The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JUNE 1933
earth are wide awake and consciously seeking their way back to their Father’s Home—back into His God Consciousness.
In the New Testament men are shown and taught through God’s Beloved Son, Christ Jesus, and His Apostles, the way of Regeneration through selfless love and service—the only way back unto the Father.
From all of the above you have seen that there was no mistake in Adam man yielding to temptation, as so many have wrongly taught, but that it was all part of the Divine Plan of Redemption; and that without man’s eating of the fruit of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and thus learning what evil is NOT, man could not gain the wisdom of the Gods, his divine heritage. Likewise, the sense of sin or separation planted in his consciousness by the Serpent, which consequently separated man in his ignorance from God in the Garden, and prevented him from eating of the fruit of the tree of Life—the power to conquer the great illusion of self and separation and of birth and death—until he had earned and won that power through repeated experiences in many lives, was also a part of the Plan. And both were highly essential to the outworking of the redemption of man, even as the Sons of God, man’s Higher Selves, had had to win Their way to Godhood through countless lives by a similar conquering and eliminating from Their Consciousness of the sense of separation from Their Father in Heaven.
Sin means disagreement or separation, so that sin is only an erroneous belief in separation, but it causes an actual sense of separation of one’s self in consciousness from God. Therefore, it can be seen why it was necessary by thus temporarily separating Adam man’s brain-mind’s consciousness from his soul consciousness and thereby
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