Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

538 CcnnuttsJNGS WITH NATUttE. L .June
found, stanclR forth aR a cli>~tinct w•••·cl in the language of Cl'f'&­
tion,-the language hy meanR of which the Infinite Mincl
finds expresRiun.
And through the Wurcl, then, thron~h theRe thllnght formR,
"everything waR tlone which h>\R been done." It wa.-. this truth
tnat had crowned the tlistant hilltop with a g-ulcltm glory. [
had seen the thought emanation~. the life ~uh,.tances of the
sun, the great central woa·cl of the Solar system, a.-. they p•mretl
upon surrounding natua·t', anol projecteol into eve•·y filll'e uf her
being the formulative thought,-the thnnght nf the pm·i>c•>~e uf
her life. For dayR, only hea· lnve life h:ul heen awake. anol she
had been drawing the cnra-ent>~ of the eli vine life. •• the Jml'ttma."
the breath. into her own life llente1'8, hut the will of fol'llllllation
and of execution conlol onlv come thrnngh the eli vine worcl.
In the fonntainH of the divine life tmhstanee re>~icle all
qualities, and it is the function nf nrganizeol life to inhre:lthe
these eternal eRsence~. in order to give them furm and pnrp·•~.
But e~·h organi11m inspire11 the qualities allie•l to the 11lane
upoti which it stanclll in the scale of unfohlment. It can tmwh
nothing higher, beca.n>~e it can clonceive of nothing hi~hea·: it."
ideald are burn of the cnra·ents uf itH own life. Th'"'•·dm·e in
all the nniver~ there wnnlol he no gro1wth. n•• pn>~-.ihilit.y of any
living thing ascen•ling iu the •mlet· of life, wet·e there not Kllllle
la.w or principle active h.v which the highea· n•·g.mi>~m projeds
into the lower it.'4 own life ""h"tance, in nthe•· wnrolll. it.'4 own
thought emanation,., thnR qua.lita.ting the life 1mrrent" nf the
lower nature; and thi>~ la.w whio•h makes evolution. the purpn!le
of God in creation. pc•H~ihle, we know in itR manifel4tatiou 1\9
the principle of lnve.
Love, in the senRe in which the ~laster nst>cl the term. i"
dual in itR uatnre,-negative. receptive. self-appropriating, to
the highe1·; and po!litive to. projecting it..'4 own life emanations
towaa·ds the lower. It i~ significant in this counectinu, that,
th1·oughout the NP.w Te11tament. the word rencie1·eol in the
English Ver!lou as "love" i11 the G'eek .. agapao," sometimes
also translated'" charit.v," and meaning hmtherly lovt'-. a
love of service, charity. When Jesu!l cummandecl 11!1 to love
God, and used this worcl. he expresRed the two-folol n-:Lture of
love: he taught us that love which is the pet·fect expre!lsion of
the two g1·e:1t fiii'Cf>S uf t.hc> lllli\'el'>ll', the m:tJe 1\1111 the fl'maJe,
-that foa·t·t~ whieh clraw~ to it!l own c·entea·. ;m.l which t~houltl
o;9;,;zed by Coogle