were those in the heavenly or Spiritual sphere who, having had no other than Spiritual existence, had never experi-enced either love or hate. They had no knowledge of good or
evil. These beings, “angels,” – “THE MEASURE OF A MAN,” or COUNTERPART FOR MAN, became dissatisfied with their negative state, their mere existence. Within them was born the desire to experience and gain knowledge only to be had by running the full gamut of passions and emotions belonging to the status of a human being.
The physical creatures God had created were in need of Souls that they might be different from all other animal creatures, as were their bodies. The “Angels” (Souls) had a desire to descend that they might gain experience and the knowledge of good and evil.
The Creator, therefore, gave these desiring “Angels” or Souls the privilege to descend to earth and inhabit physical bodies with the proviso that THEY WOULD ACCEPT THE IN-EXORABLE LAW UNDER WHICH THEY WOULD BE COMPLETELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE EVILS COMMITTED WHILE IN THE BODY (PERSON) THEY WOULD INHABIT (INCARNATE IN). FURTHERMORE, THEY WOULD NOT BE PERMITTED TO RETURN TO THEIR FIRST ESTATE (BIBLICALLY KNOWN AS “HEAVEN”) UNTIL ALL OF THE EVILS COMMITTED WHILE IN THE BODY HAD BEEN COMPLETELY TRANSMUTED INTO GOOD AND ALL INDEBTEDNESS PAID AND FULL COMPENSATION MADE.
AFTER ALL EVILS WERE FINALLY TRANSMUTED OR OVER-COME, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL OBTAINED, THE MORTAL CHANGED INTO THE IMMORTAL, THE “SON OF MAN HAVING BECOME THE SON OF GOD,” THE SOUL WOULD THEN HAVE THE CHOICE OF RETURNING TO ITS FORMER SPHERE AS A HIERARCH IN THE HEAVENLY ECONOMY OR RETURN TO EARTH TO HELP OTHER MEN UNDERSTAND THE LAW AND FOLLOW IT TO THE BETTERMENT OF THEM-SELVES AND THEIR FELLOWMEN.
In the beginning of time, no one can know for how many centuries, the creature that was becoming A HUMAN BEING, lived within the Law as do all other creatures who are Soulless, and was at peace, as are all other creatures. This was the age of the Garden of Eden. Gradually, as humans gained greater reasoning powers, they devised ways and means whereby to evade or set aside the Law. At the first infraction of the Divine Edict, illustrated by the legend of the “apple” with which Eve tempted Adam they was cast out of the garden (their earthly heaven) and the Law, “By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy bread,” was pronounced upon them. When humans refused to learn the first fundamental lesson through this first infraction and resulting experience, we became outlaws. As time went on, we committed more and more offenses, reaping ever greater penalties, until we became as we are today . . . by comparison, the most cruel and vicious of all creatures - a scourge upon the face of the earth, PUNISHING BOTH OURSELVES AND OUR FELLOWMEN.
Primarily, each and every “angel,” as a Soul, descended to earth for the express purpose to first become human by becoming the “son of man.” The next effort was to gain ex-perience; through experience to learn good from evil; then eliminate the evil, NOT BY ANOTHER'S INVERVENTION OR SUBSTITUTION, but by overcoming all evil within oneself through the feelings of LOVE, MERCY, KINDNESS, GRACIOUS-NESS, ADORATION, REVERENCE, and HELPFULNESS.
This, in turn, would lead to transmutation, change or con-version of all evils; the mortal self becoming Immortalized; the “son of man” becoming a “Son of God” in accordance with God's word or Law.
Gradually, through suffering, sorrow, pain, anguish, failure and other untoward conditions experienced as a result of sensual pleasures and evils committed against fellow beings, the Incarnate Soul painfully awakened to the instability of the temporal and the certainty of something greater and more enduring. Thus awakened, the individual resolutely entered the pathway to inner unfoldment and, through conscious development, gained the victory over all that is temporal, evil and degrading.
At last, all so awakened and become Conscious return to their original source - not as mere Angels, but, through transmutation, transformation and REgeneration - born AGAIN of the Spirit, as formerly into the flesh - the SONS OF GOD.
