last that mortal man is but a picture woven out of its own imagery and painted on the canvas of its own imagination.

In the first chapter of the Bible is mentioned the "Beginning God." Everything was made by and in this "Beginning God." We also read in Exodus that Moses put a veil over his face when talking to the children of Israel. But when communing with God through the spiritual sense, he took the veil off." In the Second Corinthians, Paul explains what this veil is, in these words: "And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

"But their minds were blinded; for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old Testament, which veil is done away in Christ.

"But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit."3

The determination of the Origin of Mental Species removes and explains the mystery of this veil; rescues the Bible from mysticism; reveals the source of all science to be God; ends the warfare of science and theology, and gives man a working basis for which he has long sought, namely, THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUBSTANCE.

CHAPTER XIII

THE MISSING LINK

It will be well before taking up the second part of this work, which part will consist largely of examples rather than precept, to consider the importance of the preparation necessary for determining the Origin of Mental Species. Even with a highly developed vision of the mind we are conscious of outlines or forms, which cutlines or forms are evidences of limitation. The field of observation increases with the development of the vision of the mind. The fact that this limitation has been gradually extended implies some reason for the extension. We are familiar with arrested species, that is, species that have not changed within the period of written legendary and fossil history. We have evidence of races of high thought-out development that stood still for long periods. Besides, we have knowledge of civilized races that have not changed perceptibly in thousands of years. Moreover, we have the same object lessons individually as well as collectively. The lives of most persons are merely habit and as a result never grow perceptibly, and degenerate into childishness in old age.1 A great part of the world, even those generally regarded as educated, are living within the finite senses and have never caught a glimpse of anything outside of them. Prayer without power is like education without intelli

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1 Bible-Romans 7:9.

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(Education here used in the correct sense means a knowledge of the principle of things.)

gence. The latter statement includes the two dominating influences in the world-the religious and intellectual.

This is not true of the philosophical species which Hegel regards as the interpretation of Spirit.' Those who comprehend the Nebular Hypothesis or planetesimal theory, have conceived the beginning and end of matter so far as its integration and disintegration in the obvious sense is concerned. When we have reached this point we have reached the limits of bodily vision, broken through the shell in which the world is hatched, and peering beyond have found ourselves in the same position as the early South-Sea Islander who looked out onto the broad Pacific. Working our way blindly through bodily vision, and with unconscious gleams of borrowed light, we have developed the vision of the mind. to the extent that matter becomes a transforming obvious. Looking out on the ocean of interplanetary immensity we have endeavored to conceive spaceless eternity. However, the vague sense of limitation clung to us and we have frequently turned away from vision to mathematics. To destroy this sense of limitation or dimension was necessary to further progress. Speculation left us stranded again on the island of matter and within the scope of the vision of the mind. Here, we insist, demonstration must take the place of speculation if we are to break through this limitation.

The very fact of our growth and development proves there is a power, probably nameless and apparently without substance, that has enabled us to grow. This power we must name intelligently and its substance we must know actually if we are to break through the 1 Philosophy of History-Hegel (Page 99).

moving-picture film of bodily visions and see the Absolute. Darwin put teleology back into evolution, or, more correctly speaking, he put God into evolution in His true relation, and as a result his work has withstood the mightiest force ever arrayed against a growing idea. Darwin gathered the fragmentary evidences of systematic development and by applied science separated them from superstition and gave to the world the principles of orderly development. Years of conjecture about mental species and their induced activities have left the world in the same chaos of speculations with regard to mental powers that Darwin and his co-laborers found existing concerning the development of organic life. This field is now ripe for scientific work. To do this we must be able to destroy the sense of limitation that now forbids the world giving orderly development to mental things just as limitation prevented the realization of connected and orderly development of organic things. This, we must continually insist, can only be done by developing the limitless vision that comes with a consciousness of the Absolute. This developed sense enables us to annul the sense of limitation, demonstrate the Fourth Dimension and as a result have power to destroy the limitations of matter whether in mind or in what is termed organic or inorganic matter. The Fourth Dimension is the operation of the One Absolute and Invariable Law, which law is the teleology of all things. We can be instruments for the operation of this law just in proportion to our overcoming the symbolical sense of things.

Development and growth are often accounted for by saying they are the result of experience. But this,

like many other explanations, fails to explain. Some people never learn by experience while others do. Men have repeated the same prayers, invoked the same aid. in vain; they have seen one failure after another without ever realizing the insufficiency of their methods. They called this faith, euphoniously referred to as a faith that cannot be shaken. When analyzed in its true light it is nothing but limited vision. But it is possible to learn from experience, and learning means the acquiring of intelligence. From what source, we ask, does this intelligence come? A repetition of habit does not teach; likewise a repetition of experiences fails to teach some species. Why, we ask, does one learn from experience and another not? It is the theory of the Origin of Mental Species that learning from experience is the result of inspiration as described in the article psychology. There is a connection through immaterial intelligence between the thought-out unit experiencing and the Absolute Intelligence. Those who have this connection grow just in proportion to the degree of the connecting link. It has been my experience to see people regenerated from almost the lowest level and develop within months into intelligent and cultured men and women. This is a result of opening up this channel of communication or connection between themselves and the Absolute Intelligence. The process was, what we are here trying to explain, namely, the desymobilization of language which results in a consciousness of the Absolute. This I have been able to do for Whites, Indians, Chinese and Negroes. What would have required generations to do by the ordinary processes of development, I have been able to accomplish in two years. These specific