As ether is the avenue of vital, creative forces, and as angels
are such expert builders of ether, we may readily understand that they are eminently fitted
to be warders of the propagative forces in plant, animal and man. All through the Bible we
find them thus engaged: Two angels came to Abraham and announced the birth of Isaac,
they promiseda child
to the man who had obeyed God. Later these same angels destroyed Sodom for abuse of the creative force.
Angels
foretoldto the parents
of Samuel and Samson, the birth of these giants of brain and brawn. To Elizabeth came the
angel (not archangel)
Gabriel and announced the birth of John, later he appeared also to Mary with the message
that she was chosen to bear Jesus.
The
Desire World.
When spiritual sight is developed so that it becomes possible to
behold the Desire World, many wonders confront the newcomer, for conditions are so widely
different from what they are here, that a description must sound quite as incredible as a
fairy tale to anyone who has not himself seen them.[pg 075]Many cannot even believe that such a world exists, and that other people
can see that which is invisible to them, yet some people are blind to the beauties of this
world which we see. A man who was born blind, may say to us: I know that this world exists,
I can hear, I can smell, I can taste and above all I can feel but when you speak of light
and of color, they are nonexistent to me. You say that you see these things, I cannot
believe it for I cannot see myself. You say that light and color are all about me,
but none of the senses at my command reveal them to me and I do not believe that the sense
you call sight exists.
I think you suffer from hallucinations. We might sympathize very sincerely with the poor man
who is thus afflicted, but his scepticism, reasonings and objections and sneers
notwithstanding we would be obliged to maintain that we perceive light and
color.
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