Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

50 THE SEVEN CREATIVE PRINCIPLES. [August
everlasting Father-Mother,-a thought conceived in love, born
of divine spirit life, formed by infinite intelligence, animated
by the spirit of mother love, the Eternal Virgin, and endowed
with the will and formative principle of the Everlasting
Father,-mind.
While this thought is beyond the comprehension of the human
intellect, yet it is not beyond the understanding of tl1e
regenerate and spiritualized soul uf man. But we must bear
in mind that we are writing for the intellect of the physical,
sentient man; the1·efore we turn our attention to accepted
authority, in ordllr to obtain means of exprt-ssiug our thought
in connection with this 'V ord.
A thought expressed partakes of all the life and mind qualities
of the thinker. .John !laid, "lu the beginning was the
Word." In obedience to his reference, we turn to the act•mmt
of the beginning of all things, and we find in connection with
the account of creation the wortls," Let us make man in our
image and like us." The materiali!ltic mind infers that this
necessarily means the physical fonn,-lwad, hands, trunk,
limbs, and feet; but Go1l in the ten t~ommatHlments forhacle
man thn!l to make an image of him who iR ahove :lll fol"m, and
is, therefore, formless. Yet the Fm·mlt>ss produces all form
for the ptu·po!le of serving the uses for whieh it was m:we: antl
when any form ceases to express those w1es, it dwindles away
and ceases to be; but the Formless, by the power of mind,
causes forms to SJWing f01-th, se1•ve their purpose, and 1·eturn
whence they came. This causing power is the image of God
in which man was made.
Who t~an tell ns scientifically how we think, form ideas,
imbue them with caw~ative (p!!y