All of the evils rampant in the world today are traceable to two main factors: first, disobedience to the Law and refusal to follow the clearly outlined path for the Soul's redemption. Second: The erroneous, utterly false and misleading idea that by mere repudiation of evils, instead of “full repayment to the last farthing” individuals can be redeemed and washed free from their evils, irrespective of how many Souls they may have sent to perdition by their acts.
The Law Is. It cannot be evaded by any means whatsoever. It is positive in its Action and REaction. No honest Soul is willing that another should take upon themselves the responsibility for its evils and pay its indebtedness.
There being so few Souls who are honest, willing, and anxious to pay their indebtedness in full, is it any wonder that the world is cursed with its many evils and that mankind suffers and groans under a heavy load, while daily the RED HORSEMEN of Revelation rides faster and wider, as more and more “chaff” is added to the pile to be destroyed, while the “wheat” to be garnered is slowly increased.
For the salvation of Humanity, all individuals MUST AWAKEN to their sins and accept their responsibilities. They must mobilize their forces and go forth to battle, at last defeating their own enemies WITHIN themselves that they may avoid being drawn into the vortex of destruction. You and you alone, can “save” yourself by obedi-ence to the Law so plainly given. The means and the method is that of being BORN again - through REbirth of his Spirit (Soul) into Godly Consciousness, culminating in SOUL ILLUMINATION.
Oddly enough, the most universal of all misunderstandings is the idea that, in order to succeed in things Spiritual, one must give up all that is pleasurable and enjoyable in life. Only that which belongs to “chaff” and which is to the detri-ment of oneself physically, morally, economically and Spiritually must be eliminated or destroyed. The good and pleasant things of life, so long as they are wholesome and constructive are to be encouraged.
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This free Will implies the privilege and capacity to disfranchise oneself by thinking, desiring and acting contrary to the Law. The individual thus becomes- unless “converted,” i.e., changed from an outlaw to a law-abiding being- the Biblical “chaff,” to be destroyed.
Accepting Revelation as fact, the terms “angel” and “man” are more or less synonymous; the word “angel” being change-able to the word “man.” This gives the “key” whereby we may unlock the mystery of the Soul.
Again accepting the Biblical statement as authority, and recognizing that the outer or “lower” world was in need of beings or creatures, just as the upper world or “heaven” was populated with Angels, Archangels, Hierarchies and other Spiritual beings, God planned the creation of physical beings capable of existing in a physical or material world. These beings would be like other creatures - at first without reason or “Souls,” but under the Law and in harmony with the Law.
There were those in the heavenly or Spiritual sphere who, having had no other than Spiritual existence, had never experi-enced either love or hate. They had no knowledge of good or
evil. These beings, “angels,” – “THE MEASURE OF A MAN,” or COUNTERPART FOR MAN, became dissatisfied with their negative state, their mere existence. Within them was born the desire to experience and gain knowledge only to be had by running the full gamut of passions and emotions belonging to the status of a human being.
The physical creatures God had created were in need of Souls that they might be different from all other animal creatures, as were their bodies. The “Angels” (Souls) had a desire to descend that they might gain experience and the knowledge of good and evil.
The Creator, therefore, gave these desiring “Angels” or Souls the privilege to descend to earth and inhabit physical bodies with the proviso that THEY WOULD ACCEPT THE IN-EXORABLE LAW UNDER WHICH THEY WOULD BE COMPLETELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE EVILS COMMITTED WHILE IN THE BODY (PERSON) THEY WOULD INHABIT (INCARNATE IN). FURTHERMORE, THEY WOULD NOT BE PERMITTED TO RETURN TO THEIR FIRST ESTATE (BIBLICALLY KNOWN AS “HEAVEN”) UNTIL ALL OF THE EVILS COMMITTED WHILE IN THE BODY HAD BEEN COMPLETELY TRANSMUTED INTO GOOD AND ALL INDEBTEDNESS PAID AND FULL COMPENSATION MADE.
