Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

66 Sm:r. FvN~TTON. [Angn11t
t~e iaw of regeneration of inner form and function, perfecting
in themselves, of thems~lves, all form, function, use, power,
and wisdom.
When one reaches this plane of unfoldment, where he is enabled
to perceive the truth expreKsetl in the foregoing Rtatement,
he at once follow11 the promptings .of the ct·eati ve Word within
him, and takes the positive thought attitude necessary to assist
the passive mind in the wm·k of taking control, through its
special organ of action, the Solar Plex111~, of the pt·oduction, retention,
and tran11mutation of the creative life potencies. The
11onl will be "'ucces11ful in this work just in the degree to which
the outer personal self allows it to attain, hy thoroughly nnclutching
its hold on all and everything which helong11 to the
old order of generation and its habit of life.
And rigl1t here is an altogether importan·t l"'int concerning
soul funetion: As the soul has ensphert>d itself in the physical
org-.tnism, so it must continue to perform the functions of the
passive chemist, faithfully and patiently working out all that
the folly or ~~elfishness of the obj~eti ve minJ tmposes on it.'4 store
of burdens; so that. where these at:e needles•lv at":lti\·e habit, it nec­
~ssarily follows that the great w01·k of regeneration will be fatally
stifled, or so retarded in its progt·ess, that, after years of
trying. Rucc~ss ~ill be despaired of.
Now, in this connedion, onr teach~r has s:\id ( pag~s 20 and 21
Solar Biology): "When they begin to accomplish this (regeneratiou
), it shoul