Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-10
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sort of matter. only finer, incomparably
finer.
What sort of forces work through min
erals. with their atfinities, fatigues, rests !
Even there is something higher than the
mere physical. What sort through flowers.
with the sensitive plant, the susceptible
morning glory and sunfiower? Something
still higher than the physical! Mnat
through the animal sensations? what
through a mans heart and head? And
what is the difference between the forces
that move the saint and the sage and
those that move the savage and the GRIM
inal and the idiot? The former are merely
higher. purer. stronger.
There
Was d man named Pythagoras He was
an ancient Greek philosopher. He had won
derful powers. He understood nature In
clear and farseeing way that is mysterious
and amazing to the rest of us with duller
vision. lie was not merely an investigator
along beaten tracks of science. He discov-
cred hidden laws, fathomed secret proc
esses. solved natures riddles. 1amblichus
Was one of his pupils and wrote of the uses
that Pythagoras made of music: Music was
considered greatly to contribute to health
if used in appropriate manner; the med
iCine obtained through music was called
publication Such a remedy he employed
at the vernal season. Placing person who
played the Tyre in the center OF q circle,
those that surrounded him sang certain
paens through which they We're seen 10 De
delighted and to become elegant and orderly
in their manners. Melodies We're devised
against the passions of the soul as well
as against dependency and iamentatlon;
other melodies he employed against anger,
rage and every other alteration of the
soul. One kind of modulations acted as a
remedy against desires.
His followers called him not by his name.
but said the divine" and after his death
they said only that man. There also was
q saying among them that three creatures
were bipeds-men. birds and third thing.
The third thing referred to Pythagoras.
They realized that Pythagoras was sort
OF different being from them, although a
man.
But Pythagoras himself did not hold that
he was essentially different from other peo-
pie. He devoted all his public career to the
educating of the powers of men. And the
famous golden verses that left half
written as a relic of his sayings give the
rules for common folk to acquire all the
| common and civil and political virtues and
| then TO unfold their divine faculties.
His viewpoint seemed that of college
| man over grammar school or high school
students.
New Thought
| And Christian science and auto-sugses-
| ton and divine science. and mental science,
and other systems of mind rule are the
| testimonies of the nineteenth century to
| It's belief in some superphysical forces with
| in us. They preach our superiority over
/ physics and chemistry and biology. They
| deal with subtler matter.
| While they claim to be working their
wonders all over America, all over the
earth We only can acknowledge that there
are higher forces than the ordinary forces
of the ordinary science. There are great
| forces that many people are laying hold of
and working miracles with and evolving
to greater and greater power.
IL 10 "a peopip n healed and ra me
allayed with these higher forces. Perhaps
you and l have no pains and no diseases.
or perhaps we have not had ours cured in
this way But We are told of those who
have.
Sorrow can come and go. and calamities
may befalI those who lead the higher life.
but somehow they are mistaken. Disasters
are not to them as they are to other folk.
And in their defeats they are as serene as
in their successes Their successes, how
ever grow even greater and their failures
wane. They say that a new power unveils
throughout them.