The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | NOVEMBER 1934
souls, and on another a seeming letting go of all moral restraint on the part of another large class. In between these two stands a third and much larger class influenced and torn by the conflicting emotions aroused in them by the two different appeals, attracting them first to one side and then to the other.
But it is also plain that these two sides are gradually getting farther and farther apart, and that those in between will soon be compelled to choose on which side they will stand; for the two classes or natures of souls will soon be so widely separated that they can never more exist or work together as one people, and everyone will be ranged on one side or the other, according to Jesus’ statement in the 25th chapter of Matthew.
For the one is now definitely following Christ, coming nearer and nearer to God’s Kingdom of Light, Purity and Peace, where Jesus Christ rules; while the other is rapidly sinking into the dense darkness of pure selfishness, where the Anti-Christ rules. The two nevermore can meet. Can you not see that?
What will be the outcome of it all? How much longer will this process of separation continue? How will it affect the world and the future of humanity? We will try to point out what looks to be the answers to these questions, and give our reasons for so thinking.
WE HAVE indicated in former articles that we are close to the end of another term in life’s school, that the examinations are nearly over and the time of promotion is almost upon us. What happens then? The decisions are made as to who are worthy and ready to pass into the higher grades, and who have failed. Then what? The promoted ones are moved into another room or school, prepared for the higher lessons to be learned; while the failures must stay in the same old grade and start over again at the beginning of its lessons.
It must be much like this, for every man on earth during the last five years has been severely tried, tested and examined—called upon to prove whether or not he has learned his lessons. When you realize that this life represents but a single grade in the great school of life, which has many grades, you can see how the above must be so, and how necessary it is that man first thoroughly learn the lessons in one grade, before he is ready to go on into the next.
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