The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-27
PROF. sMYTHE's LECTURE.


Prof. Smythe delivered a lecture before
the Universal brotherhood organization yes:
ferday afternoon in the Hinckley block
concerning the breadth OF the movement
represented by the society.
From the ancient PHILOSOPHERS and SCI
ences We learn much about problems which
ence. but whose solutions are to be met
in the traditional and recorded knowledge
of the East" said he. The question OF
the origin of life itself. or its manifesto
an understanding under the theories of to-
day than 1t was under the theories OF thous-
ands OF years ago. There IS absolutely no
ether and the various nominal elements
suggested by ancient wisdom to account
for the origin of matter as We know 1t.
nearly all ancient thinkers to be the uiti-
mate cause OF life. and even in religious
thought this conception holds q place Sci
ence supposeg a condition Of fire-vapor in
the far past. before the qualification into
what We recognize as matter occurred.
In the gradual cooling down that result
ed in the course OF the evolutionary pro-
cess or the creative process. there must
have been a gradual PRECIPITATION OF the
chemical elements out OF their primary
state and as these drops In cosmic tenn
vibration. sometimes happened with great
'Suddenness, the result was that all life
existing in that stage of the worlds life
f wqnd be caught 90 far is physical
Let us understand that this process has
occurred again and again In the past. and
the hopeicssneSs OF the task OF those who
are searching for a missing link In our
present physical conditions VIII be appre-
ciased The missing links belong to the
ethereal stages OF evolution, and as they
creep out into what becomes at each stage
new state OF matter. we have the APP
pearance of new types
Man as an Immortal beng has passed
through all these stages of evolution in the
past. and sums up In his own constitution
the results OF evolution along three dis
finct lines. those of matter In its various
stages, OF force in all its forms, and OF
consciousness in every aspect.
We always have absolute control over
our own destiny, and the observance OF
what are known as the moral and ethical
laws of life bring us under the operation
OF the forces that play through the subtler
phases OF matter and lift US into higher
cohdltlons or consciousness The divine
principle within us. the Lord or soul the
real man, who passes through all experi.
snce, the coordinate principle as science
has II. is master of all the experience Of
the past. and as the soul is born in a new
body, II Is the task of the sou, to subdue
the body TO its own purposes If. on the
other hand we insist on permitting the
body 10 live its own animal life withou,
restraint. we mus. be prepared to abide
by the result of our acts since every in
frlngcmcut OF the law of the higher life
OF the soul Is noted by cur own inner con-
SciousnesS ana we ourselves insis, upon
the restoration OF the violated harmony
We must recognize that the power that
makes for righteousness dweIls In our
selves. and that the longer We take TO real
Ize this fact. the more difficult will ia
the pain of our evolution"