The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | OCTOBER 1936

None of us look for or expect miracles or any outstanding phenomena. The change is taking place in the hearts and minds of humanity. This change must precede the outer change, and will bring into full manifestation the New Jerusalem.

The prophecies of our Master Teacher, foretold nearly twenty centuries ago, have been and are still fulfilled to us all, and the vibrations of rebellion, dethronement of monarchs, bankruptcy, economic chaos, unemployment, depression, poverty, sickness, hunger, crime, murder and suicide—reach out their tentacles like a giant octopus to all.

This is the Battle of Life, fought on the field of materialism, apart from God, with self, in all its negative qualities, as the goal. It is the glorious Game of Life, wherein we build the structure of the Pyramid and place the Capstone in position—individually.

The Temple in the Wilderness, and Solomon’s Temple of Gold, were merely symbols. Many edifices of the same kind have risen and fallen, but as Daniel said, “The street shall be built again and the wall, even in troublous times, and at that time thy people shall be delivered.”

That time is at hand. The depression, and distress of mind and spirit, the stress in human affairs, have their limits, and when their purpose is accomplished, they will melt away like dross in the refiner’s fire of Truth.

This is the deliverance from evil that humanity has prayed for over a period of nearly two thousand years in the Lord’s Prayer. The Kingdom is appearing within to men and women today; they have learned, in seeking without and afar, that they have sought amiss. But now they return to their Father’s house, in preparation for His Service and to make ready for the Banquet awaiting them.

The Christed One said “Come out from among them, and be ye separate.” And many tired ones are hearing that command, and are returning in humility to the Father’s house.

During the past year in which the Master Mind has used me in the work of Love, I am very thankful to be able to tell you that I have found many, many more who have been eager and so willing to come up out of the enemy’s country, where, for so long, through


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