The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MARCH 1936

Man does not pass from earth into “Rest Eternal,” but passes from earth into “Life Eternal.” That thing we call Death is only a gateway where the soul returns to the Realms of Light whence it came.

In believing this man can throw away his fears, cast aside his petty greed, can fling away his protective armor, and view wider vistas than those afforded him through his vizor. His perspicacity sharpens, and he sees—as the X-ray see—through the armor of his fellowmen and beholds those timorous hearts that quail before the fearsome problems that life presents. He learns that the greatest problem conjured by man is fear—fear for body, for health, for food, and greatest of all—fear of Death!

Men must be brought to recognize the divine spark within them, must know that their earth journey is only a classroom, a melting pot, or a crucible through which they must pass to attain a higher and purer soul substance.

When men come to recognize this, and humble their hearts to follow the words of the Master—then the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

Until man overcomes fear, which keeps him chained, he can never hope to gain freedom from sin, sickness and woe.

Fear drives men to warring with one another; massed fear sets nations into maddened frays.

Strangle the demons of fear, Oh Brethren. Cast them out and rise to the beauty of a cleaner, more beautiful and happier day!

WAR CLOUDS darken and gather—the ignorance of God’s laws has built walls of superstition and hate about the world. Men who should live together as one, stand at variance with one another. Only ignorance that stunts men’s vision can cause war—ignorance of the alchemy that is life—that earth is the crucible through which men must walk to emerge pure gold!

Until it is given men to know that the garnering of vast wealth and power for selfish purpose brings only destruction down upon their own heads, there will be sickness, misery and sin.


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