Chapter IX - Creation
Human egotism
263:1
Mortals are egotists. They believe themselves to be
Mortals are egotists. They believe themselves to be
independent workers, personal authors, and even privi-
leged originators of something which Deity
would not or could not create. The creations
of mortal mind are material. Immortal spiritual man
alone represents the truth of creation.
Mortal man a mis-creator
263:7
When mortal man blends his thoughts of existence
When mortal man blends his thoughts of existence
with the spiritual and works only as God works,
he will no longer grope in the dark and cling
to earth because he has not tasted heaven.
Carnal beliefs defraud us. They make man an involun-
tary hypocrite, – producing evil when he would create
good, forming deformity when he would outline grace
and beauty, injuring those whom he would bless. He
becomes a general mis-creator, who believes he is a
semi-god. His "touch turns hope to dust, the dust we
all have trod." He might say in Bible language: "The
good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would
not, that I do."
No new creation
263:20
There can be but one creator, who has created all.
There can be but one creator, who has created all.
Whatever seems to be a new creation, is but the discovery
of some distant idea of Truth; else it is a
new multiplication or self-division of mor-
tal thought, as when some finite sense peers from its
cloister with amazement and attempts to pattern the
infinite.
263:27
The multiplication of a human and mortal sense of per-
The multiplication of a human and mortal sense of per-
sons and things is not creation. A sensual thought, like
an atom of dust thrown into the face of spiritual im-
mensity, is dense blindness instead of a scientific eternal
consciousness of creation.
Mind's true camera
263:32
The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and ma-
The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and ma-