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Dynamics for Living
Creation
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The Key
On every hand men are earnestly seeking to know about God,
and the origin of both the universe and themselves. They
have probed with more or less success nearly every secret
of nature, but of the origin of life they know
comparatively nothing. A right understanding of Divine Mind
is the one and only logical key. When man clearly discerns
the science of Mind, he will solve easily all the mysteries
of creation. To understand the creation of the universe by
God, we must know something of the character of God.
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Holy Trinity
The Holy Trinity is known as the Father, the Son, and Holy
Spirit. Metaphysically, we understand the Trinity to refer
to mind, idea, and expression, or thinker, thought, and
action. These three are one fundamental Mind in its three
creative aspects.
Father
Father is first in the Trinity. Father is Being in the
absolute, the unlimited, the unrelated. He is the Source,
Origin, Essence, Root, Principle, Law, Spirit, All-Good,
Creator of all. Father is the name of the all-encompassing
Mind, everywhere present, forever accessible. The universal
Principle of Being (Elohim God) designed all creation.
Elohim is God in His capacity as creative power. Create
means ideate. Elohim creates the spiritual idea which is
afterward made manifest. God created not the earth as it
appears but that which produced the earth.
Son
The second in the Trinity is the Son. It is called Jehovah
{Lord} in the Old Testament and Christ in the New
Testament. The Son of God is the fullness of the
perfect-man idea in Divine Mind. He is the man that God
created in His image. The Son is Principle revealed in a
creative plan. He is that which
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proceeds from, is begotten of the Father, like Him in
nature, and essentially all that the Father is. The Son
ever exists in God. Father and Son are one and are
omnipresent in the universe.
Christ
Christ is the one and only complete ideal man in the mind
of the everywhere present God, the "only Son" of God. He is
the divine-idea man. He is all divine ideas, such as
intelligence, life, love, substance, and so forth. In the
architect's mind there may be one masterpiece, but that
masterpiece is the sum of all the beautiful ideas that have
come to his mind. Christ is the cosmic or Grand Man of the
universe. Christ is the name of the all-loving Mind.
The Word
The Son is also called the Logos, the Word, the anointed
One, and the I AM. He is the living Word. The Logos is the
Word of God; the divine archetype ideas that contains all
ideas. This supreme idea is the creative power formulated
by universal Principle. The law of the Logos is the law of
divine creation. It produces the order and harmony of
perfect thought. Law puts first things first. It is a rule
of action. An understanding of the Logos reveals to us the
law under
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which all things are brought forth, the law of mind action.
Divine Mind creates by thought, through ideas.
I Am
The Son is the I AM identity of Being. I AM is eternal,
without beginning or ending: the true spiritual man whom
God made. Its home is in the realm of God ideals.
Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is just what the name implies, the whole
Spirit of God in action. It is God's word in movement: the
working, moving, breathing, brooding Spirit. Holy Spirit is
the all-active manifestation. It is the executive power of
both Father and Son, carrying out the creative plan. The
Holy Spirit is the law of God in action; in that action He
appears as having individuality. It is the personality of
Being. It is neither the all of Being nor the fullness of
Christ, but is an emanation, or breath, sent forth to do a
definite work. Creation is carried forward through the
activity of the Holy Spirit.
Creative Process
Creation is the original plan of an idea in Divine Mind. In
the creative process Divine Mind ideates itself. God
creates and moves creation
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through the power of Mind, through His idea or word, the
universal creative vehicle. The vehicles of Mind are
thoughts (ideas). God is thinking the universe into
manifestation right now. Creation takes place through the
operation of the Logos. The creations of the Logos are
always spiritual, permanent, and incorruptible. The
creative processes of Mind are continuously operative;
creation is going on all the time, but the original plan,
the design of Divine Mind, is finished. The processes of
Mind enter into all creations. God is eternally in His
creation and never separate from it. Wherever there is
evidence of creative action, there God is. His avenues of
expression run in every direction.
Creative Law
The order of creation is from the formless to the formed,
from the invisible to the visible. This goes on perpetually
and there is never a beginning or an ending to the process.
The law of divine creation is perfect order and harmony.
God cannot create without law. God is the Mind force
carrying forward creation under law. First is Mind; then
the idea Mind; then the materialization of the idea. Apart
from Mind nothing can be done. Creative intelligence
forever up-builds God's universe.
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Involution and Evolution
All of God's works are created in Mind as perfect ideas. He
creates the ideas that form the things. The starting point
of every form is an idea. This is involution. Then the
ideas are made into form and shape. This is evolution.
Evolution is the working out in manifestation of what Mind
has involved. Whatever Mind commands to be brought forth
will be brought forth by and through the law of evolution
inherent in Being. This applies to the great and the small.
In Mind there is but one.
Ideation
God-Mind expresses His ideas perfectly, so that there is no
occasion for them to change. He images His ideas definitely
and in every detail. Divine idealism is God's standard of
perfection. The ideal is continually pouring itself into
its creation and lifting it high and yet higher. Divine
motherhood is the brooding, nourishing element of Divine
Mind in which spiritual ideals are brought to fruition. The
idea is the directing and controlling power. It precedes
the fulfillment.
Ideation Formed
Ideas are productive and bring forth after their kind.
Every idea has a specific function to perform. Every idea
makes a structure after its own
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image and likeness, and all such ideas and structures are
grouped and associated according to their offices. All
things rest on ideas. The idea back of the flower is
beauty. The idea back of music is harmony. The idea back of
day is light or the dispensation of intelligence.
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