The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MAY 1934

some theft, and then builds a vile prison and forces him into it by means of some lesser laws that he has made, and enforces the same by his greater mental or physical powers, is it conceivable that Divine Justice will let that neighbor escape punishment?

If Divine Law says, “the earth is the Lord’s,” and that it is the birthright of man, and a few men divide it up among themselves and make the great majority till it for their benefit, will it be possible to thwart Divine Law by means of the petty laws made by man to retain possession of that earth?

If Divine Law says a man shall do good and not evil, and if other men then take away his freedom of choice by laws which bind him to only one mode of procedure (whether they believe those laws will enforce the good or not), will not man deliberately break those laws to regain his freedom of action, whatever the after effect; and if man once realizes that these lesser laws were not really made for his safety, but only for his exploitation, will anything keep him from revolution in an effort to get back under the guidance of the Divine Laws which he feels were really made for his higher evolution?

As worldly conditions now are, the threatened revolution of a few years ago, when the open cry for reform first started, is far more imminent now, and it is the supposed reforms that are bringing it about—and they are doing this because of ulterior motives, the unjust methods, and the unwise laws which would rapidly reduce men to automata if they were allowed to increase and be perpetuated.

Get to the bottom of things. Do not be carried away by surface waters. Make the seeing of truth your object, instead of self-deception.


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