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BOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
But as time goes on and we learn to think aright more and
more, we shall at last obtain such a power of thought that
we shall be able to think the right thought at once in every
case without experimenting, and then we shall also be able
to speak our thought into actual being, as a thing. There
was a time, in the far, far past, when man was yet a spiritual
being and when the conditions of earth were more
plastic. Then he was taught directly by the Gods to use
the word as a means of creation and he worked thus formatively
on the animals and the plants. We are told in the
Bible that "God brought the animals to man and he named
them." This naming was not simply calling a lion a lion,
but it was a formative process that gave man a power over
the thing he named, and it was only when selfishness,
cruelty and unbridled anger unfitted him for the master-
ship that the word of power spoken of by the masons was
lost. When holiness shall have again taken the place of
profanity, the word will be found again and will be the
creative power of the divine man in a future age.