What sets us apart from the animals is our thoughts, I think. I have always believed this, but there is a missing piece. What good does it do us or any other creature to have thoughts without being able to share them? A thought that cannot be expressed (if desired) is a closed circuit. The voltage may circulate perfectly when applied, and that certainly indicates safety, but that’s now how life works. Life is governed by the Law of Growth, and no man may escape it on any plane. But something more was needed for the separation of man from the animals.
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And then came the Word.
The thought—ethereal, invisible, weightless—becomes clothed. Now the power that was once in the closed
circuit receives a garment that wraps around it and creates a form, still
ethereal but with a measurable existence.
Words are the clothing of thoughts.
They define and explain and express thoughts. With the word, the closed circuit is
broken. What existed on a spiritual
plane only now arrives on the physical plane, although its nature is still
transient.
The next layer added is sound. And now the thought has motion through the
word, which sails on the waves of sound.
It can travel on these waves, which we cannot see, but make no mistake
that they are there and very real. The waves
carry the now clothed thought. This new
added dimension can garner attention from others, and with sound the thought
can travel from one mind to another. The
more minds the thought can reach, the more places on the spiritual plane it can
inhabit simultaneously. Never believe
that something cannot be in more than one place at the same time. The energy I’m talking about is not limited
by the physical plane.
Yet another layer is added, that of the word being
written. Now the thought has become
concrete. It has solid form that exists
on paper or screen or rock, etc. The
once invisible thing of which only one mind could conceive now has physical
form. Now it can travel over great
distances—across the globe electronically or carried in the pocket of a
traveler. We now have the first true solidity—from
nothing, something. Now more minds can
be reached, and the spiritual plane of the thought grows exponentially. The more minds that contain the thought, the
more powerful it becomes.
And finally, if it was the original goal of the thought
in the first place, the written and spoken word takes a further concrete
form. The idea, the description, the
discussion is fashioned and takes on a physical existence of its own,
subject completely now to the physical plane.
There is not one thing in the world of man—not one thing—that exists which was not first a thought in the mind
of someone. Whether it is a tool or an article
of clothing or a building or a car, it first had its origin in the invisible
unmanifest. Everything first had to be
conceived in a realm completely separate from the physical world.
It is in this way that the origin of everything first
occurs on a nonphysical (spiritual, if you will) plane. Without a spiritual beginning, there can be
no physical. This, then, shows the
importance of the Word—and this astronomical importance cannot be overstated. It is the Word and man’s ability to harness
it that transforms man from an animal into a Creator with abilities that mimic
his own Creator but on a lower level, the difference being one of degree only.
It is how the unmanifest becomes manifest. That man himself was at one point just a
thought in the mind of the Great Alchemist should be evident. There is nothing in the whole of creation
that was not first a thought. Out of
nothing, something--on Earth as it is in heaven.
