The Plan of Creation (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the first, call them angels. Each one, when created, would vary from the others in its combination of faculties, the same as in the higher order. Order after order would thus be created, each a little lower than the preceding one in strength of faculties and amount of knowledge at the time of its creation. Evidently an order would be reached, so low in the scale of existence, that it would necessarily be created without any knowledge?or some of the faculties would be omitted, or both might occur. Before proceeding further with this branch of the subject, we wish to take up another matter which will materially assist the reader in understanding the creation of the lower order of beings. We refer to the laws according to which enjoyment is attained. From the consideration of these laws will more fully appear other characteristics of the different orders of beings that would be created, to fill out the Plan Of Creation. CHAPTER VI. THE LAWS ACCORDING TO WHICH ENJOYMENT 18 ATTAINED. In the preceding chapter was shown the kind of beings that would be created, and that each would be created with certain faculties of mind and with a certain amount of knowledge. But shall those faculties forever remain as at the moment of creation ? Shall the amount of knowledge with which each being was created forever remain as at first? If so, then the enjoyment would ever be as in the beginning. The same knowledge, neither more nor less, would become monotonous. The greatest enjoyment would not thus be attained. If, on the other hand, the faculties became stronger and stronger, the capacity for enjoyment would be greater and greater, and as the amount of knowledge increased, so would the enjoyment. The greatest enjoyment for thelongest time, would require that these beings should, du...