Desert and Plam Trees

MAN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

 

Chapter 28 - The Goal at the End of the Journey

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        It is now time to describe the object to be achieved by the solution of the problem of reconciling God and a wife, now that a few of the difficulties and the basic method of solution have been outlined. The desire of all lovers from the beginning of time has been to belong to each other, and to possess each other completely for ever. Naturally it is the same with God and man, as it is for man and woman. Superficially the union can tolerate no rivals. If a man believes that God exists outside his own imagination, then he must believe that he is the living reality in the invisible world all around us. This invisible world is not a foreign world to most of us; not to the lawyer anyway. To be able to examine and cross-examine witnesses, to be able to speak effectively in public demands at least a limited knowledge of human nature, and what makes men tick. Professional experience is nothing other than a cold disciplined familiarity with the invisible occult world around us. If a man believes that God exists then he has to come to terms with this living reality in the occult world. Unless the man similarly comes to terms with his wife, not only in the conventional everyday world in which we live, but also in the occult world as well, he will find he has a different relationship with her from the one he has with his God.