The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-26


strong man physically and men
tally, but he is dwarfed and
stunted spiritually; and because
he is so, he thinks there is no
spiritual truth In the universe;
as the man born blind might
think there was no light of sun
or moon or star.
Fortunately there are hum
dreds of brilliant minds ready to
give their testimony to the con-
tradiction of this mans state
ments that earth and human
Life are accidents, and that
chance rules ali things, and
that there is no life beyond this
life, and no realm beyond earth.
One of the greatest men who
ever lived on earth, a great SCI
enlist, a great humanitarian, a
great scholar, was SwedhnhorE.
And this man gave up position
and power and place among the
ambitious people Of earth to- de-
vote hts mature years to telling
the world the marvellous Facts
he had learned about Realms
within Realms and Life beyond
Life.
When he was dying at tine
advanced age of SO he was Of
fered all the solaces, of ortfudox
religion if he would say that he
had not heard these voices ar
seen these visions. "But + did
see and did hear" he replied.
And those were almost his last
words.
Swedenborg's opinions on
politics or science Left no
marked impression on the worId1
very few people even know that
he was renowned in those dayH.
But Swedenborgfs great reI
gious philosophy is the cunrfon
and the strength of thousands
of intellectual and useful h11nam
beings.
There is an old Hindu phras&
which reads thus:
He who knows not, and
knows not that he knows
not, he Is fool, shun him.
He who knows not, an6
knows that he knows not
he is simple; teach him
He who knows, and knows
not that he knows, he is
asleep; wake him.
He who knows, and knows
that he knows, he ID
wise; follow him
Swedenborg was the latter.
He was the perfect triangle
Great in all ways There are
thousands of other human ba-
ings living, and thousands who
have lived, strong of intellect
clear of mind, who have gfveri
to the world their testimony of
absolute knowledge of the ex-
istence of invisible worlds about
us, just as travellers on our earth
report different conditions and
different scenes in northern and
southern and Arctic and equa-
torial locations. So the various
seers observe various conditions
in the spiritual worlds. There
is just as much variety in these
realms as in Our own, and each
seer sees according to his own
powers of sight and according to
his own mental and spiritual de-
velopment
The architect, on earth, who is
absorbed wholly in buildings,
takes a walk with an artist who
cares only for nature, and one
returns unable to tell anything
about the plants, trees, flowers
or scenery, but everything about
the style of houses he has seen;
while the artist has not even
noticed a house, but is filled
with facts concerning the land
scape, the streams, the trees, the
verdure.
Precisely so with the man
who has the open eye in spiritual
realms. I know a quiet, indus
trious business man, respected
by his fellows, loved by his asso-
ciates, who seeks neither glory
nor riches, and who is ever ready
to serve his friends or his eng
mics with good deeds. This man
has the open eye and he Is privt-
legged in being able to see the
invisible realms and the invisible
helpers who move about among
us. Naturally possessed of the
clear seeing eye, he has deveI-
oped the power of the initiate"
by high thinking and living and
preparation. There are q few
such on earth. and to meet and
talk with them is to gain a great
spiritual uplift
Without faith In other states
Of existence this life at IT'S