new church life: march/april 2017
and evil desires were cast into hell and so separated. Unless this had been done the
human race would have perished, for it is by means of spirits that the Lord rules
the human race. They could not have been dispersed in any other way because
there was no activity of the Divine by way of man’s rational concepts into his inner
sensory awareness, for these are far below the Supreme Divine when not so united.
The point is that the whole world is connected to the Divine by means
of human minds completing a circle of creation that flows from God down
into physical matter and then back up to Him as He is acknowledged, loved
and obeyed. When this circle is broken the world cannot continue to exist
since, speaking metaphorically, the energy has nowhere to go – just the same
as when a short circuit cuts off the flow of power in your house.
The thing is, for the connection to be effective there has to be a certain
level of understanding and respect for God in the world, and the problem at
the time of the Lord’s birth was that this level had reached such a low point that
the influx of life was just about to be lost. The Word of the Old Testament was
of course well known by the Jews, but nobody really understood what it meant
spiritually, and in the case of other religions, most were either polytheistic or
animistic, or were based on a totally abstract idea of God, so no truly human
connection could be made through them. These were the last remnants of the
Ancient Church.
But when the Lord took on His own natural human body and mind
among the Jews, as He learned the teachings of the Word He was able to see
and understand their spiritual meaning instantly, and because His inmost love
was Divine He was able to apply the teachings perfectly throughout His life. So
He Himself was able to bridge the gap between God and the world. He Himself
was able to restore the circuit that was
almost broken for all life on earth.
So we read in Isaiah, “His own
arm brought salvation for Him; and
His own justice, it sustained Him.”
(Isaiah 59:16) And again: “I looked,
but there was no one to help, and
I wondered, that there was no one
to uphold; therefore My own arm
brought salvation for Me; and My own
fury, it sustained Me . . . ” (Ibid.. 63:5)
The “arm” of Jehovah is of course
His Human life in the world, and the
“fury” mentioned is really a kind of
indignation that we can think of as
intense zeal for the truth.
When the Lord took on
His own natural human
body and mind among
the Jews . . . He Himself
was able to bridge the
gap between God and the
world. He Himself was
able to restore the circuit
that was almost broken
for all life on earth.
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