Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] TnE SF.YEN CREATIYF. PRINCIPT.F.R. 259
Father. This Mother Principle gathered of the substance of
mind, ensphering it and ell-awing it nt>arer and yet nearer together,
RO that, from a nebulous mas11, her bands of love drew
tighter and tighter until a world was manifested; and, as a
neef'SRity of her exiRtence, she continues to draw the elements
and fnrniRh bocli~R fm· the hundt·ecls of millions of organic
fot·tnlf" on that hall which she has gathered Kntl ensphered.
In thiR is manifeRted the universal law of opposites: the
feminine is cent•·alizing, iudiviclualizing, and focalizing in it.'l
tendency, that i11, all the mentality of love i11 tA1ward the individual;
whilst the mentality of know)eclge, the masculine, iH
expan11ive ancl cmnpt·eht>osive of all thinga. The manife11tation
of these two forc~es in the physic~al worlcl it~ aH the clentrifngal
Knd the ful
tAt n11 without remaining uncler their dominion: for, like all
elements by whidt we at·e acqn~tiuted in natm·e,-fire, water,
stelltn, eledri..ity,-they at·e all good servamtll, hut terrible
mru~tet·R.
The old maxim," In union there is strength," i11 another way
of t>Xpt·eRsing the thou!,rht that, in gathering Hntl coher£>nC'e,
there iK 11tregth and power. If an organiz~ttinn. he it a hocly
uf men or th£'! incliviclual. focalizes, centrali1.es all itM thought or
miocl powt>r in one clireetiou, it henomeK Rtt·•mg in that particnl:,r,
hut weak in evet·y oth~r. In all that relateR to mind.
f.,calization in one·tlit·t'ction i~ the cummon tleKtt·oyer. It is 1111
at~ceptecl fact amnng Kht«lentll of hnmtm natm·e th11t the focalization
of the entire mincl npnn one thn11ght iR 1111re to produce
inKanity; yet we have Reeu that the tendency of tbi11 fourth
pt·indple, an