The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-04

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able; or that man will not eventually
come into his own. 1t is the ignorant
habitual scoffer, the anarchic religion
ist, the sceptic for scepticism's sake,
the iconoclast who gives nothing in
return, who are the evil ones; they are
the real enemies of both science and
religion, and the inert wooden plugs in
the cogs of Life's progressive and evo-
lutionary wheel.
IF one or other Of the million of
microbes that inhabit each of. our
bodies was trying to generalize his i'm
pressions, could he suspect for mo-
ment, as he floated in the blood of our
veins, devoured our muscles, or made
his way into our bones, that this body,
like his own, was regulated by an or
ganic unity? But such is our relation
to the planetary universe. The sun
the great heart of his system and source
of life-shines on the orbits of the
planets, and he himself moves in ST.
dereal system that is vsster still. That
there exists in our cosmos a dynamic
element, imponderable and invisible,
independent of matter, visible and
ponderable, and acting upon it, and
that in that dynamic element there is
an intelligence superior to our own, no
one in justice to his being can deny.
Ths most viyidly truthful thing in old
scriptures is: "The fool saith in his
heart there is no God"
An intellectual law controls the
universe in which our planet holds an
humble place. The much abused Ma
dame Blavatsky said that, "thoughts
are things they certainly are; they
stand for what we are today. "Know
thyself, this Is the source Of all wis
dom;r the ancients inscribed it in gold
en- letters over the temple of their gods.
Linn@us declared it to be the essential,
indisputable distinction of man above
all other creatures. If we look for the
purpose of our existence we cannot
possibly find it outside of ourselves.
Even the NazareEe said, "The king
dom of heaven is within YOU"
Herbert Spencer in his last and
latest work; infers that thought,
mind, or consciousness is "an individ-
ualized and specialized form of Infinite
and Eternal Energy, which transcends
our knowledge and Imagination
at death its elements lapse into the
Infinite and Eternal Energy, whence
they were derived" "The conscious
ness, that without origin or cause, In
finite space has ever existed, and must
ever exist-produces in me, a feeling
from which l. shrink" "Its elements
lapse into the infinite and eternal
energy, whence they were derived
generalization, whose particulars the
next few centuries will manage to
render clear. He is not so far off the
| track as some of his recent critics
would have us believe. In the SINGER
ity of his science he has admitted his
misunderstanding most of his
detractors would not think of doing,
much less do. Orthodox religion is too
narrow to contain mans science, while
materialism is too narrow to hold his as.
plratlons and desires. One can perceive
-one may almost predict-that the reli-
gion ofthe future will be scientific; will
be founded on knowledge of psychicaI
facts. This religion will have one
great advantage over all that have gone
before it-unity. Today a Jew or
Protestant cannot believe in the mir
acles at Lourdes. T Buddhist cam
not accept the positive dogmas of the
| Western world. The Mohammedan
reviles the "dog of Christian" and
many OF. the "great unwashed" are alb
solutely Indifferent to it all. None of
these cults or religions, with their
rami6cations will exist in religion
founded on general scientific solution
of psychical problems. The associa-
tion of ideas. in an individual gives
birth to new idea; that in turn is
fused with the sum of other individ
ual conceptions, an SO on od 5inem.
In the last analysis the product con-
tains more truth than error, as its fu-
ture application willdemonstrate. But
back of all this is Federation -tolera-
tion, first, last, and all the time.
KIN.