{"1": {"fulltext": "BF 1272\\nL83 THE\\nCopy 1\\nspiritualism of Nature\\nTHE FORMULA AND FACT OF THE INVISIBLE\\nCO-RELATIONS OF NATURE S ELEMENTS,\\nENERGIES, AND FORCES, DISCOVER\\nAND DEMONSTRATE LIFE AND\\nINTELLIGENCE BEYOND\\nTHE GRAVE.\\n*P4\\nBY\\nPROE W. M. LOCKWOOD,\\nOF CHICAGO, ILL.", "height": "4728", "width": "3228", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "j$\\n51573\\nCopyright, 1899,\\nBy W. M. Lockwood.", "height": "4591", "width": "2939", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "SECOND ou\u00c2\u00bb J t two copies received,\\nLibrary of c\\nOff J\\nINTRODUCTORY.\\nMuch valuable time has been wasted in the speculations\\nof mankind upon the origin of nature and cosmic processes.\\nTime, which if spent in an effort to honor humanity by ex-\\ntending the boundary of human knowledge, and discovering\\nthe value of intellectual development, and in the application\\nof this unfoldment to the existing affairs of this life, would,\\ncenturies ago, have made fraternal and co-operative the\\ncommercial, political and philosophical interests of mankind,\\nand the moral well-being of the units of civilization a reali-\\nzation of the greatest importance. History records that in\\nall ages since the introduction of the priest and priestcraft\\ninto the political, social and economic affairs of life, that\\nthe temporary welfare and progressive interests of the human\\nhave been made subservient to the platitudes of this hier-\\narchy, by the promotion of the welfare and worship of the\\ngods, unknown and unknowable. So widely has this pag-\\nanism prevailed, that writers, to become popular, and those\\nclaiming to be instructors in the public arena, have sought\\nfirst to placate public opinion, by assenting to these mythical\\nideals of a primitive age, that their thought, however worthy\\nor unworthy a place on the page of progress, would at least\\nhave recognition and approval of the time-serving priest and\\nGod worshipers of the age. Everything for the glory of the\\ngods, has been inscribed upon the banners of religious\\nthought in India and Egypt, chanted by priest and friar in\\nPersia and Greece, and sung by creeds of all nations, while\\ndissenting man has been sacrificed in ignominy and shame\\nto these ideals, and the wheels of a progressive civilization\\nheld in the ruts of pagan barbarisms.", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "4 INTRODUCTORY.\\nTHE FIRST GREAT CAUSE.\\nWhat a sentiment of impossibility to apply to infinitude?\\nWhat an inconsistent and unqualified vagary to attach to\\nthe origin of space and time considered as limitless duration\\nand extension? What incoherency of thought, what unbal-\\nanced mentality discourses the origin of the infinite? No\\ncogent reasoner can think of a time when space considered\\nas infinite extension, did not exist. It is beyond the limita-\\ntions of the human intellect to think of a period when dura-\\ntion as a succession of periods, did not obtain.\\nThe logical mind cannot think of an entity that is not\\nbounded by space and time; or of an intelligence however\\npowerful, that is not subject to these cosmic factors. If\\nany of the deities of the past ever had an existence apart\\nfrom human imagination, it must have existed in time and\\nspace, hence could not have created them. The intellect\\ncannot conceive of empty space in the progressions of time,\\nor of an infinite boundless void. A realm of endless noth-\\ningness, with points of nothing is a thought transcending\\neven the speculative imagery of the modern metaphysician.\\nTHE PROVINCE OF SCIENCE.\\nIt is the province of science to trace the unknown through\\nthe aid and analogy of the known; hence to affirm that\\nsomething was made or created from nothing, is contrary to\\nknown facts and unthinkable. To affirm that a god\\ncreated time and space and the elements of cosmic pro-\\ncess from nothing, being himself bounded by these factors,\\nis an expression of inconsistent zeal. The postulate of\\nscience that the elements of nature have eternally existed,\\nwith infinite duration and extension, is the accepted ideal\\nof the scientist who is unbiased by religious schisms, and it\\nis the written premise of nearly every text-book in natural\\nphysics throughout the civilized world.", "height": "4712", "width": "3052", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY. 5\\nNATURE SELF-EXISTENT.\\nThis is taught, and has been taught as the premise of\\nBrahmic theism* and theosophy, since the inception of the\\nvedic Aryan race. The ancient Brahmin taught that nature\\nis the grand cause, not the first cause, but the only cause\\nof all existencies. It is spoken of as that which is invis-\\nible (as a principle) is unsizable, without origin, all-prevad-\\ning, self-existent, without color, eye or ear, eternal mani-\\nfest in all visible creation, and the cause of all created things\\nand beings. This ideal is voiced also in the traditions and\\nmythologies of pre-historic Egypt, and chanted in the songs\\nto Osiris. It is the premise of the known and knowable,\\nthe basis of science and the source from which natural phil-\\nosophy has obtained its truths. Hence we affirm that the\\naphorism that something can be evolved or created from\\nnothing, is not only at variance with the observed facts and\\ndata of all known cosmic processes, but is antipodal to for-\\nmulas of reasoning and is opposed to the rational thought\\nof past ages.