Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] SoPL FuscTIO~. 65
These •lata ll'a•l ns, thet·efore, to the condnsion that one itnpot·tant
fundion of th£> soul is to hnild and preserve an organism
through whieh it ean t>xpress the spiritual ego, or creative
l'anse, sent forth from the Creative ~Iin•l imlme•l with the purpose
of makin;~ man in _it,; image atul likeness,-a.n image and
likeness whit·h. hy means of experience g-ained in form-building.
wonltl g-ive the soul knowle•lge of and mastery o\·er the
ereati,·e fol'l·es in allnatUJ'P, which are manifest l'xpressions of
the thought of the Divine Mintl.
\\" e feel that the simplest manner of •lepieting the beginning
of nt creative \Ym·•l, which is the
life of all material forms. The Ps!'.ence :u-ising froin the action
of spirit npon matte1· was the Ronl of the organism, a
mc.Jium fm· the PXIH't~ssiun of the cansativt• spit·it thmngh the
fonns of matte1·.
The soul is thus the passive, intelligPnt pt•itwiple aduating
the organism hy vit·tne of the ever-hicl•len impelling power of
the c'l'Pati,·e \Vcml: anti henee its fnnc~tinn is to \mild ancl preseJ'\'P.
an m·g:misu1 tl11·on~h whi•~h to gain an•l rPtain the experietwes
oi lifP. lu·ing, intlligetwf', wistlom, and pnwer, which
are tlu~ attl'i hntPs of t lw erPa ti \'e \\' orcl. Tlwrefm·e it has ever
snnght to )IPI'jlelnat.e its c~xistence, :uul ••xtl•ncl it~ domain of ex­
Jlel·ien•·P'I by g-PnPrating like organi-;ms to its own, tlms passively
••anyiug nut tlw ••reat.ive impulse tlet·ivetl hom the c~ansative
sric it within: :tilt! so it c••mtinneclnntil tlw snm of E>xperiences
in nne st>J'iPs of sintil:u· fonn-; so exteuclt:'d its emwc>pts of the
metluuls of el'l':tlivc~ Pxprt!ssion as to Puable it to bnil1l for itself
a highPI' ftH'IIl :mel mot·e pet·fed ot·gauism. This pt·ocess
has been eaJTi('(lon through the agPs. :weordiug to the divine
law of e\·olntionary growth and nufol•lnwnt. until in the present
age tlw ri flt'lled souls of this pl:uwt pel'l'ei \'e a new era of
growth an•l nnfoltlnwnt of thPit· pnWI'I' ancl wisclom.-that of the
re\'et·sal of the law of gt·ll•·t·ation of outward physic'al forms to
oigilized by Coogle