Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-30
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make any thing, you first think, AM
form an image of the thing, its shape
and parts, in your mind. Thus, ma
chimes and engines have not been in
vented by men going % work 1T hap
hazard with wood and iron, but only by
their first seeing, clearly, in their mind,
what they propose to construct. How
could q steam-engine otherwise ever
have existed?
The idea of the thing once formed,
you employ your hands to make it out of
the shapeless matter. You embOdy your
idea in the material You utter your
thought outwardly. You manifest it, in
time and space. If the soul, mind or
spirit be a real, as e~riSteRt, as matter,
the idea in YOU mind was real, before il
took shape in the material thing, which
only expresses the idea.
You use your hands to make the thing.
Suppose that was not necessary ? Sup
pose that, AZ soon as you formed the idea,
you could, by your mere will, change
and transmute the silk, leather, wool or
other material, into that already in your
mind in idea? Your viii would then do,
by its own direct action, what it nOW
does, using the hands as its instruments.
Suppose it had the power, once having
formed the idea, not merely to express ii
Outwardly, give il bodily shape, by the
use Of existing materials; but to create
those materials? You will not doubt
that it is, in reality, tie will that is the
efficient cause, that really produces the
thing. The hands are the mere tools
with which it works. The creative !
4" force I" is in the will but the will to
create is no more real than the idea
which is to be O1tWardly expressed.
Thoughts and ideas aEe the highest
realities.
If you were invisible, because ia no
respect material, and having formed in
yourself the idea o. image OF anything,
1 should see that thought once appear
in visible and material shape, the po-
tency would be at enc admitted to reside
in you, and the Idea in you to be the
reality, of which the visible object is but
the expression. When you spesk or
write, the sounds or the characters are
merely arbitrary. They are not the
thoughts; they only, by virtue Of the
common consent that has accepted them,
represent the thoughts. The thoughts
themselves, impalpable, ~inaGdible, in
immaterial, are the realities.
The words are but their utterance, their
manifestation.
Now, yoU ARE iaVisi65e. I do not see
you. The invisible spirit is you. ! only
see and feel its manifestations, its utter
! do not hear or see, or feel your
thoughts, but only the expression, utter
ances and outward signs and symbols Of
them. If you love me, I do not see that
itself but only its demonstrations,
utterances and effects. Yet il is the
Thoughts, the Lone, the Ideas, that are
the actual, hVSng, spiritual realities. Il
Is your will, that acts, Influences. creates.
II, possessed OF power and wisdom Of
extent, you proposed to create
the seed Of a new tower, you must first
loran in your mind an idsa, not only Of
the shape and figure Of the seed, hut OF
all that is to be developed from il. All
that must be- tB one sense, in is; myriads
Jf flowers, multiplying in time, occupy
ing space, reproducing themselves con-
.inuslly by means of like seeds. IF yeu
we're TO create this seed, al these shrubs
aud flowers and seeds in their Gncornted
nyriacs, unfolding and developing iiur-
Dg centuries Of time, warh their perfume
md colour, would Be the manifestation, !
time and spsce, Of ypur single idea
he manifold, deyaleHng itself from
pity Of idea De tnderstaDd 2
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