From previous Blog; The appetites and desires given to humans were intended to work in harmony, and in such workings humans were kept from sin, by not violating God’s laws of harmony. But after the first disobedience – which is the greatest demonstration of the power of humans to exercise their will – and after they lost the great potential to receive God’s Divinity, succeeding disobediences became easier. And as these continued to occur, humans lost, to a great extent, the desire for spiritual things and the animal or physical part of their nature asserted itself.
Then, instead of exercising these appetites which belong to the physical nature in such a way that no inharmony would ensue – and here let me say that even after the fall it was possible, and even expected, that humans would exercise these appetites in the way mentioned – they indulged them beyond their proper functions, and increased such indulgence until they commenced to find, as they thought, more pleasure in such indulgence than in the thoughts and exercise of their higher nature, and in the aspirations which belonged to it.
This deterioration of humans was not sudden, but gradual, until at one time they became in a state or condition of bordering on that of the lower animals. In fact, because of this increased indulgence of these animal appetites, they seemed to be transformed into the lower animal; but yet they were still human – a being created in the image of the Creator.
From this position of low degradation or degeneracy, humans slowly commenced to progress towards the attainment of their original condition before the fall. Never in all this time was the free will taken from them or attempted to be controlled by God; but always the law of compensation worked, and humans suffered as they continued to creaate sin and evil.
As humans on earth continued to degenerate, and to permit their “animal nature” to donimate their spiritual nature, people died, and their physical bodies went back to the dust of which they were created, and their spiritual selves became inhabitants of the spirit world, where they were freed from the desire to exercise the animal appetites. Then the spiritual part of them again asserted itself. Many of these spirits became free from sin and evil, and in harmony with God’s laws. They then began to assist humans on earth to elevate their spiritual condition.
To be continued.