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tion, while on the other hand it is quite evident that intelligence is the result of revealed consciousness or revelation, in just the proportion that matter in the form of mind, becomes rarefied or attenuated. Just to the degree of the opacity or translucence of the human mind are we intelligent, or non-intelligent. But at no time is matter the intelligence, nor is the intelligence in matter.

Professor Winchell has asked this very pertinent question: "Is it not possible that the fish on the planet Jupiter, which is all water, have developed the same degree of intelligence in their element, water, as we have in our element, air?" The theory of design has gone along with all of the other theories woven out of the imagination of man to sustain the belief that mortal man is made in the image and likeness of God.

A few years ago there went the rounds of the religious papers of this country the following story: "A certain spider that lived on trees having a deeply serrated bark, by the wise providence of God had been provided with a long tentacle with which it could penetrate deep into the crevices and capture another insect on which it fed." There was nothing said about the poor insect being devoured. There is no use permitting ourselves being drawn into this discussion. Mortal life is not self-sustaining, but rather is it self-consuming. Mortal life feeds on mortal life. Mortal life is sustained in its changing forms by the elements out of which it has evolved, but the great Mind, the only real life, goes on unconscious of this transformation. As long as we look for man, life or intelligence in matter we will be Ancient Mariners on the voyage of felt-out and thought-out existence, chasing the phantom mortal man, to find at

last that mortal man is but a picture woven out of its own imagery and painted on the canvas of its own imagination.

In the first chapter of the Bible is mentioned the "Beginning God." Everything was made by and in this "Beginning God." We also read in Exodus that Moses put a veil over his face when talking to the children of Israel. But when communing with God through the spiritual sense, he took the veil off. In the Second Corinthians, Paul explains what this veil is, in these words: "And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

"But their minds were blinded; for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old Testament, which veil is done away in Christ.

"But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit."3

The determination of the Origin of Mental Species removes and explains the mystery of this veil; rescues the Bible from mysticism; reveals the source of all science to be God; ends the warfare of science and theology, and gives man a working basis for which he has long sought, namely, THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUBSTANCE.

1 Bible-Genesis 1:1.

2 Bible-Exodus 34:29-35.

Bible-Second Corinthians 3:13-17.

CHAPTER XIII

THE MISSING LINK

It will be well before taking up the second part of this work, which part will consist largely of examples rather than precept, to consider the importance of the preparation necessary for determining the Origin of Mental Species. Even with a highly developed vision of the mind we are conscious of outlines or forms, which cutlines or forms are evidences of limitation. The field of observation increases with the development of the vision of the mind. The fact that this limitation has been gradually extended implies some reason for the extension. We are familiar with arrested species, that is, species that have not changed within the period of written legendary and fossil history. We have evidence of races of high thought-out development that stood still for long periods. Besides, we have knowledge of civilized races that have not changed perceptibly in thousands of years. Moreover, we have the same object lessons individually as well as collectively. The lives of most persons are merely habit and as a result never grow perceptibly, and degenerate into childishness in old age.1 A great part of the world, even those generally regarded as educated, are living within the finite senses and have never caught a glimpse of anything outside of them. Prayer without power is like education without intelli

1 Bible-Romans 7:9.

2

(Education here used in the correct sense means a knowledge of the principle of things.)

gence. The latter statement includes the two dominating influences in the world-the religious and intellectual.

This is not true of the philosophical species which Hegel regards as the interpretation of Spirit.' Those who comprehend the Nebular Hypothesis or planetesimal theory, have conceived the beginning and end of matter so far as its integration and disintegration in the obvious sense is concerned. When we have reached this point we have reached the limits of bodily vision, broken through the shell in which the world is hatched, and peering beyond have found ourselves in the same position as the early South-Sea Islander who looked out onto the broad Pacific. Working our way blindly through bodily vision, and with unconscious gleams of borrowed light, we have developed the vision of the mind. to the extent that matter becomes, a transforming obvious. Looking out on the ocean of interplanetary immensity we have endeavored to conceive spaceless eternity. However, the vague sense of limitation clung to us and we have frequently turned away from vision to mathematics. To destroy this sense of limitation or dimension was necessary to further progress. Speculation left us stranded again on the island of matter and within the scope of the vision of the mind. Here, we insist, demonstration must take the place of speculation if we are to break through this limitation.

The very fact of our growth and development proves there is a power, probably nameless and apparently without substance, that has enabled us to grow. This power we must name intelligently and its substance we must know actually if we are to break through the 1 Philosophy of History-Hegel (Page 99).

moving-picture film of bodily visions and see the Absolute. Darwin put teleology back into evolution, or, more correctly speaking, he put God into evolution in His true relation, and as a result his work has withstood the mightiest force ever arrayed against a growing idea. Darwin gathered the fragmentary evidences of systematic development and by applied science separated them from superstition and gave to the world the principles of orderly development. Years of conjecture about mental species and their induced activities have left the world in the same chaos of speculations with regard to mental powers that Darwin and his co-laborers found existing concerning the development of organic life. This field is now ripe for scientific work. To do this we must be able to destroy the sense of limitation that now forbids the world giving orderly development to mental things just as limitation prevented the realization of connected and orderly development of organic things. This, we must continually insist, can only be done by developing the limitless vision that comes with a consciousness of the Absolute. This developed sense enables us to annul the sense of limitation, demonstrate the Fourth Dimension and as a result have power to destroy the limitations of matter whether in mind or in what is termed organic or inorganic matter. The Fourth Dimension is the operation of the One Absolute and Invariable Law, which law is the teleology of all things. We can be instruments for the operation of this law just in proportion to our overcoming the symbolical sense of things.

Development and growth are often accounted for by saying they are the result of experience. But this,

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