New Britain herald., 1930-11-03
TALKS 0N
 FREEDOM OF SOUL
Tells Of Mystic Experience" He
 and Colleague Had

teacher and political crusader yes terday told a gathering of 139 men at the session of Everyman's Bible class that he and a colleague, after a year of experiments, had sought and obtained this mystic experience.
 He said he discovered that the vast power above and around the world would intensity the thought in the mind of person who made the contact" which he carried into it. whether it be good or evil.
 Describing his experiences, he said:
 Law Cannot Control soul
 Mysticism in religion IS Of pri- mary importance to the state. This is true for two reasons. In the first place the mystic experience itself is utterly beyond the control Of the law. The soul of a man need not ask permission as to where it should go. what 1t should find and when 1t should feel. Flats cannot control spiritual activity. The state must inevitably recognize that there are human powers which manifest them selves in human lines and which cannot be made subservient to leg islators, judges and juries.
 "A human being has certain phys ical factors in his physical body which are not exactly his physical body but which form q cO-ordinated unity Of forces which is exquisltely interrclated with the physical or ganism in which, and perhaps, be- cause of which. it functions.
 This unity can detach itself from the physical body, make contact with a whirlpool or stream of tre- mcndous power which is not exactly the power that the unity of forces normally came into contact with.
 At the instant Of contact, thought, memory and self-aware- ness vanish. + is as though the unity of forces was a highly charged storage battery which is gradually running down,
 Thus if a thought of hate is car ried 10 the contact, the human be- ing finds himself hating some per son or thing after the experience, and that hate persists until the force of the power has ceased to be felt. The same with love. joy, pleasure, envy or any other emotion.
 Religion and Law
 Discussing Religion and Law. Prof. Levitt pointed out that laws differ in different localities because conditions differ there.
 He said the law does not recog- nlze injury from mere words. pre- Ierring to follow literally the child s do-gerel sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me
 Mere words do not constitute an q assault and that criminal slandef rests, not upon what has been said but because the things said induced the hearers to hold the victim 1n hatred, ridicule or contempt
 Explaining further, he said, words must result ill acts upon the part oi hearers before the law will take cognizance of them.
 In cases where a speaker is in- dicted for blasphemy. Professor Le- .itt pointed out that a theological discourse may result in immediate action, detrimental to the general yalfare, in which riots or assault and battery become imminent. S. ually," he said, when the criminal law is invoked, the hearers nave been aroused 10 physical battle against the speaker
 II, Nf~c ID h I a - tute against blasphemy as an illus tration.
 Religious moral codes are con concerned with mans relation WIFI is God, while criminal codes con- ccrn mans relation to man, thf spa~haF explained. If one man ln- 7erferes with another mans rela' lion with his God. then it became criminal matter in most states. ln- reference with religious Worshlp x prohibited by statute in the majority of states, he explained.
 Pointing out that the crlmlna code does not act to enforce rel, gious laws, Professor Levitt sald A man cannot be prosecuted TOT stealing under the commandment oi the decalogue Thou Shalt No' steal" but that he can be prose cuted under the criminal laws oi inc state because these laws pro hibit stealing.
 Law and Sabbath
 Referring to the Sabbath he salc 4 mans activities cannot be curtaiIec cn religious grounds. that Saopau observance laws cannot be sustained on the general ground that they Iogalize the Christian Sabbath. They are sustained because they are con- rected with the general welfare That the legal day of rest happen; also to be the religious day Of res' is immaterialin the eyes of the la"
 The good that religion can dc is conserved and the evil Wnlch re ligion can do is avoided by not al lowing religion to utilize the power of the state" he added
 Religion deals with 8. great per haps. The state must deal witt what for practical reasons is cer- tainty.
 Religion says that lying, stealing and murder will damn ones soul 1T the world to come. The crirnina law says that the religionist may be correct but that lying, stealing and murder hurt the general wei. fare.
 The individual religionist ma demand that he be permitted tt sacrifice his children on the altal of God because in that way his sou