influence such as has never been hoped for by the most zealous religious enthusiasts.

Another effect which comes as a result of the stimulation of preconceived ideas is the fear of reading something which may contradict these ideas. Furthermore, ideas held tentatively before the availableness of Substance become obstinate under its influence and when opposed develop intense bitterness and hatred. Thus is closed the very channel through which they might receive knowledge necessary to the realization of their inconsistency whereby truth is able to appear.

One of the reasons why this has not been discovered before is the fact of its being unthinkable and if thought unbelievable. But while on this vital subject let us make an illustration which will throw some light on this forbidding aspect of human affairs. When a man is ill to the extent that he must lie in bed he is unable to do either the evil or good that a well man can. Now sickness is the absence of Substance and, this being the case, when Substance is restored man is, as a result of renewed strength, able to be an instrument for more evil or more good. Here is an obvious illustration of the way in which Substance-God can be used or abused by human faculties. Remove from the felt-out mind entirely its unconscious utilization of Substance and the felt-out mind would cease to exist. Here again is made obvious the remarkable situation of the existence of something that is not a part of Substance and exists. without its conscious consent. We have cited the instance of the sick and enfeebled felt-out mind being restored to strength and activity by Substance with the possibility of the perversion of the power contributed

to it by Substance to the evil desires of the felt-out mind. We can by extending the illustration see in the case of a diseased thought-out mind, when classified as insanity is restored to health and intelligence by Substance, it may pervert this health and intelligence to evil uses. Herein lies the secret of failure of the institutions created by the holiest of men, endued with noble sentiments and endowed with the Spirit of God. Could anything be more depraved than the human mind which, while pretending noble purposes to itself, is all of the time exercising its depraved influence to pervert, not only love and wisdom, but health and strength derived from the holiest source to the basest of purposes? How subtle is its deception when we realize its greatest field of activity is where the most good is obvious! We can, as a result of this discovery, see how people pretending and meaning to lead exemplary lives, are criticised for and actually do practice the meanest of deceits. If this is true of the individual who at times, at least, feels the countervailing influence of Substance in his own consciousness what, we ask, are the possibilities of this subtle deception in organizations where this countervailing conscience does not exist? Here we account for the oft repeated expression in courts where corporations are on trial: "A corporation without a soul." This however applies to all of them whether financial, civil, political or religious.

Let us pause here for a moment and contemplate the existence of something without a soul. We have often seen even at its darkest periods mankind individually and collectively feel the influence of something which Paul described as "making intercession for us with

groanings which cannot be uttered." But the institution which exists only as a necessity growing out of the relations of human beings has none of this consciousness and moreover it finds no place in it except that which is defined by the human mind. It is a well-known fact that when the zeal of the founders of an institution ceases decay sets in. The institution will not of itself and alone suffice to keep up perennial regeneration. America, for example, is not a geographical location; neither is it founded on tradition linked with the mysterious past. The human absolutism of monarchical peoples is its very antithesis and the ultimate abandonment of human power its goal. America was received through the vision of the mind by an inspired people. To be more exact, it was not conceived but perceived and as long as we perceive this America it will live. However, should we become so obsessed with materiality as to lose this vision and revert to bodily vision we will again fall to the level of human absolutism with all of its deceits and calamities. The organization, instead of being a channel for the expression of the nobler sentiment of man derived through the vision of the minds, does worse than cease to exist. Here the human mind substitutes itself for the Substance of the zeal of its founders and, disguised under the words and symbols of its founders, the organization continues to exist by prostituting noble purposes to its own end and consumes itself and the lives on which it has thrived. This, when understood, will account for the rise of what have been termed infidel nations and the decadence of what have been termed religious empires.

Here we find the cause and origin of the economic movement growing out of the insufficiency of religious

institutions and the appearance of inglorious prophets. The law of compensation, though never complete in this world, is ever striving to compensate for the insufficiency of the world's institutions. This is the intercession of that Power that is ever striving to make Its usefulness known to man with groanings which cannot be uttered.

The revealed species, of which there are a few, the religious species of which there are many, and the ethical species, which is rapidly increasing in numbers, constitute the three great enlightened species of which the others are varieties. The first of these becomes conscious of the existence of Substance and devotes itself to the contemplation of Substance as a luxury. Believing this consciousness will right all of the wrongs of the world it strives heroically to get all to see this soothing grace. However, while this effort is going on, the organization of civilization continues its existence with little regard for the strivings of these zealots. The fact that the power they proclaim never attaches itself to anything unlike itself never seems to have occurred to this species. The substratum of itself which constitutes the real life of all animated beings and which is always ready to blend with itself is lacking in the institution. Moreover, words will not put it there. A personal consciousness of its existence will not put it there. Substance alone has an affinity for Substance and there is no Substance in the human organization.

The religious or believing species which merely believes what the revealed species knew continues the work of the revealed species without the Substance necessary to the purification of the human thought, which purification must precede reform. Without power to do the

works which the revealed species can do, works necessary to the proof of power, this species begins to make apologies and excuses for the insufficiency and absence of God in this world and naturally the ever-present deception of the human mind is there to postulate beyond the grave what the revealed species said could come to us here in earth. This species, being neither a religion which has power nor a sense of practically organized inspired thought, deteriorates into a warfare of human opinions.

The ethical or inspired species is the result of the influence of Substance on the highly attenuated thoughtout mind and its value lies in its remarkable faculty of defining Absolute intelligence in human language and thereby reducing it to human usefulness. Knowing that all good is supernal and that to be useful this good must be interpreted and defined it neither abandons the human race as hopeless nor regards the merely natural as the ultimate good. Having learned from the process of the ages that knowledge is derivable even without knowing its source this species continues to explore the kingdoms of thought in search of more knowledge. Instead of making laws it searches for wisdom-the wisdom that will prevent man from colliding with an invisible God, brute nature and his fellow man.