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will (the Iliaster divides itself). He holds fast to the 

 thought, and expresses it in the Word, in which is con- 

 tained the creative and conservative power, and His 

 thought becomes corporified, bringing into existence 

 worlds and beings, which form, so to say, the visible 

 body of the invisible God. Thus were the worlds formed 

 in the beginning by the thought of God acting in the 

 Macrocosm (the Universal Mind), and in the same 

 manner are forms created in the individual sphere of 

 the mind of man. If we hold on to a thought we create 

 a form in our inner world, and we might render it objec- 

 tive and material if we knew our own creative power. 

 A good thought produces a good, and an evil thought 

 an evil form, and they grow as they are nourished by 

 thought or " imagination." 



Generation 



All beings are the product of the creative power of the 

 imagination.-^ This imagination may proceed (i) from 

 Nature, (2) from man, (3) from God. 



There are consequently three modes in which men may 

 come into existence : — 



I. Natural men, the result of sexual intercourse 

 between men and women. The imagination of the 

 parents creates the sperm ; the matrix furnishes the 

 conditions for its development. "They are born of 

 flesh, and their destiny is to serve as vehicles for the 

 Spirit " (St. John iii. 6)} 



from the unmanifested Absolute by the power of its own will, and being 

 identical with the former. The Greeks called it Zeus (Power), Minerva 

 (Wisdom), and Apollo (Beauty) ; the Germans, Wodan (the Supreme 

 Cause), Thor (Power), and Freia (Beauty). Jehovah and Allah are trini- 

 ties of Will, Knowledge, and Power ; and even the Materialist believes 

 in Causation, Matter, and Energy. 



^ There are three kinds of imagination : passive imagination, active 

 thought, creative thought. 



^ There are three kinds of birth : the birth of the flesh, of the soul, and 

 of the spirit ; and each birth has three stages : generation, germination, 



