Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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the other. But if he should say, "I will go forward,"
the urge in the thought to return is nullified, and the
first thought is free to act and impel him to finish his
journey. So we say that life, formed into thought, thus
becoming mind, has in it the power of the thinker urging
it to manifest itself. So we say of the acorn, which is
the seed, or reproductive substance of the oak, it is a
word or embodied thought of the Creator, formed of the
Creator's life, and has in ita portion of the Creator's
will to cause it to become according to the idea embodied.
Thus we perceive a law operative thruout all nature-that
in the seed, the reproductive substance, of every living
thing, there is a power urging and enabling it to manifest
the word, thought, or idea embodied by it; and this idea
is the Creator's purpose concerning it.
The Creator's thought concerning all vegetable life was
exprest in the words, "And God said, Let the earth bring
forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon
the earth: and it was so." And his thought concerning
animal life was exprest in the words: "And God said,
Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his
kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth
after his kind: and it was so."
Thus we perceive that the Creator's
fiat concerning the
vegetable and the animal creation was that they should
bring forth after their kind. This was the one thought
that was placed in their reproductive substance. Hence
we say that under proper conditions they could do this.
and they could do nothing else-it is their destiny. An
oak tree can never become more than an oak tree reproducing
itself. A horse can never become more than a
horse, producing horses.
Because the camal man is an animal, the same law of
reproduction was given to him and was exprest in the