Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

THE SEVEN OREATIVE PRINOIPLES.
FIFTH PAPER.
BY H. E. BUTLER.
ORDER, THE. THIRD OF THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES.
Order, incomphensible and perfect, exists in the univel'fle,.
having been brought into existence and maintained by mind so
transcendently above that of man, that, in our effort to even
discern its wonderful manifestations, the strongest intellect
reels under t.:e mighty task,-reels, sickens, and falls under a
load too heavy, a problem too wonderful for us. Yet having
knowledge by which we may, as it were, grow added mind
power, we apply the means and labor on in the endeavor to
grasp the mighty problems of the universe.
The c>hild beginning the study of mathematics finds problems
in his Arithmetic whose solution seems impossible; y~t he works
with the simpler ones, making each a. step toward the grand ultimate.
Thus he advances, until, finally, the impossible bec!otnes
uot only possible, but very simple and easy to his increased
capacity. He would never have reachecl that ultimate had he
not begun with the basic principles of mathematics; and had
not those principles been in order, in harmony with the
sequence of law, the lesser problems would not have aidecl him
in comprehtmdin·g the greater; but the principle!! involved in
his first work form a part of the more advanced: 110, while he
iR learning the simpler, he is learning the component parts of
the more'·complex, until, ll.S a man, he is able· to pet·fm·m what
to the m·ditiary mind is wonderful, evt>n to the weighing aud
measuring of telescopic worlds.
\Vhen the pt·est>nt advanced state of human mental development
has wm·ked as faithfully and pet'Ristently to comprehend
the wonders of the seven creative principlt>R aR it ha." done
those of mathemat icR, it will diRcover th1lt all Rcience iR one,
~nd that ever.v fatlt in na.tlue emanates from one gt·eat general
canse. While there are in the world a great vllriet.v of chemi­
~al qnalitit>R, and a Rtill greater nnmber of qualities in ihe
t>the~ above, yet all are nncler the controlling power of the
11eveu cre"tive pt·iucipleR. the Lngn>~, the wm·cl of Q,,d that
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