The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-06-08

and mind apparently being used inter
chanReahlv. : have dwelt somewhat
upon what I understand ~ the human
mind. because consider IL % the ut
most importance. Tor you 10 recognise
The distinction between mind and I'M
tolicet Al least you become ensnarcd
IA vicious iuteiiectualism. % use WI
tam James forcefui term. Let me
give you an Illustration % show you
some % tho danger.
Robert Browning. the most philosD-
1hicai Il an the English poets since
Shakespeare. n that remarkabls poem
Paraeeisua. written when me author
was only twenty-five. Paraceisus
started cat % conquer the whole world
~ knowledge. Aspiring % al knowi-
edge, be believed that when ho attained
Il be would have unlimited power. He
SHUT out from his life. love, emotion
ana Cod. Intellect became hls god
and the quest for ali knowledge has
sole aim.
As you will remember. the poem
tells Us that during this lffe long quest
lor universal knowledge which was g
give him all power. Paraeelsua meets
Z ahhfa Aaka AssM hHAAAa MAAHN# aA#e#A So AtAN
4lametrically opposite % that 81 Para
celsius. Apriie would love indefinitely
and Be loved. aspiring % attain every
form ~ love. lie cared not for knowi-
sdge. but worahipped love and beauty,
and believed that through them he
would attain supreme happiness. he
convincea PaFacelsus that love a what
he wants. while Parsocisus convincsa
Aprile that knowledge waa his lack.
Zach realized that he was tho compile
mont Of the other. that knowledge -
% no value without love. and that love
without knowledge was blind. Both
ParaceIaus and Aprfle had failed in
their quest. seemingly because they
had not combined their aims and
Joined love and knowledge. intellect
and feeling.
Undoubtedly this was partially true.
T bat IL was not the whole truth
. knowledge and love. intellect and the
T feelings must be Joined together. must
20 hand ia hand else each viii faii,
bat thla Is not sufficient. VIII must
not be lett out. but Il requisite In or
7 der 20 direct tho intellect and the feel
inrs Alright in their QUEST and show
thcm that he goal o. happiness ca
I be reached only through duty ard
service.
As Paracelsus just prior 20 hts
death declared 20 his friend, Festua.
there vas a time when he wa happy
and wher Featus asked him when that
Time was paraceiaua replied, When.
y but the time / vowed myself 20 man..
In those magnificent lines Just before
the poena closes, ParacelHus exclaimed,
\ Let men regard me aad the poet dead
long aro. who loved too rashly; and
shspo forth a third and better temper
cd spirit, warmed By both But must
forbear 10 quote further. Let me urge
YOU ID read the poem fer yourselves
ana take 10 heart the great lesson
which It teaches. In this poem Brswn-
ing. the poet. was the procursor %
I Hereaon. the philosopher, who tells uH
In hls Creative Evolution that there
are things that intelligence alone o.
able 10 seek, but which. BY itstf q
will never find. These things iastinct
aiawo can find; but Il vii never see
them What o. this but The grcat
lesson which Browning has taught in
his poem7
Il have now given you tho first
thought which I would impress upon
you that the human mind oomprists.
intellect. feeling and viii. ana u We
! ignore any one q these great factors,
VIC do - az our peril but we SIN
have 10 determine what mind rea'iy a..
what Il does. and how IL operates, or
manifesta itself
"Afer reading widely and pondering
over the subject Tor many yeare, / have
reached the conclusion that Emeftpn
proclaimed a great truth when he an
nouucea hia doctrine ~ the universal
mind. - the ovcr-soui - ~ generally
calls ia So far as I have been ahlr 90
find this theory was first promulgated
81 Plato and elaborated ~ Fiptiuua and
proeius. ~ an a. whom Emerson was
greatly Influenced Saturated with their
teaehInr. Emerson after breeding over q
through tong years. gives uE the doctrine
n ita present form. Very conci2e'Y
stated there g. bat ono mind n The unit
verse which = the creator r. an thiugn.
therefore ia unlsernai omnipreHsnt. um-
nipateut ard omniaciont. This universal
mind Is poured into are wiven 20 every
man in greater ~ less degree IN proper
zion 10 hin varying capacity ~ rccep-
tvitv. The difference. then. - in De-
gree and not On kind. Does this seem
startling o. perhaps even HscFlilEicrs O.
vou2 Let me hasten % explain.
I'VE are taught ~ Holy viii that man
was created in Gods image. This can-
not mean physical Coz me are further
toia that God q ~ rlt Very wen, thsr.
nereating man in bis image man must
have been created spirit therefore &C.
spirIt he g. the image q God. Are we
not further taught ~ the Bible that We
. are the Temps % the living God. ~ a.
N ia elsewhere EXPRESSED that eur hotiv
4 the temple - The Hfciv spiritT This
heinA true. God. Through his spirit,
dwells within us. ana n an iraulnnert,
not an absentee Ood. Dld net tire Mas
Ter say that the Kingdom - Heaven 10
within u.s.
Il would ako can 40 yuur remembrance
81 paura statement that God g. not Ear
from any ere ~ us. Zach che a us.
then = spirit. having and using a boay
which Ne are privileged e euntrci ard