THE THING ITSELF The Universal
Spirit
is the great Causative Power
of the universe. The Word, or
thought, of God eternally initiates
the Divine Creative Process. In
this process, Law is continuously
set in motion to create, from the
Unformed Substance, Innumerable forms which follow the
thought-patterns of Spirit.
The
Word of God means the Power
of God to bring Itself into form. The
Law (the Creative Medium) is subjective to the Spirit and must create
all physical manifestation in exact
accordance with the initiating
Cause-just as the soil must produce a tomato plant from a tomato
seed and a carrot from a carrot seed.
Remember:
All three of these modes of being (Spirit, Law, and form) are
within the One-God moving within Itself to bring forth form,
which is
one of the three aspects of God.
We shall assume that neither Law, nor the Stuff from which form comes, has conscious intelligence, but must because of their nature be formed by
the Word. This simplifies the whole matter and enables us to see that in the entire Universe, One Power alone really acts -- the Power of the Word of Spirit, God, or Universal Conscious Intelligence."
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