accommodation for the individual. And it is inconceivable that the Cosmic Power, as such, should ever pass beyond what we may call the administration of the world in globo [i.e. in a global sense --- Ed.], for to suppose It doing so would involve the self-contradiction of the Universal acting on the plane of the Particular without becoming the particular; and it is precisely by becoming the particular, or by evolution into individual minds, that it carries on the work beyond the stage at which things are governed by a mere Law of Averages.
It is thus that we become "fellow-workers with God" and that "the Father" is represented as inviting His sons to work in His vineyard. By recognition of his own true place in the scheme of evolution, Man learns that his function is to carry on the work which has been begun in the Universal to still further applications in the Particular, thus affording the key to the Master's words, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work" [John 5:17 --- Ed.]; and the instrument by which the instructed man does this is his knowledge of the Sacred Name in its Threefold significance.
"God Is Love"
The study of the sacred name is the study of the Livingness of Being and of the Law of Expression in all its phases, and no book or library of books is sufficient to cope with such a vast idea. All any writer can do is to point out the broad lines of the subject, and each reader must make his own personal application of it. But the Law remains for ever,
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