Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

A
Magazine of
ADVANCED AND PRACTICAL ESOTERIC THOUGHT.
VoL. X. 20 No.1. ·
JUNE 21 to JULY 22.
THE SEVEN CREATIVE PRINCIPLES.
FIRST PAPER.
BY H. E. BUTJ,ER.
THE NAME YAHVEH.
The number seven is usually considered a number of chance,
and in the genet·al thought it heart no more relation to creation
than any other nnmher; hut the angel, in his Revelation to John
upon the Isle of Patmos, referred to the seven spirits of God
sent forth into all the flarth. We have been taught from childbOOtl
to say th"t God i"' our Father-with the thought, however,
of his being the Creator; and the same authority which gives
us to know that he is onr Creator, aho cauRes us to believe that
he is the Creator of 11ll thingM.
When the angel spnke of the seven spirits of God, the question
naturally arises, Why seven? why not nine or twelve or any
other numhet·? Di1l unt the lieRignation of thi"' particular number
al'ise frnm the prnfunnd knowlt>1lge of one whn dwells in the
prellence of the Infinite. from th~ ability to see that there are,
as it w ....... seven ray11 of life aucl light p•·ocee11ing from the fountaioR
nf Gud'R own min•l. a111l entering into atul giving life, energy,
and conRequent actiun to all things in the physical worlcl?
ThiR would jul4tify the worcls, "::ient forth into all the earth!'
Now, if there are seven fmmtains or principles ruling the earth,
then the individual who cleal'ly understan,Js these principles,
and emhodies them in his own organism, must have reached the
highel4t ultimate pnssible for man in the physi