The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-10-20


question We must deal strictly with cause
and effect. We will resort to that method
of investigation known rs deduction, there
by drawing out conclusions from given
principle. ss@
We will start with mind. No one eve,
and yet all are ready to testify that there ID
such thing az mind. We must admit tn at
mind is life. Life is action; therefore mind
is energy. activity, and the activity of mind
is thought. Mind, then. 10 creative. It is
intelligence. It is God. And as there is
mind is uncreate, self existent, universal.
It is infinite, therefore without beginning
and without end. It il unchangeable, be-
cause being infinite it cannot change-the
Same yesterday, to-day and forever. 1t in
cludes all within itself, because being i'm
finite it has no outside; it is the one eternal
mind that is ever evolving or unfolding
thoughts from its own deathless principle
Of truth: This absolutely. perfect mind /,
then is the intelligence which creates-the
God that made all that was made, and all
that He made was good;" and the creations
of God-mind are ideas, ranging from the
infnitesimal to immensity-fro the tiny
point of green up to man.
The result of mind is thought, and idea
is the form of thought. Mind is without
evolved from the depths of mind and be-
comes conscious of the perfect idea, the
God says, "Let there be light, and there is
light" Understand that God is mind and
that the form Of mind is idea. The mind
manifests itself through the ideas the
mind, the mind being the life, soul, sub
stance and intelligence Of the idea. God
being mind, the man made in Ellis image
and likeness" is idea. The idea is like the
mindthat formed it, created it's one with
it. In itself il is nothing; the mind being
ovo
through the idea. This Is the true meaning
of such statements made by Jesus as these:
I'm myself am nothing. It is not / that
doeth the work; it is the Father. There is
Father are one. I am in the Father and the
Father is in me. He that has seen me has
seen the Father"
Mind means unity; it cannot be separated.
Ideas are infinite in number and manifest
variety. Still the one mind in which the
multiplicity Of ideas are included has not
separated. it is always and forever the one
mind manifesting itself through its ideas,
So the mind, which is the life of man, is
one and indivlsible. 1t binds all together.
It is active like the surging ooean-never
rests: It 10 the great sun Of intelligence.
which is all substance within itself; ever
unfolding its inherent qualities through it's
beams Of truth. Its laws are based on
truth; therefore indestructible.
We come to matter: That which goes to
Unlike mind, which is invisible, intangible,
indivisible and indestructible, we find that
which 10 visible, tangible, Invisible and de-
structible. Chemistry tells Ms that thirteen
elements enter into the chemical compound
of which our bodies are made. Five of
these are gases and eight solid substances.
The gases exist in the human body in such
quantities as that, if they were set free,
would fill space of about 1000 cubic feet.
In the solids of the body we find carbon,
phosphorous and sulphur. Metals are
shown in the form Of iron, calcium-the
basis of lime, magnesium and potassium.
Added to these little quantity Of sodium,
and We have all the materials which 60 to
make up the body.
Science now hints that all the 80 called
elements which in their combinations form
all the matters Of every kind, in and about
the globe, the human body included, are
only notifications Of q primordial form of
matter brought about under certain condi-
tions, and that the one universal cause of
al OF them is electricity.
There is nothing in the human body,
earthly elements, capable 81 either living
or dying. The mind 10 life, and life is ac-
tivity, motion; and as matter separated
from mind-the corpse, for instance lis in
active, motionless, it 10 evidence conclusive
that action depends not upon matter but
Were life, mind, in matter. man would be
annihilated at the time called death; be-
cause the life, mind. intelligence, existing
In matter would diego out like q candle,
and that would be the last Of him. mmor-
tally would be myth; the man would 70
down into the grave, back to dust, back TO
FnothinQness.
But let % 60 back TO our starting point,
00d-inhnite mind-the absolute intelli-
eence that never had beginning, conse-
quently can never have an ending; without
beginning and end, because absolutely per-
feet; that from which nothing can be
taken, and to which nothing can be added
1.-The one indivisible, Interchangeable DEATH
less substance, in which all life, truth and
everything expressing life; embracing all;
containing all. (even % the sun includes its
beams ever manifestinR through all it's
own pure. perfect, harmonious. eternal,
creative energy.
energy, active principle inexhaustible; from
the fact that it is infinite. it is the great sun
|of intelligence, which includes its creations
tits children) within itself, (ranging from
the least thought Of truth even unto the
|greatest) ever unfolding, manifestinR and
Expressing itself through its own spiritual
creation. And as the source ID conscious
life, and motion il manifestation Of life,
Il can reflect or evolve nothing unlike iteelf.
1.-THE same fountain sendeth not forth sweet
and bitter waters"
AZ every expression OF Afe 10 manifesto.
tion of the one eternal. Interchangeable,
|d@athless. creative. self.existent principle,
included in the source even as the sunbeams
are included in tho sun, and as the mind
that is God j. infinite, omnipotent, omni-
present, omniscient, death finds no place, |
because all IL life, intelligence, absolute |
HE, eternal energy. Truth which manifests
LIE can no moro die than can the sunbeam
turn black; no more change than can q |
plumber change anchored in tho principle Of |
mathemasics. or note in the principle of |
music.
|. A. matter 10 incapable Of faasoninQ, low
(ine, aspiring and looking beyond the grave |
PC il the absence of all thses qualities which |
inspire in the all-seeinR, all-knoWine, all |
feeling. all-thinkinR. ALLOWING eternal |
mind. Mind and matter Stand q contra
Iaictoriss-the ono the real. and therefore |
powerful; the other the unreal, because pos |
IDo1eing NO power.
Mind. the principle Of intelligence, which |
governs harmony; the other matter, blind |
force. destructive. discordant. Mind. the |
ntslligsnes. ever unfolding idsas; natter. |
Ne naentivs. darkness, ienosanno.
4tnA. ~ connections k1as illuminated b. |