Considering thus the immense power and potency of the human word,
we may perhaps dimly apprehend the potential magnitude of the Word of God, the Creative
Fiat, when as a mighty dynamic force it first reverberated through space and commenced to
form primordial matter into worlds, as sound from a violin bow moulds sand into geometrical
figures. Moreover, the Word of God
still sounds[pg 112]to sustain the marching orbs and impel them onwards in their circle paths,
the Creative Word continues to produce forms of gradually increasing efficiency, as media
expressing life and consciousness. The harmonious enunciation of consecutive syllables in
the Divine Creative Word mark successive stages in evolution of the world and man. When the
last syllable has been spoken and the complete word has sounded, we shall have reached
perfection as human beings. Then Time will be at an end, and with the last vibration of the
Word of God, the worlds will be resolved into their original elements. Our life will then be
“hid with Christ in God,” till the Cosmic Night:—Chaos,—is
over, and we wake to do “greater things” in a “new heaven and a new earth.”
According to the general idea Chaos and Cosmos are superlative
antitheses of each other. Chaos being regarded as a past condition of confusion and disorder
which has long since been entirely superseded by cosmic order which now prevails.
As a matter of fact, Chaos is the seed-ground of Cosmos, the
basis of all progress, for thence come all IDEAS which later materialize[pg 113]as Railways, Steamboats, Telephones, etc.
We speak of “thoughts as being conceived
by the mind,” but as both father and mother are necessary in the generation of a
child, so also there must be both idea and mind before a thought can be conceived. As semen germinated in the
positive male organ is projected into the negative uterus at conception, so ideas are
generated by a positive Human Ego in the spirit-substance of the Region of abstract Thought.
This idea is projected upon the receptive mind, and a conception takes place. Then, as the
spermatozoic nucleus draws upon the maternal body for material to shape a body appropriate
to its individual expression, so does each idea clothe itself in a peculiar form of
mindstuff. It is then a thought, as visible to the inner vision of composite man, as a child
is to its parent.
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