Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1897.] TilE EvERLASTING CovENANT. 445
peculiarity. EtH·ope recognizes this fact, and causes the chilclren
to occupy the position and to follow the occupation of the
parents. This power· of image-making is stronger in woman
than in man. It is a common thing to see persons with a
hirthmark; which means simply, that, dming the time of gestation,
some mmsnal circuruAtance occurred to fort!e an abnormal
im11ge upon the mind and sensitive organism of the mother.
\V e think that thus we have fully and adequately shown that
the mind of man, whilst serving in creation (generation), cannot
lay hole! upon, keep, and believe in this covenant. Neither
c!:lll he Rent,-all-pr·esent,
yet possessing perfect consciousness and
all his supt·eme attrihnt~>s in every place in the universe at the
same moment. It is a diftienlt thing to think of God as the
formless ~pir·it, everywhere cnuscious, all-knowing, all-willing-,
all-tl•inking, all-eontt·olling, ever-causing, unaffected by thn
wm·k of his hantls.
It nnly, perhaps, aid onr r·eaders in overcoming the tendenc·y
to make an image of God, to ask them to tm·n within and consider·
the overatiun nf their own miud and body, tracing out.
how the will, a fm mless, etherealized substance, commands and
c!ontmls the w01·kings of all the machinery of the physical
01·ganism. The formless will, in obedience to the deci11ions of
the numtalit.r, sends a current uf electric energy over the telegTaphit~
wilt-s uf the nei'VonR ~>ystem, and into a particular musclt>,
eausing it to cuntn\d: thus moving a finger, a hand, a foot, or a
leg, t•ausiug tlwt movement to stop. or e\·en causing the memht•r
to resiRt an ex tt-•·nal fm·t~e which would produce movement
in the organism.
Tlw auatmuist. gives a general aecmmt of the structure and
of hnw it lltO\'es. An t•nlineut seieutist said to us, "I can make
a harul or 11n arm, and I t•an t~onstrtwt mnseles so that, by mean11
uf a galv:mie battt>ry, the hand nr ann will move in variou11
cli•·et•tions." ~u douht this is true; bnt where is he who
go\'l~l"lls the elt-dl'it! batter·y within your organism'? Surely it is
not a got! in the form of a scientific man standing back ami controlling
it at will! ~~~. it is your formless self, which has producecl
a fm·m solely because it needecl it in order that it might
hantlle and use mater·ial things in a material wor·ld. ·
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