We see, therefore, the great unmanifested _One_ manifesting itself in its own _Substance_ (Space) by means of _two_ powers, _Thought_ (imagination) and _Will_ (the _Word_ or Life); both powers being fundamentally identical and merely two different modes of activity or functions of the _One_ Eternal, internal Principle, called God. According to the _Bible_, God said, "Let there be light," and through the power of this outspoken "_Word_," the world came into existence. This allegory, expressed in modern language, means that by the _active_ Will of the universal First Cause, the images existing in its eternal memory were thrown into objectivity and thus produced the germs from which the worlds with all things existing therein were evolved and grew into the shapes in which we see them now. The _Brahmins_ say that when _Brahm_ awoke from his slumber after the night of creation (the great Pralaya) was over, he _breathed out_ of his own substance, and thus the evolution of worlds began. If he _in-breathes_ again, the worlds will be re-absorbed in his substance, and the day of creation will be over. [God being essentially and self-evidently inconceivable by man, all attempts of Brahmin, Christian, or any other theologians to explain his existence and his methods of creation can be recognized by the scientific mind only as hypotheses unsusceptible of verification, and, therefore, incapable of becoming a proper basis of Philosophy.] Thus we find, on examining the doctrines of all the greatest religions of the world, that they all teach the same truth, although they teach it in different words and in different allegories. They all teach that there exist two fundamental powers, originating from the absolute _One_, namely, _Thought_ and _Will_; and it logically follows that if a man were a complete master over his thoughts and his will, he could become a creator within the realm to which his thought and imagination extend; he could, consequently, by the power of his will and thought, control all the functions of his organism, the so-called involuntary ones as well as those which are voluntary. He could--if he possessed a perfect knowledge of his own constitution--restore abnormal functions to their normal state, and restore diseased organs to health. [The mode of expression used in this paragraph is rather misleading. One may have a complete mastery of his thoughts and will, while both thought and will are very feeble and ineffective. It requires great POWER in the will and thought to acquire such control over bodily functions, and any expression leading persons of feeble character to suppose they can attain such results would be delusive. Many persons of feeble character have been led by current speculations to aspire far beyond their ability.]