NECESSITY FOR PHENOMENA.

Some people are born so spiritual-minded that the proper adjustment of the several functions pertaining to the moral or religious nature stand clearly defined.  Their immortality is never doubted, their faith in the unseen never obscured by clouds of passion, or dimmed by pressure of material necessities.  These are the beacon lights in the world’s progress.  These are the mariners to whom has been given a sure guide and compass.  The others are those who have little or no perception beyond what is seen to befall animal life, and their growth into a finer possibility must be slow and tedious.  It is in fact necessary that many should “rise from the dead” and jam tables and chairs and things around their apartments, ere they can fancy the possibility of any existence separate from this material life.

The most abominable of all egotisms is that which forever studies to limit the possibilities of the Creator, to announce firmly that there is no further consciousness, and no need for human faculties after this life is ended.  The most dignified attitude would be to give him the benefit of the doubt, to admit that He has the power to continue, and remould, and readjust through all time and all eternity.  But this is not a class of subjects which can be settled by logic.  It is based upon a conviction of the inner soul, and the most that anyone can do is to place himself as nearly as possible in harmony with some one law, and this will form a center around which a perception of more shall come, and revolve around it grandly and in perfect time, thus completing the rounding out—­the fullness—­of the character of the individual man or woman.

WILL.

Will, human will, is the result of concrete perceptions of the conscious mind.  Its development depends upon the experiences of the individual soul, and its expression upon the environment, the education, and spiritual discipline of the individual.  Having its foundation in the functions necessary to the sustainment of the mortal life of man, it naturally overrides all considerations outside of the objects of its own pursuit.  It is the quality par excellence, the power of the gods, but only as it comes to relinquish all its selfish determinations, and yield obedience to the all-pervading Higher Will, the will of God, in whom all life has its source and continuance of being can it march along the royal highway that leads to perfection.  This must be so eternally; for there can be no division of purpose or of interest in the divine Mind.

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All religions based upon or derived from sorceries obstruct the progress of the race, and will be, in the fullness of time, disintegrated and readjusted to meet the growing demands of humanity.

CHANGE OF ATOMS.