Nature and Unity: Selections from “The Perfect Way or the Finding of Christ” by Dr. Anna Kingsford (vegetarian), Lecture 5, Part 2 of 2

“In the system of the unregenerate man there are many elementary wills, all mutually antagonistic and destructive, the mind warring against the heart, and the senses against the intuition, so that the man is, as it were, torn by contrary winds, and carried hither and thither by diverse passions. And of this condition the result is first spiritual disease, that is, sin, and finally death, that is, dissolution. But in the regenerate man one harmonious will prevails throughout the whole being, because of every element therein, the will, which is the spirit, operates in one direction, causing every elementary ego to polarize itself centrally, and thus producing throughout the whole system a regularized series of molecular currents, of which the resultant collective current is the Will of the Man himself. And of this Will — united by attraction to the Divine Will, which is the ‘Universal Magnet’ — the central point of radiation is the Microcosmic God, the Adonai of the human kingdom. Himself the Express Image of the Infinite Personality. Such is the condition of the Man Regenerate and Redeemed.”

“Such also is the generation of the astral incubi and ephemera. It occurs through the disintegration of the collective Will of the system concerned, and the divergence of the parts in different directions, with consequent dispersion of the mental forces, and their dissipation in the Extraneous and Illusory.”

“The Buddha Gautama when dying, said to his disciples: ‘Beloved, that which causes Life, causes also Death and Decay.’ The allusion was, doubtless, to the operation of the magnetic body, by which is formed the embryo before birth, and by which, likewise, the magnetic forces of the earthly frame are gradually re-absorbed and exhausted.”

“And, where the astral, or merely protoplasmic, has itself been in great measure transmuted into psychic substance, the process implies, necessarily, a reversion from the material to the spiritual plane. In such wise have passed away most of the saints and holy men of all lands; and with a dissolution of this kind, the relations of the redeemed soul with Matter may terminate altogether. It is the consummation of the redemption from the power of the body and from the sting of death, which is ‘sin.’”