Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

222 THE SEVEN CREATIVE PRINCIPLES. [November.
i~telligetitly working law;· and when we begin to study the
mechanism of the universe in any department, we are studying
the order of the Divine, or Creative Mind.
· We make use of the term mechanism, because it is the law
of order that builds the growing plant, the living creature, the·
IOcomotiTe upon the railroad, down to the simplest instrument
of agriculture; and if the mechanical inventor or the literary
thinker or the scientific investigator wishes to have the grasp
and scope of mind to become truly a master in his sphere of
action, he must be wise enough to admit his ignorance in eVf~ry
thing but that which has been proved to his own mind absolutely
beyond question. He should study the law, the order ( mt>chaniam
], and the influences or effects of the heavenly bodies in
relation to the earth, and should endeavor to place his body as
well as his mind in · perfect harmony· with the law of the
universe.
1 n order to do this, he (or she) will soon disco-ver, by carefUlly
observing the subtle influence of the heavens upon his
own bod.v and mind, that it is necessary to live the regenerate
life. When this is done, the knowlt>dge of the inflnence of the
heavem1 will be inct·eased daily; and that influence will place
hiB mental action in harmony with the Universal Mind. Then
the primal· force will fill the body and mind with power, with dis-·
cdmination. and will give the individual the capacity to discern
between truth anti error,-to cli~cern between divine order and
law, and the mi!!apprehension of the human intt!llect; and
brain or mincl powers ha.vin~ thuB been brought into 01·der,
he will be llnabled, · without the lea>~t obstruction, to inspire,
drink in. the knowltltlge of the univer11e. The need for
U!le will be the only line limiting thtl c~apacity of such au inteUect.
The ordet·ly mind is the mincl that possesses not only knowledge,
but wi11dom; not only an aggregation of fact.q in relation
to things that are, but the ability to discern the interworking.
the interbltltuling, of those facts in the construction of
t'lseful eltlmentil atul thing11. Thull the di11tinction hetween
knowledge and wi11dom i11 mafle plain. '\Vi11dom being the dillcrete
nse of knowladge, it is the ultimate thereof; for it will be
readily discerned by such a mind that, hy metms of thi11 wonderful
meehanism. thi11 ot·(ltlr, of the universe. a definiw object is
to be accompli~hetl; ·:mel the discernment of l:lw-which is
Digitized by Coogle