\\nIn tracing the order of the unknown in nature, science\\nemploys analogy, logical inference, and the deductive and\\ninductive methods of reasoning. But analogies so applied,\\nmust contain three or more points of parallel coincidence,\\nthe logical inference must be in keeping with syllogistic for-\\nmula, and every deduction must contain one or more induc-\\ntive demonstrative facts.\\nThus in tracing the invisible attributes of nature we note\\nin the evolution of water, that although the gases oxygen\\nand hydrogen are invisible, yet they are co-related, since\\ntheir union by the aid of the electrical spark, promotes the\\nphenomenon of visibility; hence, we deduce that the realm\\nor plane of their co-relation is in a chemical spectrum, or\\ndimension of space beyond human vision; and inductive ex-\\n*Brahma (neuter) means the principles of nature.", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "6 INTRODUCTORY.\\nperiment demonstrates the fact. Now we note in this evolu-\\ntion of water that something is evolved from somethings,\\nwhich science has named oxygen and hydrogen, and classi-\\nfies them as elemental substances. However few or many\\nmay be these substances, we are obliged to consider that\\nonly a very small realm of infinitude has as yet contributed\\nits data of elements, and extended discoveries may add to,\\nrather than diminish the variety of these substances found\\nin nature s laboratory of infinite art. Discoveries of the\\nmodern spectroscope invite the attention of the student to\\nthe fact that the variety of color motion seen in spectrum\\nanalysis, as is witnessed in chlorine or other element of\\nnature, is suggestive of the possibility that these elements\\nand substances contain within themselves diverging molec-\\nular states, since each color or spectra must be the result\\nof some special attribute locked up in the molecular struct-\\nure of each elemental factor.\\nIf in the progressions of physical science, this thought\\nshould be sustained, it will greatly multiply the substances,\\nenergies, forces and modes of motion entering into, and pro-\\nmoting the vast and diversified forms and phenomena of\\ninfinitude.\\nIn addition to the foregoing evidence of the automatic\\ncharacter and factors of time and space, we must add math-\\nematics, as a system of deductive art since its data enter into,\\nand equation all cosmic processes. That these principles of\\nnumerical notation could be created, that there was a time\\nwhen they did not exist in the eternal order of things, is a\\nconcept beyond the lucid imagination of man. Twice two\\nare four, applied to physical things, and this simple equa-\\ntion, like all equations of the physical world, exists as a\\nprinciple, eternal in itself. Now we shall affirm that if\\nthese data of the known be true, or if any one of them be\\ntrue, that a creative power or overruling intelligence con-\\nsidered as a first cause, is an impossible and untenable", "height": "4720", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY. 7\\nconcept. If God considered as an entity of intelligence or\\npower could not and did not make the space he exists in,\\nif he could not and does not evoke the duration we call and\\nmeasure as time, if the equations of mathematics are self-\\nexistent, if the factors called elemental substances be the\\nresult of continuous action and reaction taking place in the\\nlaboratory of infinitude and have eternally existed, if one\\nor all of these are self-existent, the gods of human con-\\nception and adoration possess none of the omnipotence or\\nintelligence ascribed to them by the children of men; and\\nwe shall be obliged to look more deeply into nature s store-\\nhouse for the spiritual sublimity and divinity manifest in\\ncosmic evolution.\\nBut before we enter into this research let us establish\\npostulates by which truth may be verified, and formulas of\\nreasoning, by which the inductions of philosophy are known.\\nTHE HUMAN INTELLECT.\\nA thorough analytical comprehension of the mental func-\\ntions qualifying human intelligence will be necessary here\\nin order that we may determine cogency and logical con-\\nsistency of thought, from the vagaries and incoherent spec-\\nulations existing on the mental page of time. Since the\\nera that gave us the thought of Reid and Kant, Berkeley\\nand Bacon, since the writings of Samuel Bailey %i On the\\nHuman Understanding, since the expressed thought of\\nDescartes, Spinoza and Sir William Hamilton, there have\\nbeen discoveries in mental cerebral physiology that modify\\nthe data and conclusions of these able thinkers and writers\\nupon the formulas of human knowledge.\\nBriefly expressed, these discoveries lead up to the fact\\nthat man s conscious ego or consciousness (sometimes called\\nthe soul principle), is the real entity that receives impres-\\nsions from without through those avenues or electrodes of\\nsensation called the five senses, and that the formula of", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "8 INTRODUCTORY.