The Immortal Manhood; The Laws and Processes of Its Attainment in the Flesh (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: Section Two fA knowledge of the structure and function of the alchemico- organic world i/as a direct bearing upon social life, its organic structure and function, also upon the moral obligation and spiritual character of man and h's being. THE Koreshan literature has generally and specifically distinguished between immortal life and eternal being. However, we will still further elucidate this differentiation. The Lord attained immortality in the body, arising materially from the grave, exhibiting his material form after the resurrection. He did not remain on or in the physical plane of being after thus maturing his immortal life as the firstfruits of immortality. The immortal life of the Lord was transient, his visible form being dissolved and absorbed. His persona, mask, or covering, that is, his person, was obliterated, but not his individuality; for that was absorbed into the central throne of eternal continuity and consciousness. The Lord became indis- solubly one with the eternal God. He sits upon the throne, not as one of a tripartite Deity, but as the one and eternal Divinity. This is his eternal life ? immortality merged into eternity. Thus it will be seen that while the Godhead is personal, personalityis not a constant concomitant of the perpetuity of Deity. The personality of God appears in the manifestation of Jehovah, appearing as the Lord, the Son of God. The Sons of God, when they appear, come also in their personal forms, for these are the arch-natural and material forms appearing as the firstfruits also, but they remove their personalities when the transition obtains from the visible fruitage to the invisible and eternal life. The universe in its organic form and function is eternal. Its culmination in the fruition of the Sons of God has occurred myriads o...