This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...the tree evil. Neither is good nor evil, because it is brought forth in a realm outside the Eden of Mind--it is in the domain of comparisons. "There is none good but one, that is, God." This good cannot be described nor compared; it must be felt in the soul. Therefore that which man pronounces good from the plane of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...the tree evil. Neither is good nor evil, because it is brought forth in a realm outside the Eden of Mind--it is in the domain of comparisons. "There is none good but one, that is, God." This good cannot be described nor compared; it must be felt in the soul. Therefore that which man pronounces good from the plane of comparison will not stand the searching scrutiny of the One Wisdom. Good must be absolute in order to form the basis of a permanent rule of life. Men set up standards of right and wrong as guides by which to regulate their moral conduct. When they do this from the discernment of the intellect they fall far short of a permanent standard. The intellect is a creation--a thing formed and therefore subject to that which formed it. It of itself has no original hold on understanding. It is the shadow cast by the perception of the ego in its search for Truth. When the shadow assumes to be substance, division takes place that leads to results unwelcome in both intellect and ego. Neither wants to be half made up, yet through a lack of right relation to the whole there is set up that semi-consciousness which is legitimate in neither. This is the "coats of skins" in which Adam is clothed outside the Garden of Eden. Ideas always clothe themselves under the impulse of the inherent law of Being, the Lord God, and every idea that floats into the mentality of the ego in the exercise of its free will is by this Jaw compelled tto make for itself an external surrounding, or state of consciousness. This law of the idea and its clothing is always operative whenever it functions, and it does not take into its field of operation the quality of understanding unless there is a special desire in that direction. This is how the "coats of skins"...
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