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The Doré Lectures - being Sunday addresses at the Doré Gallery, London, given in connection with the Higher Thought Centre by Thomas Troward
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it is still a starting-point. It, indeed, transcends our previous
range of ideas and so presents a culmination of the cosmic
creative series which passes beyond that series and thus brings
us to number Eight or the Octave; but on this very account it is
the number One of a new creative series which is personal to the
individual.

Then, because the Spirit is always the same, we may look for a
repetition of the creative process at a higher level, and, as we
all know, that process consists first of the involution of Spirit
into Substance, and consequently of the subsequent evolution of
Substance into forms continually increasing in fitness as
vehicles for Spirit: so now we may look for a repetition of this
universal process from its new starting-point in the individual
mind and expect a corresponding externalization in accordance
with our familiar axiom that thoughts are things.

Now it is as such an external manifestation of the Divine ideal
that the Christ of the Gospels is set before us. I do not wish to
dogmatize, but I will only say that the more clearly we realize
the nature of the creative process on the spiritual side the more
the current objections to the Gospel narrative lose their force;
and it appears to me that to deny that narrative as a point-blank
impossibility is to make a similar affirmation with regard to the
power of the Spirit in ourselves. You cannot affirm a principle
and deny it in the same breath; and if we affirm the
externalizing power of the Spirit in our own case, I do not see
how we can logically lay down a limit for its action and say that
under highly specialized conditions it could not produce highly
specialized effects. It is for this reason that St. John puts the
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