The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-06

" these MOmeutOuS
our particular little point in space
l seems to be quivering from CEN
re to circumference from the ter
ifc impulse of current events, when
he very face of the earth bids fair
% be shorn Of its familiar visase by
lone inscrutable, malevolent physi'
ognomist even the man in the
street" stops to ask WHY? What Is
It all about? ,,
The man higher up" ever gholy
present with the universal solvent
Tor every human problem-eager TO
Tell lust how it all happened ana
how it is bound to end-has had TO
reverse himself so often that ne Is
frankly content to attribute his fall
bility to some mysterious or occult
influence. Surely some inscrutaDle
rorce-some secret powers at
work setting aside normal and Ioef
cal issues and syllogisms refuse 70
work because of preposterous OF n'"'
den premises!
The man Of the hour" is ne VINO
can give some plausible explanation
for things which cannot be explained
by the ordinary process OF reason
ing,
What Is There in It!p
Which sets the real student OF life
and its actlyities-its origins po'
tencies and purposes-the true delv-
er into the arcana of nature-to ask:
Is there something in these so-called
occult sciences? Have the stars any
thing to do with the plans and pur-
poses Of human and cosmic destiny?
He sets himself to discern the face
of the heavens" and here his logic
will work if he rears his syllogism
on the accepted postulates and prem
Uses of scIence-just ordinary physt'
cal science-the "profane" science OF
the occultist.
This real life-student seeking truth
for truths sake, begins his re-
searches with Newtons formulation
of the law OF gravity: Every parti'
Gle of matter in the universe at
tracts every other particle of matter
with a force directly proportional to
its quantity Of matter" thus estab'
fishing an intercosmic relationship
between each and every unit com.
posing the sum total of universal
substance-matter-a sympathetic re-
lationship so intimate, SO insepara-
bic, that no action or movement can
take place in any one of the con-
stituent particles without producing
an effect on every other particle Of
matter and acting at least as sec
ondary cause of changes in the econ.
omy Of the whole" Accordingly
nature is "a tissue of mere relations
p-of constant aux and change"
Then our tuth.seeker hears Her.
bert Spencer: when the explorer
Of nature secs that molecules on
earth pulsate in harmony with mole.
cules in the stars, when there is
forced upon him the inference that
every point in space thrills with an
infnity Of vibrations passing through
1t in all directions, the conception
toward which he tends is much less
that of a universe of dead matter
than that OF universe everywhere
alive"
There Is No Dead Matter"
So science, continually reversing
ltpslf, today comedies that we
live in a cosmos pulsating with
vibrant life, that there is no dead
matter" all is essentially ONE-held
in suspension in space under estab'
llshed laws Of attraction, repulslon,
polarity, cohesion, gravity-laws
founded on universal principles eter.
nally involving and evolving through
nature and all its forms, Thus
modern science confirms the ancient
philosophers In the hermetic axiom,
"As above. so below; as is the outer
so is the inner, There is but one law.
He that worketh is One. Nothing is
small, nothing is great in the divine
economy"
In further search for authority"
for the mutual relations of man and
cosmos he finds Aristotle, Hippoc'
rates, Placidlus, Ptolemy, Philadel'
plus, Cardan and Tycho Brahe say.
ing, TO deny the influence Of the