Originating Spirit, which first brought the world into existence,
is also the root of our own individuality, and is therefore
always ready, by its inherent nature, to continue the creative
process from this individual stand-point as soon as the necessary
conditions are provided, and these conditions are
thought-conditions. Then by realizing the relation of Christ to
the Originating Mind, the Parent Spirit or "Father," we receive a
STANDARD of thought which is bound to act creatively bringing out
all the potentialities of our hidden being. Now the relation of
Christ to the "Father" is that of the Architypal Idea in the
All-creating Mind of which I have previously spoken, and so we
arrive at the conception of the Christ-idea as a universal
principle, and as being an idea therefore capable of reproduction
in the individual Mind, thus explaining St. Paul's meaning when
he speaks of Christ being formed in us. It is here that the
principle of monogenesis comes in, that principle which I have
endeavoured to describe in the earlier part of the present series
as originating the whole manifested creation by an internal
action of the Spirit upon itself; and it is the entire absence of
control by any second power that renders the realization in
external actuality of a purely mental ideal possible. For this
reason systematic spiritual study commences with the
contemplation of the existing cosmos, and we then transfer the
conception of the monogenetic power of the Spirit from the cosmos
to the individual and realize that the same Spirit is able to do
the same thing in ourselves. This is the New Thought which in
time will fulfil itself in the New Order, and we thus provide new
thought-conditions which enable the Spirit to carry on its
creative work from a new stand-point, that of our own
individuality. This attainment by the Spirit of a new