Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

As
Water seeks the level of its source, so men
seek the level Of their origin. That divine
stuff of which we are made, poured down
through the vehicles of the universe, rises
again to Its original divinity. 1t Is natural
for US to rise. We rise collectively and we
rise individually. We rise out of our AMI
nallsms, and ignorances, and egoisms INTO
our humanities. and knowledge and aitro-
isms, and goodness.
Yesterday we gave an eye for an eye.
tooth for q tooth. Today. when we are
smitten on one cheek. we turn the other
also. Yesterday we thirsted for Nemesis
and sweet revenge; today we realize 1hat
vengeance Is mine saith the Lord or hosts
and we leave vengeance and all results
with rha Lord Yesterday we rose in right
eous Indignation today We Sit quieeiy IA
righteous peace Yesterday we yearneo ioi
automobiles and brownstone fronts; TO-DAY
we find these insubstantial and eVanesceh,
In oomnarison with the solidities eternal
OF wisdom, of love. OF spiritual graces- es-
terday the world was for me; today am
for the world. Yesterday 1 just groWed,
today I am in training, am IN c ,,,
I am being cultured; am being lived
Whenever we find ourselves passing OUT
of the self-centered into the other centereo
we may know that we are rising whenever
we find ourselves attracted TO the thliiss
eternal and essential and lastfngly worth
while we may know that we are rising
Whenever we are attracted to the spirltuai
things we may know that we are rising. =.
As we rise we are subject TO dlnerent
laws and live under different conditions IN
another world. The material man lives III
the material world and is subject TO ma
terial laws; the spiritual man lives IN the
spiritual world and is subject TO spiritual
laws, is ruled by the things OF the spirit
feeds on the things of the spirit ana hVes
in the spiritual world. Just as In the ma
terIsI world we use material implements,
needles and engines to work with, so we
use InteIlectu al implements, analyses, syn
theses, comparisons deductions ana con,
illusions when we work in the intellectual
world And so in the spiritual Worid we
use the things of the spirit
THE savage knows nothing OF forensics
and quod era demonstrandum. because ms
intellectual faculties never have been cur
tIyated: not because there are no things or
+he intellect. So the man who knows not
the things of the spirit knows them not be-
cause he has not developed his spiritual
faculties, and not because there are no
things of the spirit. To those who have
risen into the things OF the spirit they have
become real We rise in different ways,
some longer, some shorter, but In the end
we all rise to the one divine source whence
ali have sprung
ALL
Pleasure. all good a sociologist says, con-
sist IN the normal exercise of the faculties
All pain consists in some restraint put
upon this exercise. We all must be occu-
pied to be happy. When we are not occu-
pied we have ennui. one of the most trying
OF pains. To give rein to our faculties, to
express our forces, Is only normal and nat
uraL To repress our forces Is to fetter
buds that would blossom. Work and play
are both the exercise OF our faculties. AT
heart they are one.
The writer's work is the musicians play.
The musicians work Is the writer's play
We can work at our play; we can play al
our work Work is only dignified play. 1t
Is play grown up Baby animals in their
play, 1t has been pointed out, exercise the
faculties which later on they viii use in
their work. Baby channels play at leaping
and jumping: baby beavers at building;
baby cats at housing: baby beasts of prey