The mirror., 1922-07-06
DO WE KNOW LIFE?

If man lives three score years and ten
we may say that one-fourth of his life has
been spent in acquiring an education, be-
ginning with the public and high school,
followed by the academy and college and
ending in the university. He is now sup
posed to be fitted for almost any vocation
he may choose to follow and yet with all
this knowledge what does he know of life?
He enters upon whatever profession chosen
but when problems and obstacles are met
with, he has to consult an attorney; when
he falls i'll he must summon a physician.
Should he become mentally deranged he is
taken to an asylum; should he need spiri-
tua guidance he is placed under the super
vision of clergyman. Of what benefit
then is all this knowledge to him since
with all his learning he has neglected the
fundamental principle upon which all is
based, even life itself; and again the
question is asked: "What does he know
of life?" What does he know of nature,
of our benefcent Mother-Nature and the
countless treasures which she holds within
her vast bosom? What does he know of
the vast and boundless ocean and the un-
measured wealth that lies at the bottom
of her great bed and the infinite varieties
of life forms contained within her waters?
What does man know of the spaceless
realms of infnitude and the beings that in
habit those ethereal realms with all the
airy winged creatures that live in the
atmospheric ocean that encirces the earth?
And what of the vast solar systems filling
the unthinkable realms of infnitude, in
cluding the central sun of Suns? All, yes,
what does man understand and know of
life and its indescribable manifestations
and all its teeming millions upon millions
of living creatures that dwell within these
four great elementary domains and their
corresponding realms in man; for whether
it be the universal microcosm or the indi-
same Infinite Intelligence, after the same
image, in accordance with the pattern in
the mount"
What does man know of life as mani
fest in himself; of the four great elements
out of which the substances of his being
were formed and created of his body and
its four great cavities, the head, chest,
abdomen and generatives; and of the four
great systems traversing these functions
like four mighty "rivers" that flow through
these cavities pouring their streams of
"living waters" throughout his entire be-
ing, feeding, refreshing, rejuvenating, up
holding and perpetuating life by virtue of
its own reproducing, life-creative sub
stances?
What does man know of the "divine
ahlatus" us"-breath-that carries the propell-
ing powers forth, causing the harmonious
operation of this most intricate and COM
plicated mechanical instrument, the human
body, to vibrate in perfect harmony and
unison with regularity of action equal
to the ticking of clock. And of the four
distinct operations of the breath of life
that permeates, governs and controls the
four great cavities, head, chest, abdomen
and generatives, and these again cores
pond to the four great systems that navi-
gate the human being which are invigor-
ated, charged and surcharged, each with
their own particular life-infusing, life
sustaining breath.
What does man know of the four great
attributes that comprise and make up his
ndivduaity-body, mind, soul and spirit
the most glorious accomplishment of the
Infinite Intelligence, the croavn of Gods
creative Genius-Man?
God created man in His own image; in
the image of God created He him-male