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The Fifth Lesson: The One and the Many.789
is more real and durable than anything that man can create—in fact, man can
“create” nothing, for all the hard and real material he uses in his “creations,”
such as steel, diamonds, granite, are but some of the minor Forms, “thought”
into being by the Absolute.
And also remember this, that the Absolute cannot “think” of anything,
without putting Itself in that thing, as its Essence. Just as a man’s Mental
Images are not only in his mind, but his mind is in them, also.
Why, you doubting and timorous ones, does not even the finite “thinking”
of Man manifest itself in physical and material changes of form and shape?—
does not a man’s every thought actually “create” physical forms and shapes,
in his brain-cells and physical tissue? You who are reading these words—
yea, while you are reading these words—are “creating” changes of form and
shape in your brain-cells, and physical organism. Your mind is constantly
at work, also, in building up your physical body, along the lines of the
Instinctive Mind (see previous series of lessons)—you are mentally creating
in a miniature universe, every moment of your life. And yet, the idea of
the Absolute “creating” a Universe by pure Thought, in Its own Mind, and
thereafter causing the work of the Universe to proceed according to Law,
by simply “Willing” it so, causes you to wonder, and perhaps to doubt.
O, ye of little faith, you would deny to the Absolute even the power you
possess yourself. You plan things in your mind every day, and then proceed
to cause them to appear in material manifestation, and yet you doubt the
ability of the Absolute to do likewise. Why even the poets, or writers of
fiction, create characters in their minds—and these seem so real, that even
you imagine them to be actual entities, and you weep over their pains,
and smile at their joys—and yet all this is on the finite plane. Why, even
the “imaginations” of your petty finite, undeveloped minds, have sufficient
power to make your physical bodies sick, or well, or even to cause you
to “die,” from some imagined ailment. And yet you doubt the power of
the Absolute, to “think” things into being! You tiny students in the great