to
fruitage, and the expression is the important
part of the soul's growth.
Evolution
is the result of the development of ideas
in mind. What we are is the result of
the evolution of our consciousness, and
that consciousness is the result of seed
ideas sown in our mind. When Froebel,
the great teacher of children, began his
primary school, he thought a long time
before he gave it a name. One day the
name came to him, "a children's
garden"; so he called his school
a "kindergarten." Froebel
may not have seen the connection, but
in naming his system of educating the
children of men, he was true to the plan
given in Genesis 2:8. Humanity is the
garden of God, of which the soil is the
omnipresent thought substance.
Jesus
says that the seed is the word; He gives
illustrations of the various places in
which the seed is sown, and the results
of the sowing. The seed, or Word of God,
is sown in the minds of men; these seed
ideas go through many changes, and they
bring forth a harvest according to the
capacity of the receiving soil. If you
will to do the will of God, the exercise
of your will in God-Mind strengthens your
will power. If you have faith in things
invisible, the faith seed is growing in
your mind and your faith will be increased.
Every word or idea in Divine Mind is sown
by man in his mind, and is then brought
forth--according to man's receptivity. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap." So all
the faculties that exist in Divine Mind
(the twelve pillars of the temple of God)
are in this way
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