The Spirit and the Flesh
Evolutionary
mortals inhabiting normal worlds
Of spiritual progress
Do not experience the acute conflicts
Between the spirit and the flesh that characterize
Present-day Earth races.
Still, even on ideal planets,
Pre-Adamic man must put forth positive efforts to
Ascend from the purely animalistic plane of existence
Up through successive levels of
Intellectual meanings and higher spiritual values.
While the mortals of a normal world
Do not experience constant warfare between their
Physical and spiritual natures,
They do face the necessity of climbing upward
From the animal levels of existence to
Higher planes of spiritual living.
However, this ascent is more like
Undergoing educational training
Compared with the
Conflicts of Earth mortals.
Earth people suffer a double deprivation
In the task of progressive planetary
Spiritual attainment.
The Lucifer
upheaval precipitated worldwide confusion
And robbed all
subsequent
Generations
of the moral assistance that
A well-ordered
society would have provided.
Even more disastrous
was the
Adamic default
in that it deprived the races of the
Superior type
of physical nature
That would have
been more conducive
To spiritual
aspirations.
It was the divine plan that the mortal
races of Earth
Should have physical natures more
Spirit responsive.
Notwithstanding the double disaster
To man's nature and his environment,
Present-day mortals would experience less warfare
Between the flesh and the spirit if
They would enter the spirit kingdom.
The faith sons of God enjoy relative deliverance
From the bondage to the flesh in
Wholehearted devotion to doing the will of the Father.
Jesus demonstrated the new way of mortal living
Whereby human beings could
Escape the consequences of the Lucifer rebellion and
Compensate for the deprivations
Resulting from the Adamic default.