The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-17
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Hypnotism and Spirittalism.

soul, anu lnere IS no Sou, tHefoioTe
 the materiaiist has not difficulty in ac-
 cepting evolution. On this point
 quite agree with Felix Adler. If we
 are descended from an anthropoid ape
 on the physical side, we are not de-
 seconded from him, in any strict sense
 of the word. on our rational side; for
 as life Is born of life, so reason is born
 of reason: and if the anthropoid ape
 does not possess reason as we possess
 1t, 1t cannot be said that on our ra- , tional side we are his progeny It strikes me that if there is miss ing link in the chain of physical evo- lution there is surely a missing link in the chain of rational evolution. The highest faculty in man Is intu- ition (soul perception1; the highest faculty in the animal--or in the ani- nal nature of man-is instinct. 1 do not think with my friend, the late Dr. Hudson, that intuition is instinct of higher growth think there Is great gulf between them; that the animal possesses instinct only. while man possesses both instinct and in- tuition; the instinct resident in the spinal cord, or modulla oblongata, or | the solar plexus; the intuition. soul faculty. sag >
 (man) the breath of life and he became a living soul Whether you accept this statement or not, the fact remains that man is either an evolved brute or an involuted spirit.
 The New Thought people are of the opinion that the soul is located in the solar plexus. I fear they are very apt to judge from physical symptoms. and, thereby, get the solar plexus and pneumogastric nerve slightly mixed. If the soul has 6 local habitation- a4 hal a finn-.-iyt the s nIimAn body, I would prefer giving 1t room higher up than the called abdom- inal brain.
 As God cannot be located in any particular place in the universe. but is omnipresent. so the soul of man Ca spark of the Divine) is not located in any particular part of the body, but permeates the entire being ~ : Is God a personality? I think so. But you should not aconfoanda the terms personality and 2 9individuaiity. Our friends know us individually, but few. if any, know us personally. We may sense ones personality (by the sixth sense), but it cannot be coEnized by the ordinary senses. Personality is felt; individuality is seen. We may feel Gods presence; we cannot see it.. We speak of one's strong personality" also. of having ga personal acquaint- anoe,pg etc., These terms signify much more than 'fndividuality" and 'indi- avidual acquaintance" SIS Is man made in Gods image? That depends upon your view point An thropologically? No. Psychologically. Yes.
 God is mans inspiration. Man IS Gods expression. As the soul is im- manent (indwelling) in the body but does not depend upon the body for it's existence; in like manner God is inn l manent in the universe, but does not depend upon the universe for his ex- istence. The universe is not God (that is Pantheism) but part of it. or an expression of God. We are not God (that is new thought but part of God Therefore, in the words of the late Dr. Hudson: ''The Deity Is a divine immanence without nantheism, and personality without anthro- pomorphism.
 As regards the tendency to substi- tute nature for God. I would say. in stead, that God works through nature. and nature is the spirit of God at work.
 Will not the study of psychology in- | terfere with ones religious beliefs That depends. As for myself I can | truly say that nothing else has ever l given me so true an insight into the | character and teachings of Christ, i. G., | as he taught them and as he lived | them; but we must recognize the fact | that there is a wide difference in terminology. Theology Is not neces- | sarily Christology nor is churchianity ! necessarily Christianity.
 When Nathaniel asked: Gan any | good come out of Nazareth?" he little | thought that from that hamlet should come one whose teachings would in- | fuence the minds of men for all time, and whose code of ethics would abide