AFTER ALL EVILS WERE FINALLY TRANSMUTED OR OVER-COME, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL OBTAINED, THE MORTAL CHANGED INTO THE IMMORTAL, THE “SON OF MAN HAVING BECOME THE SON OF GOD,” THE SOUL WOULD THEN HAVE THE CHOICE OF RETURNING TO ITS FORMER SPHERE AS A HIERARCH IN THE HEAVENLY ECONOMY OR RETURN TO EARTH TO HELP OTHER MEN UNDERSTAND THE LAW AND FOLLOW IT TO THE BETTERMENT OF THEM-SELVES AND THEIR FELLOWMEN.
In the beginning of time, no one can know for how many centuries, the creature that was becoming A HUMAN BEING, lived within the Law as do all other creatures who are Soulless, and was at peace, as are all other creatures. This was the age of the Garden of Eden. Gradually, as humans gained greater reasoning powers, they devised ways and means whereby to evade or set aside the Law. At the first infraction of the Divine Edict, illustrated by the legend of the “apple” with which Eve tempted Adam they was cast out of the garden (their earthly heaven) and the Law, “By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy bread,” was pronounced upon them. When humans refused to learn the first fundamental lesson through this first infraction and resulting experience, we became outlaws. As time went on, we committed more and more offenses, reaping ever greater penalties, until we became as we are today . . . by comparison, the most cruel and vicious of all creatures - a scourge upon the face of the earth, PUNISHING BOTH OURSELVES AND OUR FELLOWMEN.
Primarily, each and every “angel,” as a Soul, descended to earth for the express purpose to first become human by becoming the “son of man.” The next effort was to gain ex-perience; through experience to learn good from evil; then eliminate the evil, NOT BY ANOTHER'S INVERVENTION OR SUBSTITUTION, but by overcoming all evil within oneself through the feelings of LOVE, MERCY, KINDNESS, GRACIOUS-NESS, ADORATION, REVERENCE, and HELPFULNESS.
This, in turn, would lead to transmutation, change or con-version of all evils; the mortal self becoming Immortalized; the “son of man” becoming a “Son of God” in accordance with God's word or Law.
Gradually, through suffering, sorrow, pain, anguish, failure and other untoward conditions experienced as a result of sensual pleasures and evils committed against fellow beings, the Incarnate Soul painfully awakened to the instability of the temporal and the certainty of something greater and more enduring. Thus awakened, the individual resolutely entered the pathway to inner unfoldment and, through conscious development, gained the victory over all that is temporal, evil and degrading.
At last, all so awakened and become Conscious return to their original source - not as mere Angels, but, through transmutation, transformation and REgeneration - born AGAIN of the Spirit, as formerly into the flesh - the SONS OF GOD.
All of the evils rampant in the world today are traceable to two main factors: first, disobedience to the Law and refusal to follow the clearly outlined path for the Soul's redemption. Second: The erroneous, utterly false and misleading idea that by mere repudiation of evils, instead of “full repayment to the last farthing” individuals can be redeemed and washed free from their evils, irrespective of how many Souls they may have sent to perdition by their acts.
The Law Is. It cannot be evaded by any means whatsoever. It is positive in its Action and REaction. No honest Soul is willing that another should take upon themselves the responsibility for its evils and pay its indebtedness.
There being so few Souls who are honest, willing, and anxious to pay their indebtedness in full, is it any wonder that the world is cursed with its many evils and that mankind suffers and groans under a heavy load, while daily the RED HORSEMEN of Revelation rides faster and wider, as more and more “chaff” is added to the pile to be destroyed, while the “wheat” to be garnered is slowly increased.
For the salvation of Humanity, all individuals MUST AWAKEN to their sins and accept their responsibilities. They must mobilize their forces and go forth to battle, at last defeating their own enemies WITHIN themselves that they may avoid being drawn into the vortex of destruction. You and you alone, can “save” yourself by obedi-ence to the Law so plainly given. The means and the method is that of being BORN again - through REbirth of his Spirit (Soul) into Godly Consciousness, culminating in SOUL ILLUMINATION.
Oddly enough, the most universal of all misunderstandings is the idea that, in order to succeed in things Spiritual, one must give up all that is pleasurable and enjoyable in life. Only that which belongs to “chaff” and which is to the detri-ment of oneself physically, morally, economically and Spiritually must be eliminated or destroyed. The good and pleasant things of life, so long as they are wholesome and constructive are to be encouraged.
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