It is the centre of force, as immaterial as spirit, as ethereal and unsubstantial.  As centres of force imply locality, and locality space, so space must have an extension of its own.  Not so; it is a pure creation of the mind.  The same holds true of time.  The world of mind, the moral world as well, are our own creations.  Man has no power over himself; nothing could have been otherwise than as it is.  Repentance and remorse are foolish regrets over what could not have been otherwise.  All actions and motives are indifferent; only in their consequences can any distinction be observed between them.  Such as minister to man’s pleasure he calls good; such as produce pain he calls evil.  Thereis no good but pleasure, and no evil but pain.  Hence there is no distinction between moral and physical evil.  Morality is the chemistry of the mind, its attractions and repulsions, likes and dislikes.  God is an illusion, as are all moral conclusions based on his existence, Nor has man any reality; he is the greatest illusion and delusion of all.  The faculty of individuality gives us all our ideas and feelings, and creates for us what we call our minds.  A mind is an aggregate of a stream of consciousness.  Ideas, feelings, states of consciousness, do not inhere in anything; each is a distinct entity.  “Thinking is,” is what we should say, not “I think.”  Here we are at the ground fact of what constitutes being, on solid footing; consciousness cannot deceive us.  Thinking is, even if mind and matter, self and not-self, are illusory.  It is, even if we deny both the external and internal causes of consciousness.  We know our own consciousness, that alone.  All is inference beside.  When we consider what inferences are most probable, we are led to build up a constructive philosophy.  Consciousness says we have a body, body a brain, and pressure on the brain stops consciousness; hence a close connection between the brain and consciousness.  The two go together, and in the brain we must lay the foundation of our philosophy.  The mental faculties create the world of individual consciousness, it the outside world.  We know only what is revealed in consciousness.  Matter and mind are one.  Life and mind are correlates of physical force; they are the forms assumed by physical force when subjected to organic conditions.  Yet there is no such thing as mere physical force.  Every atom of matter acts intelligently; it has so acted always.  The conscious intelligence of the universe has subsided into natural law, and acts automatically.  This universal agent of life in all things is God.  All consciousness and physical force are but “the varied God.”  There is in reality no agent but mind, conscious or unconscious.  God is nature; matter is mind solidified.  Matter is force as revealed by the senses.  It is the body, force is the soul.  In nature, as in man, body and soul are one and indivisible.  Mind builds up organisms.  There is a living will, conscious or unconscious, in all things.  The One and All requires the resignation of the individual and personal, of all that is selfish, to the Infinite whole.