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| publications = [[Lucifer/Vol2|''Lucifer'', vol. 2]], no. 12, August 1888, pp. 471-472 | | publications = [[Lucifer/Vol2|''Lucifer'', vol. 2]], no. 12, August 1888, pp. 471-472 | ||
| read links = [[Lucifer/Vol2/Text|Electronic journal edition in Teopedia]] | | read links = [[Lucifer/Vol2/Text|Electronic journal edition in Teopedia]] | ||
| download links = [https://opusmagnum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/lucifer_v2.pdf Original volume (PDF)] | | download links = [https://opusmagnum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/lucifer_v2.pdf Original volume (PDF)] | ||
| title footnote = Read before Ramayana Theosophical Society, Chicago, Ill., June 24th, 1888, by Mrs. M. M. Phelon, <span style="font-variant:small-caps">f.t.s.</span> | |||
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From a manuscript, so old no man knows when it was written, commencing where it treats of “The Beginning,” we read the following: – | From a manuscript, so old no man knows when it was written, commencing where it treats of “The Beginning,” we read the following: – | ||
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The Creative Thought, acting from the desire for manifestation, clears, and steadies itself within the circumference that is boundless. Within is the centre. Thought reaches from the centre to the circumference. As man’s thought clears itself; as his mentality steadies, after long-continued strain, and the thing which was hidden or doubtful seems lighted by the clearness of his perception, so the Creative Thought of Infinite Power, acting in the same manner, produces light as the very-first outward sign of manifestation. As a man awaking from sleep becomes settled in mentality, so the light of Creative Thought from | The Creative Thought, acting from the desire for manifestation, clears, and steadies itself within the circumference that is boundless. Within is the centre. Thought reaches from the centre to the circumference. As man’s thought clears itself; as his mentality steadies, after long-continued strain, and the thing which was hidden or doubtful seems lighted by the clearness of his perception, so the Creative Thought of Infinite Power, acting in the same manner, produces light as the very-first outward sign of manifestation. As a man awaking from sleep becomes settled in mentality, so the light of Creative Thought from | ||
{{Page aside|472}} | {{Page aside in Lucifer|v=2|n=12|p=472}} | ||
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">That</span>, reservoir of all thought,<ref name="v2-p472-n1">In Indian philosophy this absolute Deity is always referred to as “<span style="font-variant:small-caps">That</span>” (<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Tad</span>) and “It.” It is “the reservoir of all thought” because it is ''absolute'' thought; which having no relation to the finite and the conditioned, cannot be premised as something individual or separate from the universal mind, and minds. It is the causeless cause of every manifesting intellection, the eternal Source of <span style="font-variant:small-caps">all</span>. – [<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Ed.</span>]</ref> breaks upon the darkness, multiplying the memories of that which was by the deductions of that which may be the resultant or outcome of the long sleep or withdrawal of Brahmâ. | <span style="font-variant:small-caps">That</span>, reservoir of all thought,<ref name="v2-p472-n1">In Indian philosophy this absolute Deity is always referred to as “<span style="font-variant:small-caps">That</span>” (<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Tad</span>) and “It.” It is “the reservoir of all thought” because it is ''absolute'' thought; which having no relation to the finite and the conditioned, cannot be premised as something individual or separate from the universal mind, and minds. It is the causeless cause of every manifesting intellection, the eternal Source of <span style="font-variant:small-caps">all</span>. – [<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Ed.</span>]</ref> breaks upon the darkness, multiplying the memories of that which was by the deductions of that which may be the resultant or outcome of the long sleep or withdrawal of Brahmâ. | ||