manifest itself according to any conditions that we may provide for it by our own mental attitude; and therefore the only limitations to be laid upon our use of it are those arising from the Law of Love. Liberty without Love is Destruction, and Love without Liberty is Despair.
Just as in photography we need for the production of a perfect image the combined action of an accelerator and a restrainer [i.e. of the chemical reactions --- Ed.], so to produce perfect images of the Divine strength, beauty, and gladness, we require a self-projecting force which is the full liberty of Creative Power, combined with a directing and restraining force which is the tenderness of wisdom and love; and so in the description of the Perfect Woman we read that in her mouth is the Law of Kindness. Hephzibah, the Perfect Woman, rules her household wisely in love and so applies the raw material, which she can draw from her husband's storehouse without stint, that, by her diligence and understanding, she converts it into all those varied forms of use and beauty which are indicated under the similitudes of domestic provision and merchandise in the thirty-first chapter of Proverbs.
Three Aspects
We find, then, two aspects of the Sacred name: one which presents it as the Universal I AM, the All-productive Power which is the root of all manifestation, and thus includes all individualities within Itself, involving them in the circulus of its own
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