Creating and Making Man

EOM Ida Mingle

Man is created in the image and likeness of God, meaning that God as Male-Female Principle of Being idealized Itself as a state of being, this being revealing itself as Man when he is made. God both creates and makes in Principle, but in order to form what has been created and made, man must also create and make. The operation of this Law has been operative the last century, though the making of Man is still going on, it including the making of a new spirit and a new body, as well as a new planetary environment. The creating and making of Man involve the proper relation of the spiritual and the physical.

The Creation of Man

The creation of Man is usually associated with God and the making of Man with man. This is not the absolute Truth, for both God and Man are involved in creating and making. Man is created in the image and likeness of God, but unless he becomes conscious of this creation, he is not made to conform to the image and likeness; that is to the male (image) and the female (likeness) of God (Being). God creates in principle, hence it is written in scripture that after God had completed its creation, there was not a man to till the soil; meaning there was no consciousness in keeping with the God-Principle to bring forth from itself what God had created. The soil is consciousness in which the Principles of Being must be cultivated (tilled). How many today till the soil of their consciousness, faithfully and intelligently, so as to bring forth what has been created? How many let the soil bring forth as it will, without any consideration of the relation of sowing and reaping? Man is not yet made, though when he controls thought, feeling, word, and action, so as to conform to inherent Principles of Being, he is in the process of being made. However, he must create himself after the manner of God before the Principles of Being in which is the form to be can bring forth after their kind, and reveal spiritual being.

One can understand man's relation to the creation from the plane of nature. The body of the radish is in the radish seed where the spirit of life is, but it exists only in principle. The seed must be sown in proper soil and under natural conditions to permit the radish to be formed from the mixture of the spirit of the seed with the soil. So it is with man; the body that is to be is one with the Spirit of Life that is within being, but it requires proper soil and natural conditions to permit the form of being to appear. The Spirit of Life, in which is the form of being, must be attained and a spiritual soil be cultivated to permit the body of the Spirit of Life to come forth. The Spirit of Life is Truth, Christ. Man is admonished to "Let Christ be formed in you," but to attain to the Spirit of Life that is Christ he must die to the spirit of mortal man. The bringing forth of Man is much more complex than bringing forth a radish, though the invisible things are more clearly seen by understanding the things that are.

The Creation of Man is in Spirit, both with God and with Man. Man must duplicate the works of God, by creating or idealizing himself in Spirit as he is in being, before he can be conscious of himself as he is. Man started to do this the last century, declaring himself to be what he could conceive himself to be in being. Whatever he desired to be he declared it as already being, which it is in Principle. The practice and idea brought forth ridicule from many ignorant religionists, but the race was touching a law that was above the material thought of men. It had come to the point of advancement where it could in hope declare its reality in being, taking a stand with God, and declare as being in form what was already being in God (Spirit). This was a mighty step of advancement, though as yet little understood, for with many it was a sort of make-believe, without sufficient faith or will to see it through, and with others, it was a declaring of truth as though the mortal man was to reap the totality of results. It is true that the mortal man was quickened in his forces, and where Wisdom and Love did not or could not rule, the mortal egos became puffed up in their conceits, thinking themselves in mortality to be what they were expected to be in spiritually. In other words, the action of God the last century is not for the purpose of bolstering up the old man, but to make one conscious of the Principles of Being, so that those who have the love of these Principles may become servants of God in the establishment of a New Order of Life and Being, The egos conforming to the Principles of Being, dying to the old man and his deeds as the New Man is made alive, become themselves the fruit of the Principles, and the revelation of the new heavens (spirits) and new earth (bodies) that characterize the spiritual states of being.

