Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-03-08

envy of faith; and / verify believe
the rediscoyerer of true religion, with
an authentic message of hope and
comfort for the human race, will be
the work not OF the priest in his
shaded cloister, but of the scientist
on the watch.tower of knowledge. Il
believe that in the realm of pure
science, in the department of cold
reason. apart altogether from the
texts of the theologians and the
dreams ofthe poets, we are on the
eve of discoveries that will change
our whole outlook upon the problems
of time and eternity that will exalt
faith into moral certainty, and wiring
hope from the very jaws of despair.
| am more skeptical than many in
regard to what is commonly known
as revealed" religion. have no
use for theological dogma. Lam
afraid that if | had been destined
for the church. where some of my
friends even now would like to see
me, could not honestly have signed
one of the thirty.nine articles or sub
scribed 10 a single cause of the West
minister Confession of Faith.
| am not, in the common accepta-
ton. n religious" man. But this
stupendous war has set me thinking
searching and inquiring: and in all
hNr In oil
erence, say to the weeping widow
to the stricken mother, to all who
are bent beneath the wars great load
of sorrow: BE of good cheer, for the
dawn of your comfort is at hand"
AWAY WITH cREEDS
AND DoBMAs
The soul demands surer comfort
than is to be found in hackneyed
Scripture texts, in dogmas unverified
in icy formularies and stony creeds
Faith must be fed with knowledge
Hope must be founded in fact.
But what kind of knowledge, what
form of fact is 1t that is driving on
the world? | have said it will come
to us through the channel of reason
and science. But It will be science
and reason applied to the super.
physical. So far, our great biologists
and chemists, with about two ex.
ceptions, have never yentured beyond
the things of this world this life.
1t was an eminent Harley street sur
geon who once said: 81 have cut open
many human bodies in my time, but
| have never found any trace of a
soul" 1t was considered a smart,
convincing epigram. But you won't
find the human soul in the appendix
or the bladder. It's only physical
manifestation is in the eyes. And il
is for the scientist of the future to
locate it, analyse 1t, follow il.
THE SECRET OF
THE UNIVERSE
| have long formed my own view
of the form the discovery will take
Putting all legend and allegory on
one side. | am convinced that the
universe is pcrmeated by an ocean
of vital force-life huid-which is
ever flying into and out of Cat birth
and death) every living thing-vivi.
flying, magnetizing 1t, according to
its rcceptivity. Let me explain: An
Ethiopian couple marry; there arrives
the time when the little pickaninny
is "quickened'-that is to say, when
its human magnetism Is sufficiently
developed to attract to itself the
necessary vitalizing fluid to give IL
life and being.
But 1t is course material, and very
little ofthe force is caught. Still, IL
gives life" and II lasts till the mag.
net gives out, and then flies back,
TO the great sea. II is
never lost, and in that sense the
soul OF the meanest living thing is
It is like taking a thimble.
'ul of water from the ocean, keeping
Il back. You couldn't say Il was
ost: but ii could never be found
'bNbhs III tilS Cdbt i UHNb assumed
hat the good little niger boy never
lid any real, conscious harm or good |
n life; consequently his vital fluid |
vas neither Initiated nor refined.
THE EFFECT OF
ENVIRONMENT
Now take the case of child higher
y In the human scale First OF all,
Will attract to itself. and retain.
larger quantity OF life fluid than
Id the little blackamoor. and then
later years the fluid. or force, will
o purified or detoriorated by what
no Buddhists call the Karma-the
ood or evil influence OF the life:
nd when physical death comes Il
Ill flow back into what Dickens
He'd the sea OF immortality which
'ws all round the world'--a phrase
hich caught my fancy as a very
Jung man, and set me thinking.
Well, so far you will say, we are
long way of the answer to our
estion. Wait a moment. Up TO
present have takon the cases
two types--both ordinary normal
,nit,.a ~ tk.t.