Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] THE SEVEN CREATIVE PRINCIPLES, 225
tions, delights, uses, of this material world, and of the world
now invisible to man.
No wonderful feat is performed in bringing man to this
state: God created man from his own divine substance, and it
is his normal condition to be like his·Father. It is perversion
that has brought the race to its present abnorma'I state, and
separated it in all ita consciousness and being from ita God
and Creator. But God's laws are absolute, and all things, man
included, perforce serve his will. While he chooses a sense
existen .. e, he is forced into the rushing tide of creative energy,
iR rolletl on in the river of generic life, with ~11 the rest of the
animal world ; and, like them, is made to serve in the work of
taking of the crude elements of earth and transmuting them
into higher elements, and building from them other organic
forms like biR own; then to die and give place to thoRe he has
produced that they may go on with the work.
So the revolution of the riRe of the son and fall of the father
in death proceeds generation after generation, until the accumulated
results of their experiences prodnce a mind power
suffidently individualhr.ed and organized (in ordet·) to enable it
tc• awaken, look around, and behold the order of the universe.
the workings of the will and the mind of the Father. Th~n
it will involuntarily exdaim, "Om· Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done
in t>arth (in me)" ns pel'fectly ns it iR dune in the heavt!n~.
That yearuing desire nf the ROlli aml intellect combined will
soon bring the answer to the p•·ayer in revttlation aftt'r revelation
of the knowledgeM concerning the laws, haa·monies, and
uses of the mind and will uf the Father. Then steadfastly beholding
the wonders uf the Eternal, the individnal will be
gratltut1ly changed into its likene~s; for no one can stand and
look upon. think abont. and stndy the wonda·ous working of
creation without having mind and sensibilities rapidly grow
into harmony therewith and in like order.
It wu becauRe of this that the Spirit of the Lord revealed
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