The Creation of Man must be in Truth, and it must be scientific, One can declare as already being what one is in Being, for God (Being) has completed the creation, Hence one can say, "I am spiritual being, established now in Life and Truth," but it is of the spiritual man that the declaration is made. When one has sufficiently idealized oneself in God, as God has idealized man, as Life, Loves Strength, Power, Substance, Understanding, Will, affirming, "I am Life expressing, I am Love expressing," realizing that God is expressing its Qualities as Man, one becomes conformed to the Creation of God, and permits the Laws of God to open in the consciousness to make man. However, man is made from the dust of the ground; therefore it is necessary that this dust be present to permit the making of Man in God's image and likeness. Dust is substance, when spiritually discerned. The reduction to nothingness of the forces made by mortal mind, and the superseding of them with the knowledge of Truth, establishes the dust of Creative fame, by which man can be fashioned and made. Hence, a dying of the old man is necessary at the same time that the new man is being made alive through idealizations of truth, this permitting the proper negation in which the Divine Will moves to make man.

The Creation of Man means wore than realizing that one is spiritual man, made of Qualities of Being. It is to attain to the consciousness of Being all that God has created. The Being of God is identified in Man as Christ. Christ is the Truth. Hence, the attainment of the Truth is the attainment of consciousness of Being, by which Being may become conscious of Itself as Man, and manifest the reality of Itself. As one realizes the Truth the untruth is also known, this bringing the untruth to cessation in the presence of Truth. The cessation of untruth forms the nothingness of matter, in which are the energies of the forms of untruth that have been, this energy being utilized in the Divine Laws to give form and tangibility to the Qualities of Truth realized. Thus the unforming of the consciousness that has been is one with the forming of the consciousness to be, which is inclusive of spirit and body; though the outworking of the body is in the "greater works" of God, present at the end of mortality (now working out).

The Making of Man

The making of Man is from the Creation. While Man exists in the Creative Principle (God), like a chair exists in the idea of the mind of the inventor, the making of Man is as definite as the making of the chair. The making of man is much more complex than making a chair, for it takes ages to develop consciousness in a kind of a man, called mankind, so as to have faculties of spirit, soul, mind, and body, by which the Creation of Man is accomplished. Man must enter into the creation of himself as he is to be, which is to declare himself as already being what he is to be, before the making of man can be accomplished; comparable to the inventor spending thought in working out the ideas of the form of the invention, completing them on the inner plane, before the actual form can be reproduced. The Laws of Life so operate as to reproduce a kind of a man, living in a world that reflects the realities of Being; though in addition to these reflections there are forces that have sprung up from chaos (like the weeds in the soil) that must also be reckoned with. These are the tares that are gathered by the angels of the same time that the wheat is gathered; comparable to the assembling of the untruths to their appointed end at the time the Truth is gathering its own, preparatory toward working out the Plan of God in Man and for him.

As one begins to realize the Truths of Being, one will begin to not be what he. been, at the same time being what he has not been. All that exists in mortality is opposite to being, therefore the mind of the flesh, which is death, and which is an enemy to Truth or Christ, must be overthrown and overcome with the realizations of Truth, this attending the establishment of the new creature, at the time of the death of the old creature. Every idea of Truth is realized through combating the opposite untruths this involving the form of expression, though that may be on the plane of mind, soul, or will, as well as on the outer bodily plane. Form is expression, and has its ultimate as the body of man. Yet one has form of expressing ideas, of feelings, words, and actions, hence form has its invisible as well as its visible plane. One is expected to become Perfect, even as the Father in Heaven is perfect, meaning that one is expected to conform to the Laws of Being (Father), and to do so must develop the spirit of Perfection. The spirit of Perfection, developed as respecting all forms of expression, permit, the Principle of Perfection to open in man, and to make known its Plan of Being. One could not continue to make mistakes in ideas, words, expression of feelings, will of action, on the outer plane, and at the same time develop the spirit of Perfection; nor could one expressing imperfectly expect to contact the Principle of Perfection, which the Father, or Laws of Being is.

The making of man is the physical expression of the spiritual qualities. Therefore the spiritual, when completed, is the physical, the earth of the heavens, the body of the spirit. The formation of the spirit includes the actual realization of Truth, in which is the form to be. Every idea of Truth contains the form to be, as well as the energy-rate of being; that is, the form to be and the will of Being that brings it forth. The ideas function in consciousness, relating to different parts of the organism, though the body that now is, is not the body that is to be:

"but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;
but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own."

