INTERNAL RESPIRATION

A picture of the New Age and the New Life that will be expressed in every man, as shown us by a great soul, Thomas Lake Harris, nearly three quarters of a century ago.

THERE will arise on earth a Society called the “Brotherhood of the New Life.” Internal Respiration being the bond of Union in the Lord.

In Christian and Pagan Nations, among Jews and Gentiles, both bond and free, this fraternity will exist. Whoever becomes a Brother of the New Life, through the full re-opening of the respirations, being in preparation to become a living tabernacle of Christ, will henceforth stand to the Lord, to the angels, to men, to evil spirits, in relations radically different from those of others.

When the Lord has opened the respiratories of any man and continually breathes by his Divine Spirit through the spiritual into the natural lungs, the law of the new kingdom, which is righteousness and peace, becomes his law. The constant burden of his aspiration is then “Thy will, O Lord, be done.” He bears the visible fruit of the angelic life, on earth.

No spirit can be bound directly or mediately, except through those who have passed through the lesser stages of Internal Res- piration, and entered into the first of its greater stages. These are called Kings and Priests unto God. They rule through total self abnegation, and minister through simple direct obedience to the Lord.

Being in this condition, they are dependent for a vital breath upon the air of heaven, as other men are dependent upon the terrestrial atmosphere; upon the food of heaven, as others are upon daily bread; on the Divine Guidance through the Inmost Voice flowing into and quickening the super-rational judgment, as others upon the rational judgment; and such are consciously amenable to the standards of the Celestial Society, as others are to the tribunals of the terrestrial state.

This is the prospective condition of the New Christendom, wherein as the Lord declares, all things shall be made new. Those who are conversant with the writing of Thomas Lake

Internal Respiration

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