Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-10

equally law on the psychic plane. Th'
physical atom represents the ultimate
division of which matter is conceivable
the Il am l" represents q SINH
lar ultimate division of consciousness
From both the idea of magnitude
or extension in space is excluded. Ger
tainly the II am T. cannot be conceived
as limited by the size or any other phys.
ical qualities of any body with which il
is associated. 1t is the unit of consci-
ousness; the true basis of all manifestie
tions of intelligence in nature, as the
atom is the unit of matter, and the
physical basis of all material forms.
30 with evolution. AS we have point
ed out, there is just as great defect in
logic and as fatal disagreement be-
tween the hypothesis and the fact that
design pervades every department Of
nature in annihilating race as there is
in predicting the annihilation of the in
dividual soul. The race ia but man of
larger growth, and if uncounted mil
lions OF individuals are to be sacrificed
to perfect glorious race only for this,
too, to be ultimately annihilated, then
the evil and unreason of creation are
ouly magnifed, not removed.
| But once admit the fact of reincarna-
| ton, and observe how the apparent
chaos OF injustice changes into the most
beautiful harmony. Apparently discor-
dant and irreconcilable phenomena are
marshalled into orderly array; confusion
| and injustice disappear, and life assumes
deeper and more significant meaning.
The terrible inequalities of birth, utter
ly inexplicable by the single birth, and
still more 80 by the materialistic hv-
pothesis, are shown to be the result of
causes set in operation,by the soul itself
in former incarnations, and not the care
less or stupid incapacity of some personal
god playing at creation, and making a
sad mess OF it. The wretch born of
drunken and vicious parents, amid such
surroundings as make virtue practically
a miracle, fore-doomed to life of want
and woe, has created such attractions !.
in former lives as render it impossible
for him to be born under any other cen
dltlons. No cruel fate nor blind
chance has been the slightest factor
IN bringing about the result. Just
as surely as the magnet turns to the
north, SO surely will the helpless soul
be drawn to those parents having the
greatest sum of similar attractions. The |
acid poured freely into vessel contain
ing solution of hundred alkalite |
bases will with unerring certainty COM
bine with that. and with that ONLY, for
which it has the greatest affinity. How
much more surely, then, will the soul /
seek out its strongest .affinities at
the moment of reincarnation than
the socalled Unconscious" atoms
on plain so far beneath it? How else
can we account for the infinite varia-
tioDs of character which appear from
the very moment of birth? One child
is born with genius, another an idiot
both Of paraptRa6. ~trvct puIore Une
infant comes into the world handicapped
by sullen temper and vicious DISPOSE
tion: another, with the most loveable
traits. Granting, for the sake of
that each inherits its pecu-
liarlties from its parents, how can
reason accept the black injustice
which sends one soul to the pure
parents and the other to the impure
ones, if neither had had any previous
voice in the mater? We must accept
reincarnation if we ever hope to solve
the awful inequalities which attend upon
birth. No man could it in his heart to
condemn his child to be born poor. in
nocent victim of such fiendish caprices,
such as unavoidable life of temptation,
suffering, degradation and death, fol-
lowed by an eternal hell, and yet
Christians believe this horrible thing OF
Jehovah, whom they claim to be OF IN
finite compassion and mercy.
Reincarnation, then, affords the key,
and the only key TO the inequalities
of birth; of the great divergence OF char
acter and mental capacity, ranging from
genius to idiocy, at birth; accounts Tor
ox,I ho "
plains "original sin," makes immortal
lty reasonable by extending the exist
ence of the soul to an infinite past as
we'll as to an eternal future. 1t is also
in perfect accord with the sclen-
tific conception of the persistence
of force, and the conservation OF
energy; and shows how cause,
once set in action, must have its effect
that energies generated in one life can
not be cut short by death, but must
find expression in a future one; that
the affinity which guides soul into the
most fitting body to express its charac-
teristics is but an exemplifcation OF the
law of energy or force taking the
direction of the least resistance.
| No effort is lost; soul force, Ike
all other forms of force, Is ever
conserved. The soul which has longed
and struggled for desired result, to find
its efforts cut short by death when, per-
haps. on the very point of realization,
does not lose the fruit of its toll and
self-denial The energy so generated
will accompany and guide and control
the next birth 80 as to continue It's ex-
preston in one unbroken line. No ef-
tort, whether for good or evil, can be
without it's results. 1t is a cause, and
in the eternal harmony of nature must
have it's corresponding effect.