commandments, and that the "Son of God" is declared to be
"monogenes" or one-begotten, for that is the correct translation
of the Greek word. The immense importance of this principle of
creation from a single power will become apparent as we realize
more fully the results proceeding from the assumption of the
opposite principle, or the dualism of the creative power; but as
the discussion of this great subject would require a volume to
itself, I must, at present, content myself with saying that this
insistence of the Bible upon the singleness of the Creative Power
is based upon a knowledge which goes to the very root of esoteric
principles, and is therefore not to be set aside in favour of
dualistic systems, though superficially the latter may appear
more consonant to reason.

If, then, it is possible to put the Great Affirmation into words
it is that God is ONE and that this ONE finds centre in
ourselves; and if the full meaning of this statement is realized,
the logical result will be found to be a new creation both in and
from ourselves. We shall realize in ourselves the working of a
new principle whose distinguishing feature is its simplicity. It
is ONE-ness and is not troubled about any second. Hence what it
contemplates is not how its action will be modified by that of
some second principle, something which will compel it to work in
a particular manner and so limit it; but what it contemplates is
its own Unity. Then it perceives that its Unity consists in a
greater and a lesser movement, just as the rotation of the earth
on its axis does not interfere with its rotation round the sun
but are both motions of the same unit, and are definitely related
to each other. In like manner we find that the Spirit is moving
simultaneously in the macrocosm of the universe and in the