Section 3

Huxley admitted that he did not know.
As the appetite craves new chemical combinations of food from day to day, so does mind crave new concepts of
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infinite life. The word "Infinite" defines an endless dif- ferentiation of concept.
If the Spiritual Consciousness — the "mighty Angel" that the clairvoyant seer, John the Revelator, saw descend- ing out of the Heavens — shall carry away the pillars of material evolution, a Temple of Truth divinely fair will spring, Phoenix-like, to take its place. Eyes shall then be opened and ears unstopped. Man will then realize that the so-called lower forms of life are just as complex, won- derful and difficult to form as the organism of man — that proto-plasm is as wonderful in any other form as in the
fray matter of the human brain, which is only another orm of its expression — that the molecular composition of a jelly-fish puzzles the greatest chemist, and the wisdom of a beaver is enough to strike dumb all the believers in the Darwinian fairy tale.
And has the dream of good and evil any better founda- tion than has this one of material evolution? We are here to solve the problems of life, not to evade them; and, to name the mighty operations of Eternal Wisdom, good and evil is simply evading instead of solving.
The universal Principle, Spirit, or God, is impartial. Saint and Sinner are one in the Eternal Mind. God, or Infinite Life is not in the least injured by so-called good or evil. The Spiritual Ego is the interested party and must work out its own Salvation. There is no point in the universe better, higher, or nearer God, or the centre, than any other point. All places are necessary, and no one is favored over any other. As Huxley well said, "Good and evil are opposite poles of the same absurdity." Good must have evil for its opposite, if it exists at all. He who would realize Being must get rid of the concept of good, as well as the concept of evil. Good and evil are qualifications, and Being does not admit of qualification or grades. It simply is. The ideal we call good eternally exists, but its name is wisdom's operations. Nothing is low or high, good or bad, except to that individual con- cept which allows comparison. "Comparisons are odious."
Physical Science, so-called, declares in its text-books that light travels from the sun to the earth in eight minutes — a distance of about ninety-five million miles. To question
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this statement a few years ago meant ostracism from the circle of the elect who knew things. But today the icono- clast stands at the gate of the temples of learning and batters at the walls with the hammer of Thor. Fear and trembling seize upon the votaries of material gods as they see evolution, progression, the theories of electricity, light and heat, good and evil, all cast into the crucible of truth for transmutation in the Divine Alchemy of Being, all dissolving as pieces of ice of different sizes and shapes change to water.
The present day chemist, as he begins to tread the soil where stood the ancient alchemist, tells us that light and heat are simply the rates of motion of a substance that does not travel from star to star or from sun to planet, but vibrates in its place at rates directed by the Eternal Word. This substance, aerial or etheric, does not travel — it is everywhere present — the body of omnipresent being.
Men now dare assert that there is no evidence that the sun is hot, but that there is evidence that the sun is the dynamo of the Solar System and so vibrates the etheric substance that light, heat, cold and gravitation are pro- duced— not as entities separate from the universal ele- ments, but as results or effects produced by different rates of motion of the molecules of the wire — molecular motion — or of the air or etheric substance, as in wireless teleg- raphy.
Another ancient belief, now obsolete, is the progression of man in a better state of existence after death or cess- ation of bodily functions. This idea had its origin in the fallacy that there were grades of goodness in the Divine Mind, and that somehow we are not treated right during earth life, and that, in consequence, we must be rewarded by an easy berth uover there." But we now see quite clearly that the great cause of life and all its operations would be unjust to withhold from its sons and daughters for one moment anything that belonged to them. If the Cause ever does wrong, we see no reason why it should repent and do right. If the Cause ever failed in the least particular to give just dues, it may do so again at any
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time. The "better state of existence" mentioned above can only come through wisdom obtained here and now; thus will man "work out his own salvation."
The time was, and not so very long ago, when the recognized scientist believed that there were about seven- ty-four elements, indivisible, separate and distinct; but the alchemical iconoclast with his hammer of truth has pulverized the fallacy and remorselessly hammered and pounded the seventy-four faces into one countenance.
For a long time, hydrogen gas, the negative pole of water, was supposed to be indivisible beyond all question ; but the present day chemist knows it is only an expression of yet more subtle molecules back of which, "Standeth God within the shadow keeping watch above His own."
