In other words, He had already formed the mold. Therefore, when God said-"Let the earth bring forth grass," He had in mind a clear mental image of what grass was like. Its vocabulary is the measure of its ideas. Scientists tell us that words denote ideas, mental concepts-that you can always judge how far a race has advanced in the mental scale by the number of words it uses. "įirst the "word," then the material form. Just listen: "And God said, Let there be light. IN EVERY THING GOD CREATED, THE "WORD" CAME FIRST-THEN THE MATERIAL FORM! What is the outstanding fact you find there? Turn to the Scriptural account of the creation of the world. Before you can accomplish anything, you must have a clear mental image of what it is you want to do. John-"In the beginning was the Word." For what is a "Word"? A mental image, is it not? Before an architect can build a house, he must have a mental image of what he is to build. It all comes back to that first line of the first chapter of the Gospel of St. And striving to see in his every action some reminder of her lost one, those images so strongly held in her mind actually expressed themselves in the body of her foster-child. She had adopted the waif to try to fill the void left by her own little boy. She had grieved inexpressibly over her loss. The parents were satisfied it was a case of reincarnation, but it seemed to me merely a materialization in the foster-child of the images in the mother's mind. And only recently I read of an adopted child, which was reported to have developed markings similar in all respects to those of the real son of its foster-parents, although the son had died some months before the adopted child was born. Various saints of the middle ages are said to have had markings on their hands, feet and sides similar to those on the crucified Saviour, acquired from constant contemplation of His image. Too lazy to rear and care for its own young, it goes to the nests of other birds when they are off seeking food, notes the markings on their eggs, then comes back later and lays in their nest eggs of those same exact markings!
"And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses." "But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. "And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters that they might conceive among the rods. "And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them unto Laban's cattle. "And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. "And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. "And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. Since Laban first removed from the herds all cattle of this kind, the chances of Jacob's getting rich on the speckled offspring of solid-colored cattle seemed poor indeed.īut Jacob evidently knew his Scriptures, and the idea we think so new, that first comes the "word" (or mental image), then the physical manifestation, was in his mind even when he made the bargain. Even then, when he would have gone back to his own country, Laban begged him to tarry yet a while longer, and agreed to pay Jacob as wages "all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the speckled and spotted among the goats." And how, through the guile of his father-in-law, Jacob had to serve a second seven years. You remember how Jacob agreed to serve Laban seven years for the hand of Rachel in marriage. Yet if you refer to the very first book of the Bible, you find more profound examples of applied psychology than in any textbook of today. We often speak of psychology and metaphysics as new sciences, and think that the study of these began within the last half-century. Then give to the world the best you have, "For life is the mirror of king and slave,
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