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If there can be one thing more pitiful than all others it is to see little human bugs and reptiles mount their egotistical stilts and declare the non-existence of the Creator.

If the blatant critics would only give over blowing their individual horns, and remark for a little the value of quiet introspection, many mysteries would reveal themselves and much good would be realized.

REASON.

Human reason is the outgrowth of the intuition.  In its final analysis, it is the comprehension by the soul of the reality of truth and of its just relationships and values.  It is the power of discriminating and deciding between the perception of the intuition and the testimony of facts gathered by observation and experience.  The intuition of man is of the will, that of woman is of the affections; thus it is more spiritual than man’s.  Just as the doctors have prospected and laid out and defined the functions of the physical body, so are the psychologists and the mental scientists seeking a way and method by which the attributes of the real being may be divided off into sections and labelled accordingly.  The fact is, the individual soul is all the time struggling to reach its own at-one-ment with itself.  When it comes under the tuition and discipline of the gods, and begins to perceive their methods, it can understand the whys and wherefores of the intentions of life’s experiences.  They are to consolidate and make practical vagrant emotions and tendencies, and lop off and scorch out the idiosyncrasies of heredity and custom, and rouse the soul to a knowledge of its need of harmony with divine law.  Into the real soul depths can no divulging line and plummet reach.  This domain belongs to its Creator alone.  It is only as the tests of living and doing manifest hidden motives and meanings that we catch glimpses of the ego that abides within and through this life, submerged as it is in the flesh.  We can know but little of what is now, or of what yet shall be, when the wholeness of the individual is established.

SYMPATHY.

Be not beguiled by pity masquerading in the guise of sympathy.  Real sympathy comes only through an understanding of conditions as the result of the same, or of exactly similar experiences.  But though experiences differ in details, according to the organizations and idiosyncrasies of individuals, the results in awakening the mind to a realization of truth, and final evolution and growth of the soul are enough alike to foster a real sympathy, and mutual understanding.  Souls thus linked together are truly friends and comrades.

NEW RELIGIONS.