Nothing lost?

The attributes of the Deity are all comprehended in the One Great Name, Infinite Intelligence, and must not be separated from Him, the All-Perfect. 

Now, this Infinite Intelligence, in whom there is combined all power, wisdom, truth, love, mercy and justice, created souls and these he constituted lesser infinites,* beings like unto Himself. 

This Great Intelligence created lesser intelligences, who, by conjunction with material bodies and the discipline derived from experience in such bodies, might increase in knowledge and wisdom, and ever progressing in love and truth soar higher and higher, back into the bosom of their Father whence they came. 

When created in the long-past ages, man was destined to become a partner with the Great Intelligence, for we sprang from Him. These lesser infinites, though not endowed with omnipotence, had a little of the Creator's power.

Let us look at the works of the Great Intelligence. 

The Universe of worlds, those vast material bodies, were not formed at once and sent out on their rolling course—they had to come through a process of preparation, that in due time they might become dwelling places fitted for man in mortal frame—even as the spirits of men need preparation for life in the Summerland of the spirit. 

Behold that body rushing through space! 

At first, it appears but a flickering flame, but onward it goes in its rapid course until it develops into a ball of fire, a body really material, not as is our earth, but a medium as it were between that which sprang from the Infinite Creator and the first formation of this earth. Then we see this fiery, flying ball attracting and collecting lesser bodies in its course until it cools down into that material substance with which we build our houses and temples.

In all this wondrous and mighty work of the formation of worlds, there is nothing lost by the Intelligent Maker. 

As a wise mason preserves the chips hewn from the block of stone and turns them to use, even so does the Creator turn to use the dust of worlds. 

The grinding of the rocks of the new world goes on, and slowly but surely the deep dark gorges are filled up. The thick enshrouding vapours descend and are welcomed to the parched bosom of the thirsty globe, and thus gradually does the Great God prepare the land for His offspring to enter in and enjoy.

Seeing that the Great Intelligence has constituted lesser intelligences, and prepared for you a sphere in which you may act as becomes intelligent beings, the offspring of the Infinite, you are also creators, not of evil, but of that which is good. 

It is for you to beautify the dwelling place He has assigned you by endeavouring so to live that your fellowmen will be benefited. 

Remember that the Infinite Spirit created nothing greater than man. The meanest of your fellowmen is, therefore, greater, nobler, far than the great world in which He has placed us. But great and beautiful as is this earth, it falls far short of the heavenly world where the spiritual origin of all material things will be fully open to us and the mysteries that beset us in our present state will be revealed.

—Hermes, the Egyptian