Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

202 Goo's R~;YEAI.ED V\~n.L . [November
question of God's will concerning man expressed in the words,
"Let us make man after our likeness." Few, if any, can say
"I am like God," which shows that that likeness is not yet
attained, and, consequt-ntly, that the work of evolution, which
the above quotation explains, is not yet finished ; for it is evident
tha.t evolution is the method by which the creative purpo!!e
is being reached. It appears also that the incidents and
the accidents of life can be made a means of hindering or
hastening the ultimation of evolutionary processes, even as a
child at school may hinder or help his education. It is for this
reason, apparently, that the will of God concerning man has
been revf'aled, which proves that the Creative Mind is solicit.
ous that man make no unnecessary delay' in attaining the ultimate
of his creation.
In glancing cursorily through the book, we find one thought
most prominent,-that of gathering together a body of people
who should serve God faithfully, and that in that bocly the
divine will should be accomplished more fully than is possible
in the body of hurullnity at large; that, in fact, they shou},l be
a. nucleus which should grow by drawing from the rest of hu.
manity tho!46 who were able and willing to