Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] TnE SEVEN CREATIVE PRINCIPJ.ES. 7
elevating his desires, hopeR, and a.qpirations above aJl things
mundane as to enable him to inspit·e, dt·aw in, and begin to
live from the life and mind power of the Holy Spirit. This
life and mind will give such power to the soul and light to the
intelligence, that the individual will be able, through the
superior power of the Holy Spirit to, like him, take control of
the creative forces i«t naturf'.
But it must be remembered that this cannot be done as long
as thet·e exists in us the least resistance to the perfect domination
by the mind and will of God, or, in other words, any will
or desire of ottr own whieh i!4 not in perfect consonance with
th~:~ name of God ; neither is there power in the seven creative
prineiples combined 11ufficient to take control of them, any more
than a stream can rise above its' fountain.
Although, in order to gain this control, we yield up our will,
hopes, desire!!, and everything to God, yet it must nut be understood
that we cease to labor and strive, not only to conform
out• lives to the reqnit·ements of the plan, purpose, the will,
ahont which we have been talking, but to bring the greatest
vigilance ancl the most untiring effort to the wm·k of !lobdning
and t~ontrolling our liveR, aml of beeoming co-workers with God
aud the angels in the lines marked out to us by the guiding intelligence.
So that, while to Rome it wonl!l appear that we
hold a perrectly ueg1Lti ve attitude, yet we rather lwld a receptive
condition toward God,-towarcl!l God the Holy Spirit
alone; but, in all othet· reRpectR, a muRt }lC)!Iitive and auti ve
attitude-mentally aml physically-mu!lt be maintained almost
day nnd night continuously, without which we cannot hope to
ohta.iu the powet· from God ovet· the creative forces of nature,
or, in other Wlll·ds, uhtain the dominion.
It il'l tme that the seeker afte1· magic may obtain many
wonclerfnl powers through the development of will, by confot··
mity to the conrse of these seven priudples, and, 11hall we not
say, by alliance of the mental ancl physical orglAniim to the
psychic or serpent natm·e; but the ultimate and perfect control
of all these p•·itwiples can only be accomplished through
embodying in ourselves the same Spirit that now rules over and
governs them.
The first lf'tter of the g•·eat name of God was a symbol of
deliverance to Israel when it was given to Moses for that purpose,
it began the covenant that God made with Israel in the
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