A post-mortem examination of some of the wrecks along the shores of the troubled sea of science discloses a belief that the Ego is an individual, who through knowl- edge of its divine origin may draw unto itself all things it may desire ! But as fast as the Sleepers awaken they see that each Ego is only "part of one stupendous whole" that does not draw unto itself anything. That there is no law of attraction for the eternal substance is every- where present and each one uses exactly that portion pre- pared for him from everlasting unto everlasting.
When the continuity of life was first demonstrated be- yond question those who caught the first dispatches from disincarnate spirits sprang forth from their beds of mate- rial sleep and with half-opened eyes only saw the great truth through "a glass darkly." Then came a babel of words. They jabbered a jargon that needed translation to be understood. The ideas of progression in earth life that obtained among men was transplanted to the spirit realm and we were told by the votaries of spiritual phil- osophy that men and women had great opportunities for progression after leaving the flesh. As the idea of a com- mencement of the universe was a common belief among those asleep in material consciousness, being the corner stone of evolution, so the idea obtained that the individual had a commencement in the maternal human laboratory. As these half-awakened individuals could not comprehend
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that an action contrary to their concept of good could possibly be caused by Infinite Intelligence they concluded that the so-called bad actions of men and women were prompted by evil earth-bound spirits. These people — many of them — also thought that the main object of the existence of Spirits in the Spirit realm was to gather infor- mation about mines and stocks and bonds and lotteries and races and thus assist poor mortals to ret-rich-quick. It was supposed that these spirits were posted in regard to deeds and wills and knew when wealthy relatives would shuffle off the mortal coil or when undesirable wives or husbands would "pass out."
But at last the sun of Truth pierced the darkness and the jargon of selfishness changed to the "New Song." We now clearly see that each spirit is a part or attribute of the One Eternal Spirit — therefore has existed always and that the process of generation deals with flesh clothing, or mask for the spirit in which it performs a necessary part in the creative process. The word "person" is de- rived from a Greek word, Persona, meaning mask.
We see that the phenomena we have called obsession by evil spirits is God's surgery or dynamic operation in His own temple quite as impossible for us to understand in our present environment as it is for the child to under- stand the wisdom and necessity in the operation of the adept surgeon.
And, finally, we now see and realize fully that Eternal Wisdom without beginning or end of days does not prog- ress before entering a temple of flesh, while it occupies it, or after it leaves it. All creative or formative proc- esses may properly be termed operations of wisdom or Eternal Life.
In the unwalled temple of the Now, beneath its roofless dome there is no progression, but a constantly moving panorama forever presenting to consciousness new phases of the absolute.
The men and women who do things take hold of oppor- tunities and material that they find all about them now, and operate with them, astonishing results following the efforts of all who recognize that eternal force has use for
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them NOW to carry out the divine plan. We are all operators or workmen in the divine workshop, and the Divine Intelligence, the eternal IT, made no mistake in placing any of us here, but does insist that we recognize that NOW is the time and Here is the place to do our best. As the Great Cause does not need to first practice on lower forms in order at some future time to attain perfection, we must recognize and practice being in the present, instead of becoming in the future, for the Eternal Now is all the time there is.
"But," you say, "your science has taken away my God, and I know not where you have lain Him." On the contrary, I have brought you to the one true God, "which was, and is, and evermore shall be."
The fifth verse of the last chapter of the book of Job reads as follows :
"I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee."
The wonderful writings and scientific statements found in that Book of all books, the Christian Bible, were recorded at dates covering thousands of years by men and women who never heard of each other. Some of these teachers lived away back in the age when the Solar System was swinging through the zodiacal sign, Taurus; when Phallic worship prevailed; when the number six was understood as sex, and the creative or formative prin- ciple operating through the sex functions was worshiped as the very Holy of Holies. Other teachers, who contrib- uted to the knowledge of life and its operations contained in the Bible, lived in the age of Aries, a fire sign, when fire and sun were worshiped as the essence of God; and, as heat, the cause of the phenomenon called fire, cannot be seen, it was a reasonable thing to say that "no one can see God and live." So then, it depends upon the point of view one has of God, or the spirit of things, whether he says, "No one can see God and live," or says, "Now mine eye seeth thee !"
The writer of the book named Job must have lived more than eight thousand years ago, even before the Taurian age — symbolized by the Winged Bulls of Nineveh — which was in the Gemini age, the age of perception and
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expression, being an air age. Let it be understood that an age in this connection means twenty-two hundred years, the period for the Solar System to pass across one of the signs of the zodiac. In an air age, Egos awaken to their divine heritage, and realize their Godhood. The writer of Job, then, living in the Gemini or air age, could see God and live. Our Solar System has entered the sign Aquarius, another air sign, and the spiritualized elements so act upon our brain-cells that we are able to understand the teachers of a past air age, and also see God and live.
