Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] TuK SEYEN CaKATIVE PRINCIPLES. 157
of body ami soul, which produce inspiration, or enable the individual
to draw to and incorporate within himself that by which
he feeds and gt·ow!l, is governed by the natural sympatl•ies, or
desires; and Discl"imination is, untler 11uch circumstances, as
the hand~ which realll1 out into nature and select Rnch things liS
are demanded. Now, if the mind is on a low plane of life, seeking
wealth or sensuous pleasures, the pbyRical intellect may be
active in its ideali.-m eoncet·uing spi•·itual thingR. yet, hecanse
the body aud soul are in a pu!!itiou to de!!i1·e the sensuous, ' Discrimination
will gather that quality to the individual, actually
rejeeting the spi1·itual.
The illustration whieb we have used of the seed planted in
the g•·ouud expresses. this thought m011t perfectly. Two seeds
lie sille by Ride, tonching each other, covered hy the same earth,
watered by the same water, wa•·med by the same stm; yet one
gathers the elenwnts of sweetness, the other oi hittet·ness. This
is hecause of the inherent qualities of the st•etl. You may be
t!omparetl to that sPed. The inherent qualitie11 :ne p•·nduced
and perpetu:~ted in you by the kind of thought!!, sympathies,
and desires in which you iudulge,-to generalize. hy love and
hate. Ynu have powet· to ultimate within yourself a love of the
highest sviritual, of Und; Rod, if ~· ou llO this pe•·~~ up into the sphet·e of intellectuality
and he an in,;pit·ational speak1w, saying gt·eat things, of
which he himself kllOW!l nothing. The11e, of com·se, are extreme
,.a~es; hut elwh itulividual, f1·um the lowe!lt to the highest, in
whate\'et· spl•ere he may be, is eondueting the Kame process.
Thwugh di1·(•cting his love'! and Kympnthies, and thus also
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