Spirit of Christ comes only when man has grown strong and wise enough to control the animal of him, exactly as an oak tree has to grow and acquire size, strength and substance from the soil, air and sunshine, and the ability to weather heat and cold and the storms and stresses of life, until it reaches its budding stage and can give forth acorns, its fruit, which is the spirit or purpose of the oak’s life; even as Christ is the fruit, the spirit and the purpose of man’s life.

We have shown that there is an antagonistic or opposing intelligence operating in all nature, recognized by many as the devil, or Satan. In an article in the January, 1934, issue of this magazine, entitled “Satan and Subversive Forces,” was shown just what is this great seductive intelligence, and how it serves as the Adversary or Tester which ever spurs man on to win freedom from its malign influence—when he once recognizes its destructive nature; which means it is the agency or power used by God to develop man’s understanding, discrimination and strength.

In the inner realms of consciousness, between the outer physical and the Kingdom of God, are to be found the millions of souls of men in their various stages of development and unfoldment as human beings, and these stages constitute the path or the road all men must travel on their return journey back to their heavenly Father’s home.

For it must be remembered that every man is a human soul that is his soul that returns to God, and not the physical man; and his soul may be of the earth, earthy—that is, bound and enmeshed in the flesh or in man’s animal nature; or it may have turned away from earthly things, having learned that they do not provide satisfaction and happiness, and has either won freedom from their influence or is determined to free itself. In the latter, the soul has started on its return journey and is more or less under the guidance of the Spirit of God.

Keeping in mind that it is the soul of man and its stage of unfoldment that is the determining influence back of man’s life and actions in the outer physical world, we wish to present to our readers for their earnest consideration a series of articles on the

* This powerful and informative article is one that every reader should study, because of its relation to what is contained in the present series of articles, to what is happening in the world today, and to what will follow this year and in succeeding years. The Jan. ’34 issue is available at 15c.

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