ter called mind, we will learn what the real Mind is, and that Mind is the only substance.

After analyzing the thought of substance Mr. Haeckel says: "Experience has never yet discovered for us a single immaterial substance, a single force which is not dependent on matter, or a single form of energy which is not exerted by material movement, whether it be a mass, or of ether, or of both."

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The whole trouble with this observation is that it is an observation by and with the human mind or senses. As the human mind is material, it can take cognizance of nothing but matter. Thus the human mind or existence experiences nothing but human impressions. The human brain only responds to vibrations and in the perfect Mind there is no vibration.

Referring to Newton's law of gravitation Mr. Hackel says: "It gives us merely the quantitative demonstration of the theory; it gives us no insight whatever into the qualitative nature of the phenomena. The action at a distance without a medium, which Newton deduced from his law of gravitation, and which became one of the most serious and dangerous dogmas of later physics, does not afford the slightest explanation of the real causes of attraction." In the first instance, Mr. Haeckel denies the existence of immaterial intelligence and the second reveals the necessity for the same. Newton, like many others, saw the necessity of this intelligence. In his efforts to find this intelligence he, like thousands of others, got lost in the human mind pheno

mena.

1 The Riddle of the Universe-Ernest Haeckel (Page 221). The Riddle of the Universe-Ernest Haeckel (Page 217).

On this very immaterial intelligence or force are strung the thoughts of just such wonderful men as Mr. Haeckel. The marvelous apperception of these men is this very intelligence. The trouble is, however, while this intelligence is the activity, we only see the human concept which is made possible by this activity and not the activity itself. This activity has no consciousness of material concepts in the form of words or ideas, just as this same life of a tree has no consciousness of body, branches, leaves or blossoms.

With reference to consciousness Mr. Haeckel says: "Perhaps the meaning of consciousness is best conceived as an internal perception, and compared with the action of a mirror. As its two chief departments we distinguish objective and subjective consciousness-consciousness of the world, the non-ego, and of the Ego. By far the greater part of our conscious activity, as Schopenhauer justly remarked, belongs to the consciousness of the outer world, or the non-ego: this world consciousness embraces all possible phenomena of the outer world which are in any sense accessible to our minds.”1,

It is this very non-ego that we contend is responsible for birth, growth and decay, as well as all human phenThe activity or real life we contend is the Ego,

omena.

God.

As I have said before, religion, science and philosophy are one and interchangeable only as they express the Absolute. They are merely names for channels of thought. We have attached too much importance to names that never convey the same meaning to two persons at the same time. These names and classification of 1 The Riddle of the Universe-Ernest Haeckel (Page 171).

human impressions into schools of thought are the Adam existence or non-ego.

The following from Mr. Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe" covers the objections to religion usually made by scientific and profound people: "This progress of modern times in knowledge of the true and enjoyment of the beautiful expresses, on the one hand, a valuable element of our monistic religion, but is, on the other hand, in fatal opposition to Christianity. For the human mind is thus made to live on this side of the grave; Christianity would have it ever gaze beyond. Monism teaches that we are perishable children of the earth, who for one or two, or at most, three generations, have the good fortune to enjoy the treasures of our planet, to drink of the inexhaustible fountain of its beauty, and to trace out the marvelous play of its forces. Christianity would teach us that the earth is a vale of tears in which we have but a brief period to chasten and torment ourselves in order to merit the life of eternal bliss beyond. Where this 'beyond' is, and of what joys the glory of this eternal life is compacted, no revelation has ever told us. As long as 'heaven' was thought to be the blue vault that hovers over the disk of our planet, and is illumined by the twinkling light of a few thousand stars, the human imagination could picture to itself the ambrosial banquets of the Olympic gods above or the laden tables of the happy dwellers in Valhalla. But now all of these deities and the immortal souls that sat at their tables are 'houseless and homeless' as David Strauss has so ably described; for we know from astrophysical science that the immeasurable depths of space are filled with

prosaic ether, and that millions of heavenly bodies, ruled by the eternal laws of iron, rush hither and thither in that great ocean in their eternal rhythm of life and death.",

This criticism denies the hypothetical Heaven and Hell located in space and time that science, which is the synonym for Intelligence, has never accepted. It is the premise of the human idea of peace and rest beyond the grave. It is warring over such mental images as these which has diverted intelligence from the law of probabilities dimly discerned in intelligent growth. It is the result of the deception of the human mind which always located everything within itself. Being unable to conceive any form of peace within the range of human existence has resulted, naturally, in putting beyond the grave what it, the human mind, cannot realize here. The disposition to put beyond the grave what cannot be comprehended here has resulted from man's inability to grasp the possibility of growth without dying, to the point where revelation in an intelligent manner becomes possible. The sense which supersedes all other faculties and through which we avail ourselves of Substance, instead of being heightened and hastened, is hindered by death. This illusion that death is a factor in the process of progress comes from the influence of evolution, either conscious or unconscious, for it is a law of the felt-out existence. It is the law of the male and female minds but is not a factor, except it would be a negative one, in the development of men and women as a result of external realization through Inspiration and Revelation.

The Riddle of the Universe-Ernest Haeckel (Page 344).

THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIBLE SCIENCE

The insufficiency of the most pure logic is well understood by those who have reached the limits of finite sense and with clouded vision contemplated the Absolute. The philosophy, wisdom and substance of Bible Science is apprehended only as we grow into the consciousness of reality. As all reality consists of immaterial intelligence, it necessarily follows that Spirit, immaterial intelligence, must be not only the foundation but the only element of premise and conclusion. Therefore, the Divine mind that exists beyond the range of the finite senses is the only substance.

There is, however, a vast difference between believing in the existence of this substance and knowing it to the extent that we can avail ourselves of it. As mortal health is only a habit of health and man finds satisfaction in this until it fails him and he learns that it is not health, just so mortal man may believe that all is Mind-Substance until he puts his belief of determining this fact to a test, which proves that he did not know, he only believed. Hence, to know anything we must know it with the Mind of Christ, Spirit,-immaterial intelligence, the only pure reason.

Therefore, every mental structure, and there is no other, must be built on this pure reason. Herein lies the scientific interpretation of the parable in the Bible about the man who built his house on the rock. Every philosophical investigator, every mind capable of the least particle of apperception, is tired of things built on the sands of human belief. It matters not if it is Christian religion, which is but a perverted sense of Jesus' teachings, down to the silly amblings of the poli