Lesson 11 - The Purpose of Life in Creation

In God, before the beginning of creation, are the souls of all things that are made. In other words, all ideas are eternally in Him, the Infinite Spirit or Mind, hence are prior to manifestation; and that which is with God in the beginning, or which is in Infinite Spirit or Mind prior to manifestation, God. Nature, therefore, is wholly dependent upon the presence of God, its Cause, and is but a semblance or likeness of that upon which it depends. So let your thought no longer sustain the false position that you - who are inherent in Cause, and are, therefore, prior to your thought and its manifestation - are in any way, at any time, dependent upon that which you manifest; but hold the consciousness that your manifestations are wholly dependent on you.

Truthful thought or correct thinking is God manifest, is His possibility made apparent to the individual. Spirit ever recognizes its own.

As words are symbols of ideas, so are forms symbols of ideas made apparent through thought. At this point in our lesson, the seeming is, that there are two Causes; but the truth is, truthful thought and word are two effects flowing from one Cause - Being. One eternal idea gives birth to both. When divine ideas are manifest in thought, that thought may be projected into form of words, form of feeling, form of deed. So our words may be said to be the expression of divine ideas imaged in consciousness by thinking; ideas are first and are the larger term, which includes the possibility of the word. As one idea is capable of being expressed or made apparent in myriad forms in thought, so even one perfect thought may be expressed in myriad forms of word; word of sound, word of deed, word of sensation, word of physical form. When all this has been accomplished, we have neither added to nor taken from the idea, for perfect from eternity to eternity is the idea or soul of things, that which manifests. As the principle of mathematics contains all the possibilities of the problems of mathematics, so Infinite Spirit contains all the possibilities of the ideas of Spirit that have been, are now, or will ever be manifest in creation.

All forms in nature, the planets and systems of planets, and all thereon contained, are symbols of ideas, and may be termed spoken words in their relation to eternal ideas, which termed spoken words in their relation to eternal ideas, which ever rest in their Source, Infinite Mind. The Father’s ideas constitute the language recorded in eternal life, the language of His Being. He who lives the life may read what is therein written.