The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-10

MAN AND THE INVISIBLE
DR.. Scion Lauer's Lecture on Abstruse
Subjects
{. An Astronomical Party--foresters Dance.
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Pasadena, March 9.-Reverend Scion
Lauer gave the third lecture OF his course
at G. A. r. Hall last evening before
large audience, taking as his subject,
Mans Relation to the Invisible, from the
text, Things which we see are temporal.
Things which are unseen are etlerial."
The attention of the audience was closely
held during the entire lecture, which was
an elegant effort along the line of ad-
yanced thought.
The speaker first called the attention of
his audience to the fact that the invisib BILE
universe is far greater than the visible,
that the planets are mere specks floating
in the immense invisible. 1t is the fun
damental postulate scien ifcally that all
visible came from the invisible and will
return to it again. The real man is in
visible. Thought, feeling, aspiration
these and kindred elements the real man?
Thoughts are not things, but things are
expressions of thought. Man, then, be-
longs as much to the invisible as the Wis
ible universe, and to attempt to realize
and investigate the great immensely of
which we find ourselves component part
is task too great to contemplate to-
night.
let us take one cubic inch of the space
within this room and let it represent the
whole As we examine this inch of space
what do we find? Physical science has re-
posed OF innumerable micro organisms,
many Of which are too small to be seen
by the human eye when existing sepa-
rately. The atmosphere is filled with
these loose floating particles here within
our inch. We viii not only. find repre-
scented the component parts of air, moist
ure or water and its peculiar elements,
but also all else that is held in the air
solution of foreign nature.
Among these we will find particles of
dust. Perhaps every mineral known
may be represented atoms from the
atoms from the animal kingdom are also
there, because the animal microbes are
constantly being thrown off by all ami
NAL life, hence we have here in our one
inch an invisible molecular world; the
physical elements of the universe out of
which, by condensation, all visible things
are made.
This much has been given us by physi-
cal science, following its molecular theor
les and demonstrations.
But now let US examine our inch for its
dynamic elements. How immeasurable
are its possibilities when we seek to COM
prehend its invisible inhabitants. The
higher dynamic science, which is build
ing the "house not made with hands,
upon the foundation of the lower but
- equally necessary physical science,
has revealed the presence OF an invisible,
silent force called the law OF gravity, per-
vading all space and holding all together.
Here in our inch, that silent force is work
ing. Then light, another force, is there,
and sound, magnetism and electricity.
The sound waves of different pitch, per-
haps millions Of them at once in our inch,
.ninSie and pass, but never conflict with
each other. Magnetism is also there, our
compass ever affirms, while the dynamo
and battery reveal the electric fluid.
Science is ever bringing to our minds the
invisible, and what possibilities may not
be revealed as we examine these invis-
IDLE elements of the invisible universe.
Mind is also there in its varied de-
grees of vibration, for the different con-
:. ditions of mind like the different colors,
are only so because of the difference in
the rapidity of vibrations: Red is pro-
duced by slow vibration Of the molecules
same molecule will give q different color.
So with sound; the higher the pitch,
the more rapid the vibration. Thus with
in our inch we may have every shade of
thought and feeling. $50.
1t is demonstrated fact that man is a
unit in vast universe, between which
and himself there exists a sympathetic
relation. When this condition is realized,
then the Christian ideas are made credit
able. How absurd to think that only
the planets are inhabited. Why may not
all space be filled not only with ether but
with higher form of life-ap invisible
universe inhabited by invisible beings?
Is not all of the invisible as well as the
visible universe in our inch of space. and
could we but come in soul communion
with its invisible laws and manifesto
tions, should we not see and hear as the
prophets and seers of old?
All ethics, science and relig ons are
based upon this relation of man to the