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SLAUGHTER OF ENEMIESA symbol of the subdual and dissipation of the passions desires and illusions of the lower nature which are the foes of the Higher Self Thus saith the Lord God of Israel Behold I myself will fight against you Zedikiah with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm even in anger and in fury and in great wrath And I will smite the inhabitants of this city both man and beast they shall die of a great pestilence Jeremiah xxi 4 6 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked O God depart from me therefore ye bloody men For they speak against thee wickedly and thine enemies take thy name in vain Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee I hate them with perfect hatred I count them mine enemies Psalm cxxxix 19 22 These imprecatory passages refer to the lower impulses of the natural man The lower qualities must be opposed and destroyed for they are the enemies of the higher nature The voice of God in the conscience is full of wrath and fury against wrongdoing Every evil quality has to be overcome and slaughtered It is possible to bring down to the earth the perfect standards of the heavens to stop thinking about safety and comfort and salvation altogether and to be splendidly inspired with the consciousness that we are soldiers under God to think of our own sins not as the things which are going to condemn us to eternal torture but as the enemies of Him the hindrances that stand in the way of His victorious designs to see their badness not in their consequences but in their nature not in their quantity but in their quality and so to bring to bear upon the very least of them the intense hatred and intolerance which the very nature of sin must always excite in him who has attained a true passion for holiness So it is possible for us to deal with every sin little or great that we discover in our hearts To count it Gods enemy and to fight it with all His purity and strength that is what it means for us that our sword should be bathed in heaven Isaiah xxxiv 5 Phillips Brooks |
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