Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] THOUGHT. 71
tion, that, after being sent f01·th upon its mission, it will most
accurately perform the purpose and desires of him who imaged
and willed it into being.
Man was created in. the likeness of God; and it is within his
power, if he is truly regenerated, to image forth a thought endowed
with the capacity to work out the desires of the mind.
It is this power of mind that constitutes the likeness between
man and his Cr·eator; for it was by and through the working of
this law of mind that the wor-ld,-yea, the universe, was created.
Our constant aim should be to gain control of the desires and
feelings, which are the parents of thought. Thoughts are
cr·eated from the life stored in the body; and such is the
marvelous power contained in the life, that each thought imme1liately
assumes the image of the principle which it represents.
and, in obedience to the mandate of the will, goes forth
upon i tli 111 ission.
}[an in his undeveloped state lives constantly in a condition of
chaotic aetivity. which scatters his forces, benumbs his finer
sensibilities, and prevents him from comprehending the wonderful
pos11ibilities of spiritual unfnlmanate, in