why; where the material came from that went to the making of millions of solar systems and trillions of living organisms concerning whose existence we have no knowledge or perception.  Some of them deny a God,—­but most of them are driven to confess that there must be an Intelligence, supreme and omnipotent, behind the visible Universe.  Order cannot come out of Chaos without a directing Mind; and Order would be quickly submerged into Chaos again were not the directing Mind of a nature to sustain its method and condition.

“We start, therefore, with this Governing Intelligence or directing Mind, which must, like the brain of man, be dual, combining the male and female attributes, since we see that it expresses itself throughout all creation in dual form and type.  Intelligence, Mind, or Spirit, whichever we may elect to call it, is inherently active and must find an outlet for its powers,—­and the very fact of this necessity produces Desire to perpetuate Itself in varied ways:  this again is the first attribute of Love.  Hence Love is the foundation of worlds, and the source of all living organisms,—­the dual atoms, or ions of spirit and matter yielding to Attraction, Union and Reproduction.  If we master this fact reasonably and thoroughly, we shall be nearer the comprehension of life.”

He paused a moment,—­then advanced a step or two and went on, the flaming Symbol behind him seeming literally to envelop him in its beams,

“What we have to learn first of all is, how these laws affect us as individual human beings and as separate personalities.  It is necessary to avoid all obscurity of language in setting forth the simple principles which should guide and preserve each human existence, and my explanation shall be as brief and plain as I can make it.  Granted that there is a Divine Mind or Governing Intelligence behind the infinitude of vital and productive atoms which in their union and reproduction build up the wonders of the Universe, we see and admit that one of the chief results of the working of this Divine Mind is Man.  He is, so we have been told—­ ‘the image of God.’  This expression may be taken as a poetic line in the Scriptures, meaning no more than poetic imagery,—­but it is nevertheless a truth.  Man is a kind of Universe in himself—­he too is a conglomeration of atoms—­atoms that are active, reproductive, and desirous of perpetual creativeness.  Behind them, as in the nature of the Divine, there is the Governing Intelligence, the Mind, the Spirit,—­dual in type, double-sexed in action.  Without the Mind to control it, the constitution of Man is chaos,—­just as the Universe itself would be without the Creator’s governance.  What we have chiefly to remember is, that just as the Spirit behind visible Nature is Divine and eternal, so is the Spirit behind each one of our individual selves also Divine and eternal.  It has been always,—­ it will be always, and we move as distinct personalities