Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-04

ViAonlcss soul is the lest soul. Tne
soul which has built about ii tho mgr
/ fence Of present achievements; OF
/ present joys. Of present duties, and
secs nothing beyond. Is plrcady lost
Were | 10 set "a limit TO any one
/ Of YOU this morning / would to that
/ oNtcnt damn you. Your dreams a.,
/ not tu bc even limited 10y your pos
/ sihlitias for nothing is impossible.
This then is the great outstanding
/ thot of ,hIs hour. Without a vision
b you perish
j viii lift mine eyes unto the hills
| whence cometh my help
/ Sow faith is the substance oi
/ things hoped for the evidence oi
Without a vision the people will
/ perish.
What l. a Vision?
! My answer compcls to the state
mcut there are two kinds Of visions -
| mental and spiritual
"l. Mental Among the mental
visions there is first the Illusion.
GD "Illusiun. The consciousness
Of things present in a form different
! than what they really are.
illusion rs false perception. II IS
not false report. our physical senses
do not lie to us We simply interpret
their message falsely The sens, can
bc relied upon 10 act properly, but our
mental reaction upon the report
which the sense brought in is often
times incorrect and unreliable. Now
] pause to be elemental for a moment.
The SENSE Of touch, sight. smell.
taste, hearing, when they come in
contact with the physical world inn
mcrfately bring in report OF the
thing as 1t Is. Say the object is a tu-c.
touch rcports soft, velvety, with petal
like form. Smell reports, rich, frag-
rant, ROSY Sight reports red petals
with yellow or white center-thesc
sense all report at once and we with
our past experience label their report
this, Rose at hand" Thi Is the
message Of the senses DO you
ever report falsely? | say not. II We
should say that our senses report
'rroncously then we would live in u
world of physical chaos. If we can't
rely upon our senses to report cor
rcctly then red might be green and
the trains would go crashing into each
other. Round may be square and
architecture and mechanics go all to
pieces, gas odors might be interpreted
as fragrant perfumes and death fol-
low No, our God given senses may
W Itll'u uIous ne trouble, Wncn
there is any, lies with our interpreta-
tion OF the reports which these senses
bring in.
Illusion n False Vision
Now an Illusion is an improper
reception of reports brought in. IL is
a false vision.
y 20 along the lonesome road some
dark night | pass near the old coun-
Try graveyard. \ man who was killed
ia an awful manner was buried there
a week before. Before I get to TN.
spot | begin to whistle. but suddenly
my whistle is frozen upon my lips. my
hair rises, am chained to the ground.
NY fee refuse TO move for moment.
for there rises out of that graveyard a
tan spectral figure My next impuls-
Is to fly. but my sober good sense
says investigate ! become a scientist
! march right up to this ghostly fig
ure and find it is the tall tombstone
Now that was an Illusion NV senses
reported correctly tall, white, human
shape, but my associations with that
SPOT the thots already in my mind,
all the ghost stories ever heard. my
helplessncss in the presence OF the
unseen forces that mrked there, all
led me to interpret that tombstone as
some person clothed in hasty rcsur-
tection garments. The fault was not
with the report ~ the senses, but with
my mental vision. NV Interpretation
OF what was actually there.
AN Illusion is a false vision--a
false pcrccptlon-a deception which
We practice upon ourselves
t2) Iiallucination. Now hallucina-
tons have nothing to do with serses.
Ihey are purely of the mind, purely
OF the imagination. The senses bring
In no report, there is nothing for the
senses to report upon. SO an nal
lucination is the consciousness of
something present which does not eN-
lSt at all An hallucination IS per-
ccpton not a sight. IL is diseaseI