Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

72 THOUGHT. [August
is God, and that God is love. This is true ; and although this
expresses all there is in the universe, yet, when it reaches the
intellectual brain alone, it is simply sound, conveying no df!ptb
of meaning. To the man who has unfolded a spiritual understanding,
how different these things appear. He sees the wonderful
workings of the powers of life. He begins to realize
how each atom is so perfectly constt·ncted, that, when separated
from the Infinite Ocean by the desircA arising in the
mind, it immediately takes form. ThiR form is termed thought.
It expresses not only the desire, but is endowed with function
that enables it to gather from the surrounding elements and
absorb other qualities, until the aim of the creator of the
thought has been ultimated. When its use has been served,
it disintegrates and returns to the elements from which it was
originally drawn; while the central spark may, perchance, ancl
no doubt frequently does, take ou an organism of a higher
order, evolved from the experiences through which it has passed.
As ages roll on, it becomes, like its creat01·, an inhabitant
of a human soul, possessing the 11ame po~sihilities, as to
ultimate attainment, as does the gt·eatest soul on earth, expressing
in itself the marvelous and iocomprehetutible power hidden
within one infinitesimal spark of the deific life, and proving
the tt·uth that man is created in the likeness of his Maker.
Tt·ue it is that. our thoughts are our children. If we are
wise and have deveh•ped understanding, we will create forms
that in time will, when they become incorporated into our
organism, make us glodfiecl beings. On the other hand, if we
m·eate unwi!!E'ly. allowing our thoughts to be macle up of pt·inciples
antagonistic to each other, we will not only builcl deformed
animal bodies, but may also ct·eate demous, which ean, and
ft·eqnentl.v de), binJer the evolutionary prograss of the soul
toward Spirit, or God. Many of the elemental11 infesting the
borderland have been brought into being through the ignorance
of man, who, in the undeveloped state of his Ronl, et·eatt>d
forms antagonistic to the purpose and will of the Creator. The
ignot·ant creation of thought forms is one of the causes of what
is termed "evil." For forms created from the life elements
are literal entities; and, when the mind that created them is
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