CHAPTER XIX

REVELATION

Revelation consists of the realization through our pure Substance-Self, of its relation to the Absolute whereby communication with this Ultimate element is established, independent of the physical senses as such. The efforts of the religious orders to establish this relation through the senses have failed for the reason that to accomplish this the senses must be subordinated to the Spirit before this is possible. The glorified prophets, endued with some as yet unknown faculty, have been blest with this tangent with truth, often as in the case of Saul of Tarsus without any effort on their part and in Saul's case, as in many others, it seems to have been established as a result of opposition rather than prayerful petition. The scientific understanding of this process of communication we can hope for only after we have grown in the capacity necessary to perceive leadings of truth.

It has been the method of those desiring this state of spiritual fervor to prescribe certain methods of living, believing and humiliation as a preparatory training necessary to the receptivity of this Ultimate essence described as the Holy Ghost. Years of investigation of this subject in the past along with daily practice preparing people to receive this essence successfully has revealed the process to be the very opposite of this. In fact the process consists of a total exhaustion of images or beliefs as reality of which our human faith is com

pacted along with an intelligent human despair of any human realization of this hope. The very exercise of human faculties, except for the purpose of self-denial, is the potency which repels it.

Here is a strange contradiction but it must be remembered it is a mysterious activity we are investigating. Moreover, to have merit our conclusions must of necessity be startingly different from the prevailing idea of things. If the subjugation of the senses is necessary to the realization of this Power, what, we might rightly ask, will be the effect on the five physical senses of something which has the power to devitalize them? Furthermore, if devitalization of the senses is possible even in a measure, the possibilty of their ultimate annihilation necessarily follows. Does not this open up a channel through which we may be able to perceive the cause and account for the insufficiency of this revealed species when measured by their power over the minds of the people, their immunity from attack and the deplorable state of affairs existing in spite of their influence, teaching and authority?

That there is something seriously wrong with our institutions and methods no intelligent person longer denies. The present state of affairs in Europe and Asia has at last humbled the most uncompromising defender of faiths, creeds and doctrines. It is the purpose of this work to find the origin of the species which engender wrath as well as those of an ameliorative nature and influence. While we are in this state of humility, let us search out the cause of the insufficiency, for this humility comes seldom in history and should be improved to the fullest. That there is some cause for the failure

of these species to realize even in a fragmentary way the world's desire is sufficient to humble them to permit an analysis of their means and methods, something they have always violently opposed. Is it not possible this opposition to study and research may be an expression of that mysterious influence that is always present to pervert logic and blight virtuous truth?

Revelation is a process of the realization of man's relation to the Ultimate Principle-God and this realization should destroy all evil. Any variation from this contention means the palliation of, temporization with, and apologizing for the insufficiency of Principle which in its very nature knows no evil or imperfection and therefore tolerates none. If we deviate from this and admit even for a moment that an imperfect agency is necessary to the operation of this perfect Principle we have denied its omnipotence and admitted something in which we will become irretrievably lost. The only existence of an imperfect agency consists of this acknowledgment and to be safe from its deception we must at the very beginning refuse to give it either place or value in the economy of the Absolute.

The theory of good and evil has ever occupied the attention of this species and in considering this subject we must remember there is no good in evil and no evil in good and what is more important is the full realization that evil is not necessary to the triumph of good. It is this tolerance of evil and the frantic efforts to explain it as either an entity or an agency that has robbed this species of its potency and put hope beyond the grave.

In studying this subject according to the process of the Origin of Mental Species we begin by separating

the immaterial activities and their expressions from the material. The felt-out and thought-out minds along with their induced activities or secondary traits we class as evolved activities. These are seen as Substance by the bodily vision; they begin to evanesce with the earliest development of the vision of the mind and continue to assume a more tenuous state as this faculty is developed until the Ultimate element is realized through Revelation and then their formations called matter assume to the senses a translucent nature. When we experienced this sense of dissolving of what we had been taught to believe was substance we were strangely perplexed. No one can ever describe in language evolved from the description of material objects what this is like. It could be tentatively described, merely as an illustration of its effect on the senses, as a metallic translucency.1 The nearest approach we have seen to this is when one looks into the Grand Canyon of Arizona. These experiences have the same effect on the mind as a realization of the Holy Ghost when we are brought I suddenly to its realization as a result of explanation. I have noticed when I have succeeded in awakening a man's consciousness to this realization through the =medium of unemotionalized scientific explanation tears I would begin to flow. It is a well-known fact that men engaged in the intensified industries and under the indictment of intense selfishness and cruelty have experienced when looking into the Grand Canyon feeling foreign to their nature and at the same time were unable to repress tears; and of all things this sight is admitted to be the most indescribable. For years people have 'Probably the luminous ether.

gone to these places of transcendent atmospheric conditions in hope of arresting some consuming disease. All of them have found comfort, many of them have been temporarily benefited and some of them have recovered their health. Is it not possible this highly attenuated atmosphere is a nearer approach to the pure Substance which people unconsciously realize through the manifestation of some evident influence? According to the Origin of Mental Species all effect is mental. Is it not possible, we ask, to realize the presence of the dissolving alchemy of truth through such scenes as well as the result of desymbolizing words? The time has come for a scientific investigation of things so long regarded as mystical and unapproachable. Beyond all doubt it is our sense of matter and bodily vision which prevents our seeing Substance. In the light of this probability would it not be well to overcome the fear caused by technical vanity and apply our marvelous school to solving this problem?

By the aid of these discoveries we will be able to clear up the mysteries of religious books. The objects seen by Bible characters have nearly always been described as either white or shining or else some variation of metallic effects. I am convinced these are nothing but the effect produced on the thoughtout mind while sufficiently attenuated to see this holy Substance. Had the mind been entirely disillusioned of any reality of the objective these objects would not have materialized. Few people are trained to this point of disillusionment. In fact, none of the radical philosophical species has, so far as I can learn, ever seen with spiritual vision. Such men as Swedenborg and Spinoza