I Cor. 15:37-38

Each ego is reduced to the primal seed of Being, when divested of mortality, and the Principles of Being fashion the body of this seed, thus, each ego attaining the consciousness of Christ (Truth) becomes a gained Principle of Being (God). Man works with the Principles of Being until he has made the ideal of himself real to himself, but then must become the model by conducting the forces of spirit, soul, mind, and body so as to conform to the Principles of Being. This is the foundation upon which the body is made. When man makes himself in form to be what he has idealized in spirit, spirit and body are united as One, and the One, or Christ, begins to form itself in this oneness, bringing forth spiritual man; the bodily expression of the Spirit.

Spiritual man is a new creature in spirit and in body. Because the body is made to conform to the ideas of Spirit, it will be an organism that cannot suffer pain, nor undergo dissolution. Spiritual man will have continuity of being as God has it without the necessity of birth or death. This will be a fourth-dimensional organism, not a third dimensional, as in the mortal state of being. The spiritual man will have powers of translation, that is, the power of being visible or invisible. The fourth-dimensional is not attainable in the third-dimensional world, except as God works it out in Christ consciousness, to reveal the Principle. The so-called miracles associated with Christ's first coming, and the apparent phenomena present in the second, are not through the mind of man but through the Will of God, the evidence to those who can understand of the Power of God to control the physical world, as well as the world of Spirit; though this is possible only through Man attuned to the Divine Will. Spiritual man, the bodily result of the Creation of Man, is man made in the image and likeness of God and is united male-female type; called virgin in scripture. The male-female type is a united state, the epitome of the United States government that is destined to reveal the spiritual fruits, when it has been divested of its material gains.

Resurrection and Redemption of the Body

The resurrection of the body is the final act of God in making man. It is the ascendancy above the plane of matter of the being of man, but this necessitates an ascension in spirit, before the body can work out. The ascension of the spirit has been taking place the last century, but not many of the advancing egos understand the relation of the physical to the Spirit. Many are called to work out the Plan of God and prepare the way for Christ, but few are chosen to reap the fruits of the outworked Plan. This is because few can make the physical overcoming at this time, by which the body can enter into redemption. The love of the flesh holds man in bondage. Since the love of the flesh is that which produces the mortal body, it follows that the death of the love of the flesh is essential to cause the spiritual body to be formed. Redemption of the body includes the regeneration of the consciousness, a transcending of the love and will of the flesh by which the Love and Will of God may set up their authority in the ego and bring forth the reality of being.

It is Christ that redeems man and brings forth reality of being, but this is not an automatic procedure, Consciousness must be conformed in spirit and love as well as in will, to the desire of Being to manifest its reality, by desiring with the whole heart to let the Divine Will be done in the earth or formed plane, as it is in heaven, the unformed. This is a challenge to the Divine Laws, and when consciousness is sufficiently advanced, the challenge is accepted, this forcing man to clean up himself and to put on the Mind of Christ. The Body Of Christ, the body of reality, is present in the Mind of Christ, even as the body is present in the seed, like the oak tree is present in the acorn. The Seed contains the body to be, and when an ego has gained his seed in Christ, which is to supersede the love of the flesh with the Love of the Lord (Laws)s the real state of being can he brought forth. This is the union of spirit and body, the new heavens and the new earth in which righteousness can dwell. A merger of the male and female potencies of mortality is necessary to bring forth the body of the mortal; even so a merger of the male and the female potencies of the spiritual nature is necessary to give identity to the Seed of Beings and to bring forth the real state of man.

The Law of Immaculate Conception

The Law of Immaculate Conception governs the reproduction of man as God created him to be. This is the Law of Divine Love. Divine Love is gained by dying to the love of the flesh, for the Love of God dies to give rise to the mortal race. Therefore, the death to mortality gives rise to the Love of God in exact scientific order. It is to say that when consciousness no longer desires to be brought forth as a mortal it is willing to die to the laws of fleshly love that bring forth mortality, this death permitting the Love of God to arise in the spirit by which it begins to work out its Plan in fashioning and forming the real man. The Virgin Mary was the first ascent in the race of the Love of God, being in repulsion to the ways of man. She became a Womb-Center into which could be segregated the spiritual qualities progressed in the race prior, and up to her time. This Womb-Center was the physical identity of the Womb-Center existent in God, in which God, the Father, moved to fashion a race and a planet. This is the Mother-Center of God that is one with the Father, yet has distinct function.

