alike tell us it is the breathing-forth of Original Spirit; and
if you have followed what I have said regarding the reproduction
of this Spirit in the individual--that by the very nature of the
creative process the human mind must be of the same quality with
the Divine Mind--then we find that a second mode of the
Originating Spirit becomes possible, namely that of operation
through the individual mind. But whether acting cosmically or
personally it is always the same Spirit and therefore cannot lose
its inherent character which is-that of the Power which creates
ex nihilo. It is the direct contradiction of the maxim "ex nihilo
nihil fit"--nothing can be made out of nothing; and it is the
recognition of the presence in ourselves of this power, which can
make something out of nothing, that is the key to our further
progress. As the logical outcome of the cosmic creative process,
the evolutionary work reaches a point where the Originating Power
creates an image of itself; and thus affords a fresh point of
departure from which it can work specifically, just as in the
cosmic process it works generically. From this new standpoint it
does not in any way contradict the laws of the cosmic order, but
proceeds to specialize them, and thus to bring out results
through the individual which could not be otherwise attained.

Now the Spirit does this by the same method as in the Original
Creation, namely by creating em nihilo; for otherwise it would be
bound by the limitations necessarily inherent in the cosmic form
of things, and so no fresh creative starting point would have
been attained. This is why the Bible lays such stress on the
principle of Monogenesis, or creation from a single power instead
of from a pair or syzegy; and it is on this account that we are
told that this One-ness of God is the foundation of all the