The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-01
THE new PSYCHOLOGY
Mrs. De Vaux-R Roger Lectures
on the New Study.
She is Leader n the Investigation. She
Di cussed The Infinite Mind Of the
Univ rse."

Mrs. Rose M. De Vaux- Royer a leader
in the study of the New Psychology, who
is now living in Raleigh, recently deliv
cred lecture in this city on the work in
which she is so much interested.
1t was at q meeting of one of the book
clubs that Mrs. de Vaux- Roger was invi-
ted to outline the object and work of
the International School of Psychology.
The special subject discussed was 1.-The
Infinite Mind of the Universe" The ad-
dress of Mrs. De Vaux-Royer was in part
as follows:
l do not think there is one in the aL-
dience but has felt that there is an In
finite Intelligence that governs the uni
verso through the agency of inimitable
laws-an all pervading mind that per-
mea tes and controls all things from atoms
to planets, and through which the har-
mony of the universe is preserved.
Is there an infinite, omnicient and om-
nipresent mind that we call God, and to
whom all invocations are addressed in
solemn awe and reverence, that gov
erns all nations of men, as the physical
laws govern all material things.
'An eternal self existent soul
From whence life's issues take their
! start,
A single undivided whole
OF whom each creature forms part,
A God of the granite and the rose
Soul of the sparrow and the bee,
From whom the mighty of Being flows,
Through countless channels, Lord, from
Thee.
That leaps to life in grass and flowers
Through every grade Of being runs,
Till from creations radiant towers
It's glory flames in stars and suns
And thus we recognize absolute mind
of God, the first cause of all effects, orig
inator of all things.
In the opening verses of Genesis we
have the statement that in the beginning
the universal chaos Of elements was sub
ject to the action of an intelligent energy,
working upon, in. and through it. THE
Spirit Of God moved (or was broodirg)
upon the face of the waters"
God is life We live, as the divisible
expression of the individual One.
All nature is under the control of mind
for one great end in view. We are all
units of one great whole, one great body,
one great life, from the same source tend
ing toward the same destiny. We may
arrest ourselves at any moment in this
great sweeping movement onward with the
question How can / best serve the pur-
pose of my place in life here In the ebb
and flow the mounting upward from the
age of muscle to the intellectual age,
and from the latter to the spiritual recog-
milton of the elements that constitute our
higher nature we have a mighty combat
to wage with the foes of the flesh-the
appetitcs, the tendency to adjust ones S
material interests to the Sacrihce OF
the essence of the golden rule, and often
the goal is obscured or lost sight of in
this great rush for f-aggrandisement.
Man must claim his birthright even
as Christ claimed it, II and my father
are one He must recognize himself as
a siritual being created in His image,
which is spirit. OF that substance OF
which creative energy is composed, man
also becomes creator on his OWE plane
and again in the spiritual world for LAS
a man thinketh so is he" Man is con-
stantly thinking. Accident mas have Sug-
gested a new thought, reason seized upon
it as found treasure. reflection
analyzed it and developed thousand new
projects which human intelligence per-
fected by mechanical ingenuity, until to-
day the world is covered by the offspring
of what once only existed in the thoughts
of men. For the construction of a piece
of architecture. painting or poem eacn
is sketched in the mental domain before