Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

18~7.] CREATION. 341
When a divine atom of D~ity d~11cends into matter, it is appar
.. ntly lost in the great ocean of ever 1\(ltive life which fills
the universe: hut 11uch is nnt the case. It remains always
subject tu law, and is continually under the guidance and is
ever watl~hed ovet· by the Father, and in time, as it gains experiPnt•e
anti therefore knowledge, it begins to asc~nd, until it
m1mifeKtR on eat·th in human form, a being poKIIeRsing wi11dom
and nnderRtanding: a spiritual son, well worthy to represent
hi11 divine p1uent as a bniltler, or creator. Thn11 it was in
creatiuu or W• trld forming. ·The life of the All wa.~ nceivahle form
of urgauic life, whi•~h. being subject ttl the law of evulntiun,
g-t·atlnally ascended thrungh all the different grl\(le11 of exiKttetwe
until pt·imitive man was the t·etmlt.
The moKt highly devt>loped of primitive man, we are t~11d,
waK Adam, He stood as the father of the pre~~eut rastiuy,-the intuitiunal perioo. Althongh he
wa!J tite fatlwr uf the t·ace, cmnpat·ed with thr. intellectual giants
of the present age Adam wa11 hut a ehild. The Adaruic race, being
but rhilclt·t'n. wt>re unrtnretl and protec•ted by the divine
Mothet". whose uffs}wing they were. All nature. btwa.uAe of the
youth nf the planet, was in a vit·giu state. The .t>arth product>tl
a Mnpet·ahnnclatwe of the element.~ requit·ed to sustain these
chilclren nf nature. It WR.R nut until after "the fall" that man
was Hnmpelled to earn hiK hr"atl by the 11weat of his brow.
TheRe pt·imitive men we•·e ~hiltlten of nature in every RenAe of
the term. They livecl absolutely under the guidance of God, and
were cnntrolle•l wholly hy the mother principle, which shielded
them frnm all the evil!4 of whidt int-ellectual man appear~~ to be
the natural inlwritor. This mnther principle is the same
whether manifestetl in the fiert•est beast that lurk>~ in the clense
jungle, ancl kill~ in order tt1 protect its offsrring, or in the
mo~t highly developed femal~ organism on eat·th, who sacrifh·es
her !i~pit·itnal attainmeuts, iu tmler to provide for home and
family.
Living all the! guidance of Goo.
Gocl being a Father to them, they had no care a11 to the fntm·e:
and, having no eoneeption of the wonderful pos!lihilities of mimi
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