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Rh Mortals are egotists. They believe themselves independent workers, personal authors, and even privileged

originators of something which Deity would not or could not create. Mortal belief claims the power of creation, but its so-called creations are unreal. The immortal idea and its formations alone represent the Truth of creation.

When man resigns his claims as a creator, blends his thoughts of existence with those of his Maker, and

works only as God works, he will no longer grope darkly, and cling to earth because he has not tasted Heaven. Carnal beliefs defraud us. They make man an involuntary hypocrite, — producing evil when he would create good, forming deformity when he would outline grace and beauty, injuring those whom he would bless. He becomes a general mis-creator, who believes he is a creator, and his “touch turns hope to dust, the dust we all have trod.” He might say in Bible language: “The good that I would, I do not; but the evil, which I would not, that I do.”

There can be but one Creator, who has created all. Whatever seems to be a new creation is but a new

discovery of some distant idea of Truth, — else it is a new multiplication or self-division of mortal thought, — as when some finite sense peers from its cloister with amazement, and attempts to pattern the Infinite.

The multiplication of a human and mortal sense of persons and things is not creation. Material man, like an atom of dust thrown into the face of spiritual immensity, gives a flickering sensation, instead of an abiding consciousness of Being.