Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

52 THE SEVEN CREATIVE PRINCIPLES. [Augnst
on top of the closet, and there was a :make, about a yard long
but very slender.
Our inevitable conclusion, under such remarkable circumstances,
was that the ·snake was hungry, and had imbued the
mind of the mouse with the thought of bringing to him her
young; for the thought in her was all-controlling, so that she
forgot all fear, mother love, and everything else except to take
her young to that snake.
Herein was expressed that marvelous power which we st>e in
all m·eation; and especially is it manifest in the work of generation.
It is the manifestation of this in animate life that we
call sex pa!!sion; and, when it is strong in an individual, it
gives him what is known as the psychic power, which cause!l
one of the opposite sex to desire him. Again, when taken control
of by the will, it is the power which causes one mi11d to
influence another. It is this power that we are told the Iteru:d 11pirituale Word in
the interior of the inuPrmost of man's soul consdonsness: but
in the gener-ation. it is the master and governor of mind, carr·ying
it down through the seven creative pr·inciples, or·ganizing
for it a mater·ial body, anti binding it in that body as a servant
of gener·ation. 1-It>rein are fomul the myster·it!s of the
univer·se.
Those of the Esoteric stnclents who have lived the life long
enongh au1l are sufficiently refhu~1l, are enabled to see, hear, and
feel the qualities that !lur·romul om· ear·th anti fill the !!phe•·e of
our Solar· System. The n:unes of these qualitie!l have heen
brought down to 1111 fmm the time when man had not deseended
so low in matter· as not to bn able to take complete ('ogni·
zauce of the twelve oeeans of mind and life which surround our
planet, and which are called by the names designating the
twelve signs of the zndiac. These twelve oeeans radiate from
the suu to the onter·most limit of its system; and, chu·ing the
ear·th's travels around the sun, Rhe is always immersetl in one
of these oceans, as, dnr·ing the year, she passes from line to line.
Another zodiac sunon•Hls our ear·th, tilled with a still more
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