THOUGHT AND FORM Question—Upon what do thoughts act to produce form?

ANSWER—Upon the Universal Subjectivity, the Creative Medium. Form is an effect. The sequence of cause and effect is first pure intelligence, next an inner movement of pure intelligence by idea, then the movement of idea upon substance, next the passing of substance into form. In this sequence the only self-conscious movement is at the beginning, everything else is automatic, everything else is an effect. Even the idea is an effect of the intelligence which creates it. The form is a result of this idea. The starting point of all creation is in pure intelligence.

THOUGHT IS CREATIVE Question—Explain why thought has creative power.

ANSWER—Thought has creative power because it is its nature to have it. It is impossible to decide why this is so. All that we can explain is how it works, insofar as our present knowledge enables us to understand h0w it works.

IS GOD PERSONAL?
Question—Does the metaphysician believe in a personal God?

ANSWER—He believes that God is the Life Principle through which man is identified as an intelligent self-choosing entity; that the mind in man is the Mind of God, since in unity there must and can be but the ONE MIND. The particular current of this One Mind which man uses habitually to serve his own personal needs makes this Divine Mind or Intelligence very personal to him, as according to his choice and use, are his experiences. God, or Life Principle, therefore, is very personal to the individual. There comes to him a deep sense of inner communion, a spontaneous sense of irresistible union. (page 6) The metaphysician, therefore, sees and FEELS with clarity the truth about God and man.

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