the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxi (exit from the old to the new)

“While heretofore, suggestions have been given that cover the subject of this chapter and those following, yet, as they are associated with thoughts of greater or less magnitude, new to the majority of thinkers, they may have been overlooked. If we were going to ascend a ladder we should place one foot upon the first [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xx (the Image and the Likeness)

“While the gathering of the Body, according to the Revelation, will be the work of a short time, yet we are told that the perfecting of this body, the perfecting of its dominion over the earth, will take a thousand years. It is hardly reasonable to suppose that there is any one now living, even [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xx (the Image and the Likeness)

“In order to help the mind to comprehend so great a thought, let us imagine a man that is both male and female in his own person, builded of molecules which are individual men and women, a Grand Man possessing far more than 288,000 times the power of any individual that we have heretofore known. [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xx (The Image and the Likeness)

“In bringing before your minds this wonderful ultimate of the purpose of God in the creation of the world and of its inhabitants, man, the most that we can do is to call your attention to certain laws and forces already visible and active among men. This ultimate has had no physical standing in the [...]