The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-11
Mind, Man and Matter.
To the Editor of The Republican.

10 LHe LuIlOf OIL i he hepuDllCdH.
Words of big import to every lay
man-big even to the highly intel
lectual. But only as the mind dwells
on great things does it become broad
er and better. Mind lives by what it
feeds on and grows by use as our
muscles gain strength by exercise.
Mind is the master power that
moulds and makes,
And man is mind and everm0re he
takes the tool Of thought
And shaping what he wills, brings
forth q thousand joys,
A thousand ills:
He thinks in secret and it comes to
pass:
Environment is but his looking
glass"
The spiritual man 81 mind is an
ethereal image Of his Maker
Man is dual-minded. He possesses
an ether-born mind called his subiec-
tive, or sub-conscious, and a self-con-
scious mind known as his objective
reasoning mind
The soul-the mind-the conscious
self, is something wonderful to con-
template. In our efforts to conceive
it, invisible and intangibles as it is,
we are prone to divorce it from sub
stance or matter and consider it as
something unreal-ghostlike.
Yet Of all the imperishable realities
the mind is the most sound and ire
futable of facts-a truth born of the
absolute.
Consciousness is the minds most
fundamental attribute and our con-
scious life exists only by incessant
change.
Conscious life resembles synthet-
is chemical product and So COM
pound of elementary psychical pull
stations Of diverse quality which per-
petually rise from our sub-conscious
minds with never an instant of rest.
These primitive pulsations of the soul
well up within US as bubbles of gas
rise to the surface from an inexhaus-
tible spring of carbonated water.
From these psychical molecules are
compounded all our thoughts and
feelings, our hopes and fears, our
faculty to discriminate between
things and to learn that which is
good and that which is ill.
The infinite mind manifests under
two aspects known as mind and mat
ter-as force and form-as intelli-
gent energy and ether.
The ether of space is called the
universal consciousness and is the
underlying basic substance from
which all visible and tangible things
have been materialized.
1t is bottomless sea of plastic
mind substance in which we live and
move and have our being. 1t os ever
alive, ever in vibration and as sensi-
tive to thought impressions from the
finite and infinite minds as a photo
graphic plate is to the astinic rays of
the sun.
Mind and matter are eternally and
indissoluably united-both are i'm
potent to act alone. Mind has to have
vehicle through which to express
and mind gives matter it's motion, its
color, form and qualities.
Matter is something we can sense
see and handle, but mind is invisible
| inscrutable a cause which we car
know only as we observe its effects
Our objective minds grow and de-
velop from our earthly experiences
The objective mind is the seat of rea-
son but it is as apt to think wrong as
to think right, quite as apt to be NOR
ally bad as to be good.
The subjective mind is God-given-
it is wise and had lived long before
it came to earth to join our objective
mind. 1t is the Omnipresent Infinite
mind ever within US, ever an electri-
cal contact with our finite being, ever
responsive to our mental demands