The Progressive Life and Its Requirements; Or, the Beneficence of Nature's Laws (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INSTRUCTION II THE VALUE, USE AND BENEFITS OP THE PHYSICAL ORGANISM Humanity is functioning on a much lower plane than the standard of its capabilities. Through disobedience to nature's laws progression has been interfered with and deflected; therefore, the present status of humanity represents a degraded state. Probably no one thing has been and is less understood, more misrepresented and more misused than the human body and its senses. Without a clear understanding of the purpose of your physical organism, and a conscientious application of that which you know, you cannot develop in the way prescribed by nature. The average mind, in its present degenerate state, is prone to swing from one extreme to another, and it is at these extreme points of the compass that we find the masses of the people physically, mentally and spiritually functioning. What is needed is equilibrium, or a place of balance; for only when this is preserved can the truth be seen. In regard to the human body this extreme attitude is especially notable. Generally speaking, we may divide the world into two classes?those who misuse the bodyfor indulgence, and those who belittle and bemean it as a stumbling block and an encumbrance. The value of the body is more instinctively felt than understood; its use is not known, and its benefits are not realized. The various religions of the world have garbled the subject of the human body until not a ray of light penetrates the maze of theories and conjectures with which they have bewildered the people, while the facts that show the real value, use and benefits of life in the physical body, here, on the earth or material plane, have been almost lost to human consciousness. The human body is an incalculable blessing?an opportunity for progression whi...