CHAPTER XII.

THE SPIRITUAL OR INNATE MIND.

"Therefore, there is now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnal minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." Romans 8 chapter, 1 to 6 v.

Moses and the Prophets and the Apostles, in their teachings, all recognize the dual nature of man; they all recognize the carnal and the spiritual man-that is the burden of the story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. This truth is the key to the Bible, and the essence of God's revelation to man. The fleshly man is born of woman, and the spiritual man was made by God in His own image. But this dual state only exists as result of sin. When sin shall lose its power, the material creation will cease to be real. When the Soul shall have overcome the Sex Lust of the Flesh in thought and desire and consciousness, the Senses of the Flesh will cease to be real to the consciousness of the Soul. The Soul was not conscious of the Material Senses until it conceived Sex Lust in consciousness and fell, and conceived the Mortal Concept of the corporeal man in the consciousness and brought forth the material man born of flesh.

This fleshly man-this carnal mind-is at enmity against God-cannot know and understand spiritual things and has no knowledge of the spiritual senses and

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spiritual laws which govern the spiritual man. fleshly man is death. He exists as result of sin, and is real in perfect spiritual purity.

The spiritual man made in God's image has spirit understanding, is subject to spiritual senses and spirit laws, and can know, realize and feel the ever presence the spiritual Creator. The spiritual man is life.

The Apostle Paul here recognizes this reveal truth. The spiritual mind is the opposite of the natur or carnal mind. The carnal mind only exists by th absence of spirit in thought. The spiritual mind is Li and the carnal mind is Death. The spiritual mind is bot the spiritual and physical life. The carnal mind is bot spiritual and physical death.

As you take into your state of spiritual conscious ness lust, hatred, malice and murder-the fruits of th carnal mind-you are destroying your spiritual life b taking into your spiritual consciousness spiritual death and at the same time destroying physical life by sendin these impulses over the nervous system poisoning and burning up the physical man.

As you shut out the thoughts of the carnal mind and take into your state of spiritual consciousness, the spiritual mind, you are sending thoughts of happiness, joy and peace over the nervous system, producing quietness and restfulness in the physical man that nature may work in an orderly manner and that assimilation and elimination may operate perfectly in the body and thus produce spiritual life and physical health.

"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" has a twofold meaning; it means spiritual life and physical life. It involves the law of sex-malice is in the sex-love is in the soul-the soul must overcome the sex to love. It means to take into life of the soul, spiritual consciousness, the spiritual mind and spiritual life; and in so doing, the mental impulses which are sent out by the brain over the nervous system of the body, are undisturbed by hatred and malice, envy and jealousy; and thus cause the organs of the body to function regularly, producing physical health and strength. The question of the decalogue is a sex question, as every question in nature is a sex question; and the spiritual life of the soul and eternal life is a sex

question. The soul must overcome the sex of the mortal creation, to have eternal life

The carnal and the spiritual minds are not only ever at war with each other as to spiritual life and spiritual things, but they are continually at war with each other as to physical life and physical health.

This innate or spiritual mind is the ever flowing current from the Spiritual Universe into the material man. This spiritual mind is an ever vital spiritual force imparted by the Universal Spiritual Intelligence, to the spiritual man, whom He made in His own image.

This spiritual mind of vital, life-giving current, is ever flowing and produces life spiritual and physical -in both the physical and spiritual man.

This spiritual mind is not dependent upon matter, the properties of matter or the friction of matter for existence. It is above matter, contrary to matter, and does not know material laws and is not subject to material laws. And when fully realized in consciousness, all material laws become as nothing. The Hebrew children were in this state of consciousness and the flames of fire were not real to them.

This innate or spiritual mind, is ever living and present. The carnal mind ceases to have a state of consciousness, when the physical man is absolutely asleep. The nervous system which connects the co-ordination between matter and Spirit is relaxed, and while in a state of sound sleep the carnal mind loses its control and state of consciousness over man.

