Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

444 ToE EvimLA~TING CovENANT. [April
people are at prt>sent ignoring the covenant, and are still obeying
the word of God by Ezekiel (xx. 39), "Go ye, serve ye
every one his idols." (Uead Ezek. xx. 33-44.) Thus God
recognizes, that service rendered up to the present time by his
people, in caring for themselves and for their children after
them, is the serving of idol~ and bowing down to them.
Another thought is embodied in the comnumd, •• Thou shalt
not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything
that is in the heaven above." God has been likened by
hiK people to an ideal man like thcmBPl veR, with hand11, eyes,
earB, etc., and they have Keated him •• beyond the bunndll of
time and space." They have attributed that man with puBions
and weaknesses Rimilar to their uwn ; that is, with anger, love
of praise, hate, revenge. jealousy,-in fact, with thP. whol~ catalogue
of human emotions. While engaged in the work of
creating organisms, images.-the generation of their kind, -
they cannot even think of God as-a formles11 Spirit.
Generation, the work of creation, is the formation of im~c:res,
and their materialization into phyRical structure: each structure,
the form of its specific use in the material world. As
long as the life currents generated in the human organism are
engaged in performing this wot·k, it will so thoroughly pos~ss
all the mental action, that the man will be utterly incapable of
even thinking of Him who is "the fullness that filleth all in
all." God created the world by the thought-forming proces.~, feet, eyes, ears,-the outline of
the man,-but it is in man's capacity to form thoughts and
carry forw!Lrd the work of creation un1ler the dominion of
those thoughts.
While be pos11esses the organs for thou~ht formation, yP.t the
thoughts themselves possess man : and generation aft.er generation,
he is carried on as an instrument through which the creative
energies are working out the divine purpose. If his thought
should deviate in the least particular from the image-formin~
process, his power to create would cease within him. It is well
known that a man whose thought is all ahsorhed in some particular
sphere of action will produce a obild imbued with that
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