The establishment in the race of the Womb-Center as the Virgin Mary, permitted the action of God in the essences of Spirit, besetting within the Virgin Mary the form of this Divine Seed. The Divine Seed is the aggregation of the Qualities of Spirit, in which is the form to be. Hence, it is written that Mary was with child of the Holy Spirit, for she had become the visible Womb-Center into which the Qualities of the Spirit had been aggregated. The betrothal of Mary to Joseph implies that necessary union of the Qualities of the Spirit with the energies of the body to give them tangible form, without which they could not be revealed. The formed man, brought forth from the spiritual union of heaven and earth (Virgin Mary and Joseph) was called Jesus, meaning "God with us" or consciousness in which is the authority of the Divine Will. This form of being became the Type of Man God makes, but many think the Law of Immaculate Conception cannot be set up in them. This is a deception for all must be spiritually born to partake of the Principles of Being. The Law of Immaculate Conception is set up when the Principle of Divine Love is opened in consciousness through dying to the love of the flesh. The aggregation of the Qualities of Being to a central woman or Womb-Center is essential to give spiritual birth to the children of God, the Manchild, to be brought forth at the end of mortality. The Virgin Mary brought forth the individual type that became in function the Father Principle in the earth. Through the dissemination of the Qualities of Being, aggregated in Jesus, in the Law of the Cross, all those who received the Qualities were given the power to become the children of God; but it requires the Universal Mother Function to raise up the virgins, the Manchild, the 144,000 children of God and Christ.

The Law of Immaculate Conception operation from the Universal Womb-Center at the end of mortality, opening the "greater works" incidental to bringing forth the bodies of the redeemed egos. It not only deals with the formation of the bodies to he but with the unformation of the bodies that now are. It deals not only with individuals who can receive it, but with the race also, though the racial function is in bringing forth immortality and reducing mortality to naught. It is at the end of mortality that the kingdom of the world becomes the kingdom of God and Christ. The body or old form of being is disturbed at the formation of the new earth or body, this disturbance extending into the domains of the world into which the Powers of God were introduced at the first coming of Christ, through those who warred against the Christ Principle. Since these were soldiers, merchants, governors, lawyers, financiers, ministers, teachers, and other worldly factors, these are the factors that receive the retribution of the Power of God at the second coming of Christ, as their works are still opposed to Christ, the Truth, so long as mortality exists. The universal function of the Law of Immaculate Conception is to gain the energy of form, through dissolution of many formed expressions, by which to form the spiritual world and to manifest it as the next order of progression. This becomes immortality to the race, but the possibility of eternal life to those running ahead of the race.

Spirit and Form

The Spirit and Form are one in Divine Law, but on the plane of materiality they have become separated, and a false spirit has been set up as well as a false form of expression. The false spirit is the lie, the false form the various expressions of untruth. It is the work of everyone expecting the union of the spirit and the body as one, by which Christ, the One of God, can form itself and manifest the reality of being, to create and make a new spirit and a new form. This new spirit is promoted through realizing that the spirit of living as a mortal is opposite to God's Plan; therefore one is willing to die to that spirit and to put on the spirit of Truth. The new form is gained through changing the form of expression, the form of thought, the form of feeling, the form of words and of deeds. The body, as outline of form, is unchangeable, it manifesting the idea of Divine Intelligence, man not being accountable for bodily form. Mortals may think they make bodies by bringing them forth by laws of births but this is a fallacy. The gardener does not make the radishes or the cabbages because he tills the soil. The body of what is to be is present in the seed. The seed of men (race) brings forth the forms of men, and the Law of Birth which is a duplication of the Law of Spiritual Birth that issues from the Creator, causes the body to be formed within the wombs of women. The Law of Spiritual Birth especially operates at the end of mortality from the Universal Womb-Center, the Mothering Principle of God. It includes the expulsion in anguish and pain of the Qualities of Being into the world of effects, though the bodies that are to be are already provided in the Divine Seeds, aggregated as Qualities of Being and Truth in the Womb-Center.

