Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

340 CHEATIOX. [February
became mot·e dense, until at last they reflected light .• and the
result was a nebular world.
Moses refers to the nebular wor),), when he says, "Atul God
saw tbe light, that it wa.q good.'" Genesis l. 4. Bear iu mind
that nothing is said ahont :t.ny living ct·eature Reeing the light.
Rave its Creator. Having assume1l form, the life constituting
the divine thought began to manifest as indi,•iclna.l entities.
It i11 an absolute law, that an organism, whether gTeat or Rmall.
that haR once been impregnated with the Ruhtle pt·inciple of
life, will, when proper conditions exist, immediately begin to
produce living entitie11, compo.semple. A part t·t>main•, awl, as the fifth
principle (Fet·ment;\tion) begins tl) mauife~t. the life principle
becomes. as it were, freecl, and the tl ilfereut at• tilts t. that it continues to gt·nw in ttll·
derstanding ami ability to express the mitul from which it
came, until. after countless ages have pasJo~ed, man will be the
result. tluch are the workings of evolntion to-1la_y. atul the ~ant~•
law applietl in the wodd millions of years ag••: for God's ·
laws do not change: He is the same y~sterday. to-day, :lntl
forevet·.
The 11pirit coutaint-tl in the thought of Gotl, bec•amP. living,
conscious entities, dothed with matel'ial element!!. These enti.
ties lived theit· allottecl time, gaining necessary expet·it•nce.
an1l then forRonk their earthly tahei'Oade. After the,.e spiritual
entities quitted their temporary habitation of clay,-in order to
take on inot·e highl.v clevelope•l phyllieal o•·gani~ms in which to
t-xpress the a