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-====== The Inner Life 1937 ======
+====== The Inner Life ======
-== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE ==
+== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JANUARY 1937 ==
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-DO WE HAVE TO EAT
-IN A VISION it was made clear to me that eating is as much
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-a sin as expending one’s forces in sex relations. This at first
+==== DO WE HAVE TO EAT ====
-I could not believe, for I was of the opinion that man must eat
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-food in order to live.
-Jesus quoted from the Old Testament when He said, “Man does
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-not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of
+IN A VISION it was made clear to me that eating is as much a sin as expending one’s forces in sex relations. This at first I could not believe, for I was of the opinion that man must eat food in order to live.
-the mouth of God.”—Deut. 8:3. Just recently I became aware
-that something was not right about this passage of the Scriptures.
-So I wrote to “Josiah Hopkins,” of the “Country Church of
-Hollywood,” and asked him to give me the correct translation of
-Deut. 8:3. This was his reply:
-“Man does not live by food, but by keeping every word man
+Jesus quoted from the Old Testament when He said, “Man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”—Deut. 8:3. Just recently I became aware that something was not right about this passage of the Scriptures. So I wrote to “Josiah Hopkins,” of the “Country Church of Hollywood,” and asked him to give me the correct translation of Deut. 8:3. This was his reply:
-has heard come out of God’s mouth.” You will notice that the
-“only” is left out of the true translation.
-At one time a teacher came and stayed with us—my wife and
+“Man does not live by food, but by keeping every word man has heard come out of God’s mouth.” You will notice that the “only” is left out of the true translation.
-self—for three days in our home. This teacher neither ate nor
-drank while with us. She told us that she ate only once every
-eleven days! She was more than fair to look upon and more
-plump than my wife who ate three meals a day.
-I question if there are many people who can believe this about
+At one time a teacher came and stayed with us—my wife and self—for three days in our home. This teacher neither ate nor drank while with us. She told us that she ate only once every eleven days! She was more than fair to look upon and more plump than my wife who ate three meals a day.
-not needing to eat to live. I would advise against anyone giving
-up eating until he not only had received instructions along that
-line, but had first educated the cells of his body. This is strong
-language to many, so I will try to make it clearer.
-The intelligence in each cell of the body is that which keeps
+I question if there are many people who can believe this about not needing to eat to live. I would advise against anyone giving up eating until he not only had received instructions along that line, but had first educated the cells of his body. This is strong language to many, so I will try to make it clearer.
-seeking for substance, and when it ceases to get that substance
-or is unable to get it, its desire to exist vanishes and it disintegrates.
-Some people are that way. If they cannot eat or do some
+The intelligence in each cell of the body is that which keeps seeking for substance, and when it ceases to get that substance or is unable to get it, its desire to exist vanishes and it disintegrates.
-other things, they do not care to live. Just the other day while
-talking to a friend, I told him that before many years man would
-not have to work for an existence. He said, “I would not want to
-live if I didn’t have to work.” I have heard others say, “The
-only thing I live for is to eat, etc., and if I couldn’t get it I don’t
-want to live.”
-I say that unless they change they will not live. It is this
+Some people are that way. If they cannot eat or do some other things, they do not care to live. Just the other day while talking to a friend, I told him that before many years man would not have to work for an existence. He said, “I would not want to live if I didn’t have to work.” I have heard others say, “The only thing I live for is to eat, etc., and if I couldn’t get it I don’t want to live.”
-very thing that will cause so many people to die in the next few
-years. The changes that are coming to pass upon the earth will
-be towards the Kingdom, and they will be unable to change
-their desires and life to conform to those changes; so naturally
-they will not wish to live under the New Order. Losing a
-desire to live, they naturally die.
-I believe the time will come when the only time to eat is
+I say that unless they change they will not live. It is this very thing that will cause so many people to die in the next few years. The changes that are coming to pass upon the earth will be towards the Kingdom, and they will be unable to change their desires and life to conform to those changes; so naturally they will not wish to live under the New Order. Losing a desire to live, they naturally die.
-when we meet together for a social time, and then the things we
-eat will be brought forth out of the atmosphere. That time will
-be after man has educated each cell that it has other things to
-live for than to eat. Then it will be obtained by the electron
-and proton. Those who have kept posted on the new discoveries
-of science will readily accept this as possible.
-SELF SURRENDER
+I believe the time will come when the only time to eat is when we meet together for a social time, and then the things we eat will be brought forth out of the atmosphere. That time will be after man has educated each cell that it has other things to live for than to eat. Then it will be obtained by the electron and proton. Those who have kept posted on the new discoveries of science will readily accept this as possible.
-S. B.
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-AH SELF, how painful is thy going!
-With what reluctant feet thou wend
-Thy weary way; and fearful fend
-The merest move that seeks to end
-Thy vain career.
-With what misgivings seest thou
-The clear handwriting on the wall—
-The words of doom that e’er recall
-The fate of thy deceiving pall—
-Duality.
-The doom that is most merciful;
-That ends hallucination’s throes,
-And frees thee from thy fancied foes,
-And brings to all thy countless woes—
-Oblivion.
-Ah self, give up! Thy mortal wounds
-Are deep—thy efforts to regain
-Are futile. Sing now thy last refrain—
-That which must ever be but pain,
-“Adieu forever!”
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