Spirit is the invisible essences before they are realized in the life. Immediately a spiritual quality is realized in the life that has taken on spirit-form. All form is first in Spirit before it is in body, like the form of a radish in a radish seed before the seed is sown in the soil. The formation of the spirit-form is in the Laws of God, the Law of Immaculate Conception operating to bring forth the reality or formed expression. Egos must prepare not only the spirit of what is to be, but the spirit-form. For example, the attainment of a new spirit of Love through dying to the love of the flesh is the gained spirit of Love as it operates to fashion spiritual man. The formation of that spirit as spirit-form is in the overcoming of all forces adverse to love, such as hate, jealousy, malice, revenge, willfulness, deceit, trickery, etc. This overcoming involves living experiences on the plane of form or body, this embodying the spirit as spirit-form. When an ego has become a model man, the Model of God, Christ, can open in the consciousness and cause the spirit and form to bring forth the reality; or cause the Spirit-form to become reality in which is the united spirit and body.

Creating and Making Man a Scientific Principle

The Creating and Making of Man is along exact scientific principles. The parent of Science is Truth. Spiritual Science is the application of the Principles of Truth to consciousness, by which they are proven and the solution of making man is gained. Man is the problem in the Divine Laws, though he is already made in Principle of Creation. Spirit and Body are one in Divine Mind even as are Heaven and Earth. It is only on the plane of the world, where the reflections of the Principle occur, and not the reality, that there is a separation, this resulting in separation of Man and Woman, and necessitating the two comings of Christ, first as Man and last as Woman. It is the union of Man and Woman, worked out at the second coming of Christ, operative since 1922, that gives birth to the proper spirit and proper body, in scientific spiritual laws. While mortals may not understand the detailed science that operates to form mortal bodies within the wombs of woman, they accept the fact that this must be scientifically expressed, else no harmonious form of man would be brought forth. It follows if exact science operates in the formation of the mortal body, an exact science operates in the formation of the spiritual state of being, but spiritual science must be spiritually discerned.

"The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him;
and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged."

The Science of Creating and Making Man is first in Spirit. God is Spirit and man must attain to consciousness of himself, as he is in Spirit, before he has created an ideal of himself as he has been idealized or created. This idealization opened the last century, in keeping with the exact Law of Being; by which man affirmed himself as being what he perceived himself to be in God. When this act of creating is completed, the ego shall have died to the self-spirit and have been opened in the Spirit of God, which is Christ, the Truth. Christ, the Truth, contains the form of Being to be, this form being in the Spirit, (like the radish is in the seed of the radish in spirit-form; the actual form being its manifestation when united with the soil). Christ, the Truth, the Spirit in which is the form to be, must be united with the soil of consciousness in order to reproduce its form of being; thus Truth is lowered to the plane of living only that consciousness may be raised to the plane of being. This lowering primarily operative in the Laws of God was called the "Fall of Man." This Fall operates in both comings of Christ, a descent of the ascended spirit of Man, as well as the Spirit of God, the two as one forming Jesus Christ, being necessary to carry the Qualities of Being down to the race and all spiritually up to the status of being as God created man to attain. This is not the work of a moment, but occupies the least amount of time, comparable to the greatest amount of time necessary in making mortality.

The making of Man, after the Creating has been completed, deals with the bodily plane. This making has been going on individually since 1912, requiring ten years to produce the spirit-form of Man, this production becoming the center of the Universal making of man that began in 1922. The Universal is inclusive of the forces of the world, for a new planetary condition mast be prepared for a new state of man. A new state of man demands also a new State. Governmental changes the last fourteen years are incidental to the entrance of the Power of God into the world, the power of the world, centered to finances, being especially disordered; though it is used as a means of trying and testing the consciousness of the race. Not anything happens by chance. All is under Law, directly or indirectly. The entrance of the Divine Laws into the affairs of men the last century ultimates in bringing forth what the Spirit has decreed, a new spirit and a new body. This is individually attained as the fruit of the Spirit, as spiritual man, and racially revealed as a re-born race.