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the dore lectures on mental science(辻親僥讐恙)-及16何蛍
酔楯荷恬: 梓囚徒貧圭�鮗� ○ 賜 ★ 辛酔堀貧和鍬匈 梓囚徒貧議 Enter 囚辛指欺云慕朕村匈 梓囚徒貧圭�鮗� ● 辛指欺云匈競何! 泌惚云慕短嗤堋響頼���誅卒亮茂�俊彭堋響��辛聞喘貧圭 "辺茄欺厘議箝誓匂" 孔嬬 才 "紗秘慕禰" 孔嬬��
the entire absence of control by any second power that renders the
realization in external actuality of a purely mental ideal possible。 For this
reason systematic spiritual study commences with the contemplation of
the existing cosmos�察 �and we then transfer the conception of the
monogenetic power of the Spirit from the cosmos to the individual and
realize that the same Spirit is able to do the same thing in ourselves。 This
is the New Thought which in time will fulfil itself in the New Order�察�and
we thus provide new thought´conditions which enable the Spirit to carry
on its creative work from a new stand´point�察�that of our own individuality。
This attainment by the Spirit of a new starting´point is what is meant by
the esoteric doctrine of the Octave。 The Octave is the starting´point of a
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new series reduplicating the starting´point of the previous series at a
different level�察�just as does the octave note in music。 We find this principle
constantly referred to in Scripturethe completion of a prior series in the
number Seven�察 �and the starting of a new series by the number Eight�察�
which takes the same place in the second series that the number One did in
the first。 The second series comes out of the first by natural growth and
could not come into existence without it�察 �hence the First or Originating
number of the second series is the Eighth if we regard the second series as
the prolongation of the first。 Seven is the numerical correspondence of
complete manifestation because it is the combination of three and four�察�
which respectively represent the complete working of the spiritual and
material factorsinvolution and evolutionand thus together constitute the
finished whole。 Students of the Tarot will here realize the process by
which the Yod of Yod becomes the Yod of He。 It is for this reason that the
primary or cosmic creation terminates in the rest of the Seventh Day�察�for it
can proceed no further until a fresh starting´point is found�察�But when this
fresh starting´point is found in Man realizing his relation to the ;Father�察─�
we start a new series and strike the Creative Octave and therefore the
Resurrection takes place�察�not on the Sabbath or Seventh Day�察�but on the
Eighth day which then becomes the First day of the new creak five week。
The principle of the Resurrection is the realization by man of his
individualization of the Spirit and his recognition of the fact that�察�since the
Spirit is always the same Spirit�察�it becomes the Alpha of a new creation
from his own centre of being。
Now all this is necessarily an interior process taking place on the
mental plane�察�but if we realize that the creative process is always primarily
one of involution�察 �or formation in the spiritual world�察 �we shall grasp
something of the meaning of Christ as ;The Son of God;the
concentration of the Universal Spirit into a Personality on the spiritual
plane correlatively to the individuality of each one who affords the
necessary thought´conditions。 To all who apprehend it there is then
discovered in the Universal Spirit the presence of a Divine Individuality
reciprocal to that of the individual man�察 �the recognition of which is the
practical solution of all metaphysical problems regarding the emanation of
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the individual soul from the Universal Spirit and the relations arising
therefrom�察 �for it takes these matters out of the region of intellectual
speculation�察�which is never creative but only analytical�察�and transfers it to
the region of feeling and spiritual sensation which is the abode of the
creative forces。 This personal recognition of the Divine then affords us a
new basis of Affirmation�察�and we need no longer trouble to go further back
in order to analyze it�察�because we know experimentally that it is there�察�so
now we find the starting´point of the new creation ready´made for us
according to the architypal pattern in the Divine Mind itself and therefore
perfectly correctly formed。 When once this truth is clearly apprehended�察�
whether we reach it by an intellectual process or by simple intuition�察�we
can make it our starting´point and claim to have our thought permeated by
the creative power of the Spirit on this basis。
But vast as is the conception thus reached we must remember that it is
still a starting´point。 It�察�indeed�察�transcends our previous range of ideas and
so presents a culmination of the cosmic creative series which passes
beyond that series and thus brings us to number Eight or the Octave�察�but
on this very account it is the number One of a new creative series which is
personal to the individual。
Then�察 �because the Spirit is always the same�察 �we may look for a
repetition of the creative process at a higher level�察 �and�察 �as we all know�察�
that process consists first of the involution of Spirit into Substance�察 �and
consequently of the subsequent evolution of Substance into forms
continually increasing in fitness as vehicles for Spirit�此 �so now we may
look for a repetition of this universal process from its new starting´point in
the individual mind and expect a corresponding externalization in
accordance with our familiar axiom that thoughts are things。
Now it is as such an external manifestation of the Divine ideal that the
Christ of the Gospels is set before us。 I do not wish to dogmatize�察�but I
will only say that the more clearly we realize the nature of the creative
process on the spiritual side the more the current objections to the Gospel
narrative lose their force�察�and it appears to me that to deny that narrative as
a point´blank impossibility is to make a similar affirmation with regard to
the power of the Spirit in ourselves。 You cannot affirm a principle and
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deny it in the same breath
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