Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

18.96.] THE SEVEN CREATIV-E PRINCIPLES. 223
commonly nsed as synonymous with order-will enable the individual
not only to perceive the ultimate object in the mind of
the Creator in producing this wonderful machinery, hut will
also enable him to ally himself to present laws and conditions,
which are the irresistible forces governed by the will of the
Almighty. Thus he will make of them, vehicles to carry his
own individuality onward and upward into the glories and
powers of the miud of the Creator.
This will cause him to know that his own organism is only
one of the mind organs through which the Infinite Creator, in
carrying forward the work of creation, is expressing himself;
to perceive that God, the Everlasting Father-Mother is, in him,
thinking, feeling, joying, and rejoicing over the work of his
own ereation. He will perceive the now incomprehensible
utterance that "God is nature risen up to look at himself."
One of the modern poets thus expresses it:-
"When Nature blossomed, man was her ripe fruit.
All Nature grew intelligent in man;
Her merry seasons piped upon hie lips;
Her suns shone radiant throuqh his deathless eyes ;
And all her stars gleamed through their burning rays.
Great Heaven itself is but the mind of man
Walking in light and music through the spheres;
And God Hilllllelf rep011es in the will
And works forever in the immortal mind.
The source of all sensation is His joy,
The source of consciousnet4s God's introspect,
Whereby He sees Himself divinely fair,
All-great, aU-good, all-perfect, and all-wise.
From mind, in mind, and unto mind all things
Proceed, move, tend, eventuate. The dust
Is thought discreted from the thinker's mind,
And man is thought inca-rnate. All men see,
Hear, feed upon, from God proceed as beams
From one Eternal Intellectual Sun.
Nothing but Rha,.es the impulse of His Will:
Nothing but ript>ns in His perfect Love;
Nature i11 blazing with the light of thought
And mind effulgent with Divinity;
For God alike through mind and matter wills.
Works, ultimates Himself for evermore.
Creation sprang from God's necessity.
God never woke because He never slept.
The univer;~e is ancient as Himself,
Without. beginning and without end·
Because thought ultimates itself in worlds,
Because thought had its origin in God,
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