How did the sidereal heavens originate?

What do you really know of the laws governing the universes—

The wisdom that planned—

The thought that originated them? 

How―and when―and where did the sidereal heavens originate? 

The Great Originator—a Being so wise and good that to do good is His only object—forms and creates worlds and peoples them with sentient beings to enjoy them, endowed with capacities so constituted that they can still go on progressing in happiness and feeling by degrees—

Some of the same good and wise and loving impulses that characterise Him, the Creator. 

You cannot conceive of such a Being—

Much less can you conceive of Him, as the mighty God of the Universes―

Who could―and did―bring them into existence by the breath of His word or thought—

Who required no previous worlds of matter to make them from—

Who wanted no chaotic mass to be disturbed into existence, but could, from His own thought, His own Almighty Will and Order, originate matter, as easily as He can annihilate it. 

Nothing is impossible to Him. 

Is He not the great First Cause—

The Mind of the Universe? 

How can you measure Deity? 

How can you pretend to understand a Being so inconceivably above you or say such and such things He might do—such and such He could not—they are impossible. 

It is only just and natural that the doings of the great God should be past your understanding. 

Would you put yourself on a level with Deity and measure it with a rule and compass?

The God who had power enough to form the worlds unnumbered that surround our little sphere might be supposed to have power equal to any emergency—

And so He has. 

More worlds are continually springing into existence under His controlling will and still He will continue to create, to originate them—

It is His pleasure to form them, as the abodes of future, happy races, and for the development of more and more of the God-principle. 

This great unknown, unseen Being, who rules and orders all things, both in heaven and earth, so wisely, and with such inconceivable skill, disseminates His powerful mind, so overflowing in goodness and greatness of conception, and in this way He finds the best means of making it felt by other beings He develops into existence.

The idea that God required a seething cauldron of molten matter to form His new worlds from is erroneous in the extreme. 

Where did this lava come from? 

That must have been created before He used it. 

That heat is one of the essential requisites in developing a world is quite true but it is not the original of the world. 

That was the mind of God. 

In Him alone it originated—

From Him alone it was produced.

The great Father of the Universes has existed always. 

There was never a time when God was not. 

He has always been the same unchangeable Being, great in His isolation and invisible in His position—great in His mighty works, His unseen, though not unfelt, power. 

Establish this fact in your mind—

No time was when God was not―

No time when this great Being was not just as He is now—

The life and essence of all things.

When God wills to do anything, the subtle essence generated in Himself is thrown off in great abundance. 

Equal to the want is the supply and this develops all the other constituents. 

When a thought of God has formed or originated this great central sphere, others are developed from it. 

The thought that sent forth its light to develop these spheres from the surrounding darkness endowed them also with heat and motion, and these three―light, heat and motion―continued on the work and developed other formations. 

Wise laws rule the development of these immense bodies. 

When one is projected into space, it is generally the developer of many others. 

With the magnetism of the Almighty mind, it impregnates itself first, and then throws off its superabundance of this life-principle into the space around and forms other spheres, which revolve around it in regular order and thus it becomes the centre of a Universe. 

By the laws governing the Universes and all the different spheres, and which laws originated in the Almighty mind; one central sun being developed by the thought and from the essence of Deity, other globes, planets or satellites, whatever you may choose to call them, were, after the lapse of untold time, projected from it and developed by slow process into worlds, and continued to revolve, in regular order, round their central luminary. 

Many, many cycles of years were necessary to perfect its development sufficiently, for the first living forms to exist, and still more and more cycles before it was fitted for the abode of man. 

Such is progression, the great law of the universe, acting on great and small alike―

All are subject to its influence, every development in nature, every faculty of the human mind.