But the innate or spiritual mind is ever presentperforming its life-giving function-and man is ever in a state of spiritual consciousness. This innate or spiritual mind controls the involuntary nervous system and organs of the body. When asleep and the carnal mind is suspended from action and a state of carnal consciousness, the innate mind keeps the involuntary nerve system in a state of action; the heart and pulse beating, the blood circulating and producing material life in the physical man.

The carnal and physical mind has no part in these life currents of the innate or spiritual mind, and when sound asleep, only the innate or spiritual mind is in action. And hence, the Bible records that God appeared to man

"In dreams." Abraham, while asleep, said: "Behol God is in this place and I knew it not. All through th Bible, we have God speaking to man while he is asleep When asleep, this carnal mind is suspended from actio and is not in conflict with the spirit al mind, and while i this state of spiritual consciousness, undisturbed by th carnal consciousness, God talked with, communed with and revealed himself to the Law Givers and the Prophetscommuned with and revealed himself to the spiritual man whom He had created in His own image.

This spiritual and innate mind sending its life giving currents over the nervous system, and producing vitality and physical life in the physical man, is the "All Good" of the Universe "God's Healing Power" of the Early Christian church. But for this spiritual mind to be realised entirely and completely in consciousness, the Sex Lust of the carnal mind must be completely excluded from consciousness.

When the physical man does not sleep soundly, and the carnal mind is intervening in the consciousness of the innate or spiritual mind, he may have dreams which are produced through the nervous system, acting on the carnal mind. These dreams come from the carnal mind of the material man, and the external world. But when the physical man is absolutely sound asleep, the nervous system completely suspended and relaxed, and the carnal mind is not intervening in the consciousness of the innate or spiritual mind, the dreams and consciousness which are given forth, come from the spiritual and innate mind— the soul-the internal consciousness and spiritual world. The state of consciousness and dreams produced while man is in this state, is the inflowing consciousness from the spiritual world, producing life in the material man. These are the dreams spoken of in the Bible. This was the condition-physically, mentally and spirituallythat the Law Givers and Prophets were in, when God spoke to them in dreams and revealed himself unto them, when they were asleep.

It was when the carnal mind and the physical man were not interfering with the spiritual mind and the spiritual man in consciousness, that God spoke and communed with the spiritual Sages of Old. "The prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream, and he that hath my

word, let him speak my word faithfully" (Jeremiah 23: 28). "In a dream-in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth on men in the slumberings of the bed, then He openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instructions that He may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man" (Job 33: 15-16). Pride is the carnal mindSex Lust, the Senses.

It is this spiritual and innate mind which gives spiritual consciousness to the spiritual man, and communes with God when the carnal mind and the fleshly man are suspended and closed out of the consciousness of the spiritual man. There is spiritual virtue in dreams and spiritual truths revealed in spiritual dreams to the innate mind and spiritual man.

There are likewise fleshly dreams when the carnal mind through sensuality and lust shuts out the light of spiritual consciousness and the physical man, and the carnal mind dominates. "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise, also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion and speak of dignitaries" (Jude 7-8 verses). Carnal dreams are of the Sex and Lust Sensesand lust desires and thoughts conceived in the consciousness of the Soul.

These fleshly dreams are from the carnal mind and the flesh, and shut out the light of spiritual consciousness, and are death, both to the physical and spiritual man. They originate in the sex and lust senses of the mortal mind, and conceived in the consciousness of the Soul through Sex Lust.

The spiritual dreams are from the innate and spiritual mind, and come into the state of consciousness, when the carnal mind with its fleshly and lustful desires is shut out from the state of spiritual consciousness. They come into the state of consciousness when the innate and spiritual mind is in full play and has complete control over man, and are lifegiving, both spiritually and physically.

The innate or spiritual mind is healthy and life-giving both to the physical and the spiritual man. This innate mind is a part of the Spiritual Universe-and Spirit is life. When the spiritual and innate mind is held in a state