The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10

Lntus al AdSL. all LQluG8 OF EARN &un SKY
Shall know no God but AE-no name but I!
We are one fam'Iy-each a separate part
OF one great Mind and one sll-pulsing Heart,
For humankind are children Of one Womb
Brothers In life and equal in the tomb
The consanguineous tie 'twtxt you and me
Is close and strong. tho strangers We may be;
So King and slave are one beneath the earth
One thro' all time, in life, or death, or birth
There is no difference 'twixt the man and worm
save one can walk while one is made TO squirm
One has imbtbed more substance, earth and
soul,
One has a mind TO that first frzil degree
Which men call instinct" Twas the same
had it once and 50 did you: twas when
We were ebabies-undeveloped men
The worm grew not. The Universal Mind
It's soul and shape TO something small confined.
Else woulc that worm a MONSTER thing have
Imbibing an earth's life for it alone:
Then would the norDa, Itself, have been the God
All else but it--unanimated sod -
But Life's great Source eXpends with its
All cannot 1--we hence all. in turn. must die.
Life thus its force distributes with the need
More mind 70 men, more s1bstdaee 70 the steed,
50 death contributes 70 the surplus force.
And man and worm pursue the self same
course
All things By circle travel. We who live
To Lies Sum Total must our fractions give;
Like yonder stream whose course 1 here
discern.
We wind our Way-and to the Sea return.
Merged with one Mind our individual part
Shall feel each pulse Of that grand Mother
heart:
One bond Of love. one lie Of human blood.
Unites the world in one vast Brotherhood
Each thought some fibre OF the brain contracts;
II is deprived by Error. fed by Facts;
The constant thinking Of some evil thought,
Gives minds tendency with evil fraught;
The first contraction does 50 long increase
That this one thought suggests itself with ease;
Our innate tendency must give away
To that desire-thOught-nur by day;
Thus Habit grows. and Error fnds its root.
Whence grows the UpAs-tree of poisoned fruit.
The thoughts we think thus shape our lot and
fate
Self is the Satan whose vile pow'r we hate
The cripple and the idiot are the things
Which parent-eyil and not nature brings:
Esrth's poor defOrmed look upward to their God
And curse the darkness Of the pathway trod:
Their shruuken forms are made OF perfect clay
But shaped by parents who forgot the way.
Man is immortal, 50 why curse his shape =
Revere the Mind, be 1t OF man or ape (!
Mind is the guidance Of the countless stars
The pOw'r that makes-the after-pow'r that
The Great Designer and the thing it makes
The thing which seeming gives and seeming
takes
A vast Condition-nothing more nor less
With neither cause to sanction. curse nor bless
We are miniature conception Of the Whole,
Each man judge and doctor OF his soul
Mind is supreme, with pow'r and reason vast
AL things in one-hence by no part surpassed
Omnipotent-omniscient- in all
Divided into parts il must recall:
Co cooperative. and dependent still
On every part that is required to I'LL.
Yet naught contains a vacuum The Mind
i Is all of substance and to such confined;
1t is material tho we see il not;
Eject and Cause are Of substantial thought:
That which is Nothing cannot Something be-
But there is substance which no eye can see;
The psychic substance. or the =ental force.
Is that which governs all creations course;
/ 1t is dependent on the easer earth
And manifest in every death and birth;
Being not substance. ii could not exist.
Earth would have naught its chaaces TO assist
/ II Something. 1t is Substance; being so.
1t must be Mind-the highest pow'r We know;
/ And. being Mind. il must be part Of me,
\ And a part OF all Infnity -
Infinity-etemal-prove that
Am made immortal and not born to die
/ A creature co-exiStent with all things.
Which seeming death TO first condition brings
And in that first Condition shall stand
Myself God-with God on every hand
IT. SHELLEY SUTTON.
Los Angeles, Cal. March End. 1903.