“We find that the civilization of the present age has reached a point where science and mechanics have obliterated space, and, in a sense, time. The whole world, the ancient and the modern, is rapidly being spread before the public gaze, and our race of today is eagerly gathering all the grains of wheat, the [...]
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the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter v (evolution)
“There are many difficulties in the way of the universal acceptance of evolution as an established fact, as an obvious law of nature; and, at the foundation of these difficulties, is the Christian belief, which underlies our civilization. The Christian world has believed it to be a literal fact that in six days God created [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter iv (conscience)
“Now bear in mind the following: Appetites and passions create desires; by means of the reasoning faculties, desires create beliefs of which the soul-consciousness, the divine-life within, makes a law, the law of the individual life. This law is the religious faith, and when it is established, the conscience justifies everything in accordance with it [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter iv (conscience)
“This selfhood, this consciousness that is conscious without the effort of thinking, this something that is the man, that thinks without his volition, this vital-principle, we must admit, has been derived from the creative-forces. If this is true and if God is the Cause and Source of creation, then it is derived directly from God, [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter iii (reason and religion)
"There are a people among us denominated Spiritualists. The major part of these people is the legitimate outcome of religious devotion on the part of their parents. Spiritualistic mediums are such by organic structure, which leads them to open up their life-centers to the psychic currents around them. In order to be mediums, they must [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter iii (reason and religion)
“Apparently, two sets of factors come into action to produce this diversity of mind and consciousness: First, the quality of life from which the thought is formed; second, the beliefs of the person. But, in reality, the quality of life, that is, the character of the consciousness—or vital-thought just defined—is determined by the beliefs of [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“” O young girl, a god possesses thee! It is either Pan, or Hekate, or, the venerable Corybantes, or Cybele that agitates thee!”, the chorus says, addressing Phaedra in Euripides. This form of psychological epidemic has been too well-known from the time of the Middle Ages to cite instances from it. The Choroea sancti Viti [...]
Blessed Night, Loves 😊
I Pray All Is Well With Everyone... And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion... For All Your Brothers And Sisters In Spirit. And Loving In Spirit, From The Spirit, Or... Spirit-to-Spirit... Is To Love As The Living God Dwelling Within Us - Our Very Own "Mighty I AM Presence"! And [...]
Blessed Night, Loves 😊
I Pray All Is Well With Everyone... And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion... For All God's Children... And All God's Creation. If That Be The Case... Sincerely... And The Love Of The Living God Truly Blazes Within Each And Every One Of Us... For All God's Children And All [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“Schott explains that by Sian or Shin-Sian are understood in the old Chinese conception, and particularly in that of the Tao-Kiao (Taosse) sect, “persons who withdraw to the hills to lead the life of anchorites, and who have attained, either through their ascetic observances or by the power of charms and elixirs, to the possession [...]