The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-07
LOST IN THE BoTToMLEsS PIT. By Rev. ]. Howard Cashmere, From the
 Balance Publishing Company Denver.


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 Here, despite the ominous and wholly misleading title of the book, will be found some surprisingly good nuggets of thought mixed with a tumble of theories, and metaphysical discussions that serve at times to per- plex and mystify the humble seeker after truth. The author rather sweep ingly announces the book to he "A Revelation forming Working Hypo- thesis for the Solution of Every Prob lem of Life and Mind" After such a wholesale bill of fare one Is led to expect much that Is Illuminating even to ordinary mortals and as ihe author further announces himself to be a professor of hypnotlsm, mesmer- Ism, telepathy. clairvoyance and allied psychic phenomena, the. way seems at once open for developments The preface sounds a warning to doubters and the sceptical, for 1t proclaims, at the outset. that every new conception of truth Is scoffed at, insta ncing eS- periences met with by Calico. Coper- nlcus, Columbus and in our day Edi- son In offering the world certain theo- ries. Placing himself In the company of such great ones of earth the au- thor, apparently apprehendIng some cavlling at his theories, takes pleasure in noting that the doubters of new thought, new Ideas, etc. in these later days are a little shy in rushing into the arena when new prophet ap- pears, Moreover he holds that cayil- CTS should frst know where they are at. Accordingly the author has fire auently quoted prominent authors both atheists" and theists and has gradually led up to the propositions presented in the book by giving the reader" by easy stages, "a general Knowledge of those sciences which have direct relation to the subject of the authors essays
 This somewhat large contract being disposed of to the authors satisfac- ton he goes on to say: "One night in November of this past year, arose shortly after midnight with an unac- countable impulse, and while but partly awake wrote the lines in meter. which l present in Part Second In my endeavor to solve the full meaning of those lines, written as m inspira- tion, the propositions which am about to present concerning the ego or spirit of man, were evolved"
 Moreover. the author reverently re- marks, like all who have realized their oneness with the Great All and have boen the recipient of His divine messages of light and love, I am filled with the desire 10 lead others in that Light of Truth which is Eternal
 The author now plunges Into the heart of his discussion on he course of which 1t appears, he says, that "the ether Is the God substance which fills this great infinite atom. In any direc- tion we may go and find our God for He entirely surrounds us.' The su- thor further defines his books objec, to be Ito present such clear con. ception of the All, and of the hosts oi atoms or egos, which are separated from 1t, that each and every atom may become once more in harmony with that great All And thus from that very harmony, which I have posted to be the Secret of all Attrac. ton may be drawn once more bacl to the All"
 Following comes disposition or spirit energy, force, chemical affinity etc, and references to theories of Sii William Crookes, Haeckle's Riddle O the Universe, Newtons kinetic theor, of Substance, J. G. Nogt's 'pyknotil theory of substance, concerning whlcl discussion the author announces tha he has discovered that the ego o man dwells in the right of the tw, central lobes of thee brain" and 'H surrounded by a host of other atoms which, with 1t, are encased in tha small bony cavity situated at the righ center of the head" Haeckle's Rid dle of the Universe Is now quote from liberally as to the process o the incarnation of the ego of mar Proceeding. the author proclaims wtl prophetic fervor If then, We accep the proposition that the ego of man 1
 
 which, through the Light of Truth God given, I now proclaim, then ther Is no death. Do you hear? l say there Is no death, boldly asser without fear of successful contradic ton, that science through It's dem onstration of the utter impossibillt of the destruction of one atom of sub stance, has positively proved tha there Is no such thing as death. Tn conception and belief in death s tn grossest and most absurd superstito that ever clouded the consciousness of man"
 The foregoing gives the drift an tendency of the reverend author book. Incidentally 1t may be adde the author In speaking of cases C lapses of memory quotes freely frol the New York Suns interesting ac count of the remarkable case of tn dual existence for personality an transition of Rev, T. c. Hanna of tn state which lasted two months; an speaks interestingly of personal e, perience of his own In his youth Whe he frequently experienced ''illumnf ton" On such occasions he felt tn; he was something separate and di tinct from his body or even his brai and he describes his mental battl, with the demon" of fever which pc vaded his waking hours In his fri quent attacks of sickness and how succeeded in retaining mental csntr of himself in his warning of though that struggled for mastery.
 A large part of the book is devote to a poem entitled The Vision, ar Part Second consists of essays,