Carlyle, the prince of literary critics, said "The book of Job is the most wonderful and beautiful literary produc- tion ever given to the world." Certainly the scientific truths of astrology and alchemy, and of the Spirit's oper- ation in flesh, as set forth in that book, are without a parallel. The letters J, O, B, have an occult, scientific meaning, I and J are the same IOB meaning the same as JOB. I means the Eternal I. All the Hebrew letters were formed from I. O means the universe, without beginning or end, and B means Beth, a body, house, church, or temple. Therefore, GOD, or all, may be dis- covered as seen in JOB or IOB. The word, Job, has no reference to a person. The name, or letters of the word, symbolize principle, the same as wisdom, knowledge, in- telligence, or Christ, or Buddha. We symbolize the prin- ciples of our government in personalities, and picture them in the form of a man or woman, namely, Uncle Sam, or Columbia. But we do more than that: we put words in their mouth and make them utter speech. And shall we ignore these facts when dealing with the record of past ages? One record plainly states that Jesus spake only in parables.
But let us consider more closely the discovery of God. The numerical value of G.O.D., according to ancient Kabalia, is nine — the all of mathematics — no person is alluded to. If the statement, "I and the Father are one," is true, the "I" must be the Father manifested or ex- pressed. As it is not possible to conceive of the Father except through expression, we must conclude that mani- festation in some form of so-called matter is eternal — the srreat necessity — and has therefore always been.
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It is quite reasonable to think that some oxygen and hydrogen has eternally existed in gaseous form, some in the combination that causes water and some in the con- crete or concentrated form known as ice. Then upon the postulate that Spirit and matter — that is, bodily or mate- rial expression — are one, it follows logically that matter, including the physical body or temple of man, is as neces- sary to the Father-Mother principle while held in a given rate of activity or expression as this life essence is neces- sary to matter, or the physical structure of man. I see oxygen and hydrogen when I look at the manifestation we call ice. When I see water, I know just how oxygen and hydrogen appear when united. So when I look at any form of so-called matter, I know exactly how God appears at that particular time and place. I do not see the effect or works of God, but I see God, and just as much of God, face to face, as I am capable of seeing or recognizing at a certain time.
Step by step, the scientific investigator is being led to the threshold of the awful, absolute Truth, that all matter, or substance, or energy or force — call it what you may — is not only intelligent, but is Pure Intelligence itself. Atoms, molecules, electrons are but expressions of rates of motion of pure Mind, Thought, or Intelligence that man has personified and called God. Ice is not permeated with water, or controlled by water. Ice is water. Matter is not controlled by mind; mind and matter are one. A high vibration of mind does control, to a certain extent, a lower vibration of mind, as water, may carry a lump of ice here or there, water being a more positive rate of activity of the same thing. The particles, so-called, of matter know what to do. The atoms that compose a leaf know when to cohere and materialize a leaf, and they know how and when to disintegrate and dematerialize it: "Thou shalt have no other gods."
I hold in my hand that particular form of the one thing called a rose. Material thought says it is made by God, or that God is in the rose or back of it, or that God caused or created it; but when Spirit, the I Am, asks where is the God that created the rose, where has he
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betaken Himself, material belief is silent. But hold a moment! I have here a bud, a half- formed rose. If God makes a rose, He must continue the work to com- pletion. Ah, speak softly! Look closely! The rose is now being made, and you say God is making it. Yes, you said God made this full-blown rose. Well, then, He is surely now at work on this half-blown rose. Bring on your spectroscope, your miscroscope ! Quick, now, you chemist ! Bring on your test-tubes, your acids and alkalis, your spectroscope and X-ray. Analyze, illuminate and magnify ! Now we shall discover God. He is here at work before our eyes.
What do you see, chemist? What do you see, scientist? Ah ! I know what you see. My experience in the realm of matter and of Spirit tell me what you see. O thou stupendous sex force — sex — days of creation, thou Father- Mother Yahveh, thou divine male and female, thou eter- nal positive and negative dynamis ! We now behold thee operating. Out from the chemicalizing mass of God's creative compounds, out of the quivering, vibrating sub- stance, slowly comes forth the rose. But are you sure it is a rose? Hold a moment. What is a rose? Of what material is it formed? Ah! the chemist speaks — he of the crucibles and test-tubes and acids! Hear the chemist!