\\nthese sensations are best comprehended by the term modes\\nof motion, by which is meant that different molecular im-\\npressions made upon the centers or electrodes of vision (the\\neye) evoke the variety of sensation the human has in seeing.\\nThe different sounds one hears are the result of varying modes\\nof motion impacted upon the auditory tract. Each avenue\\nof sensation has its especial centers or electrodes, connect-\\ning the conscious principle of man through these avenues to\\nhis environment. As these electrical avenues vary in char-\\nacter and quality of function on account of purely structural\\nconditions, it will follow that an ever-varying series of sen-\\nsation sequence human existence. Furthermore, it is dis-\\ncovered that man has no conscious sensation until his con-\\nscious ego has been impressed; and these impressions may\\nbe reflected from his surroundings or external environment;\\nthey may be the act of volition, or evoked by the co-rela-\\ntions of ganglionic character belonging to his vascular system.\\nCONSCIOUS VOLITION, THE REAL WORKER IN\\nTHE CITADEL OF THE HUMAN BRAIN.\\nHuman volition is seen to be a servient attribute of con-\\nsciousness, having the power to evoke into action in the\\nnormal brain the centers connecting to the motory system,\\nto call up memory, and reflect, to employ comparison, to\\nmentally weigh, to discriminate, balance and decide. This\\nconscious ego of man, or soul principle, is the real thinker,\\nand the avenues for the promotion of sensation evoking\\nfeeling, sentiment and emotion are bio-plasmatic structures\\nin which his real ego is evolved as a formative principle, and\\nto which it is structurally co-related as an invisible mag-\\nnetic entity and force. Hence it will occur to the close\\nstudent in comparative anatomy and physiology, that with\\ndiverging structures obtaining in these ganglionic tracts of\\nthe human race, there must be a great variety of sensations", "height": "4720", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY. 9\\nand thought, of emotion and mental impressions, qualifying\\nhuman environment.\\nWith all these diverse impressions, thoughts and opin-\\nions the result of diverse structure, how shall we determine\\nfrom the multiplicity of human experiences, what is truth\\nand what is error. First let us inquire how we may know\\ntruth when found, and, having some infallible method to\\ndiscern it, we will know its antithesis by the absence of\\nsome or all of the facts and data, determining the premise\\nupon which truth rests.\\nPOSTULATE OF TRUTH.\\nWith this idea in view, then, we postulate that When-\\never an order of thought, written or orally expressed, agrees\\nwith the unerring formulas of nature in the analysis of its\\nphenomena or the demonstration of a principle, civiliza-\\ntion claims the discovery of truth; because there is no\\nvariation in its hypothesis and in its methods of intelligent\\nanalysis, or the sequences of eternal verification.\\nSCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY.\\nThe pursuit of truth in its application to human advance-\\nment, has necessitated an orderly classification of known\\ndata, and this has given rise to the terms science and\\nphilosophy, which imply not only an intelligent arrange-\\nment of ideas, but the specification and proof of the ideas\\nupon which science depends, in order that philosophy may\\nsequence the completeness of rational and analytical thought.\\nPhilosophy in ancient time was a mixture of speculation,\\nof practice and sentiment; but in modern times the pursuit\\nof truth has taken a well-defined method separating the\\nspeculative from the established forms, and it employs to this\\nend science and our modern civilization regards both\\nscience and philosophy as reasoned truth. If, then,", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "IO INTRODUCTORY.\\nscience and philosophy be u reasoned truth, we shall affirm\\nthat all systems of thought that are not in accord with this\\npremise, are speculative and untenable. Hence it will fol-\\nlow that all philosophy and truth must have their basis in\\nthe eternal principles of nature, and coincide with its facts,\\nor be rejected as unproven and dogmatic assumptions.\\nBefore we can determine whether Modern Spiritualism\\ncan rest securely upon this natural basis of science and\\nphilosophy as reasoned truth, let us inquire what the\\nterm means, and to what it applies. We will make this\\ninquiry the subject matter of our next chapter.", "height": "4720", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nTHE ORIGIN OF THE TERM, -SPIRITUALISM/\\nThe records of history indicate that the term -Spirit-\\nualism is of very ancient origin, and had its inception in\\nspeculations upon the character of the human mind con-\\nsidered as a separate entity from that of the physical organ-\\nism, and representing the conscious, thinking and intellect-\\nual part of man. If we set aside the traditional and\\nmythological views representing the thought of prehistoric\\nEgypt and Greece regarding the character of mind, we shall\\nfind the concept of Spiritualism as an ideal, outlined in the\\nmetaphysical speculations of the Ionian school of philos-\\nophy, and represented by Anaxagoras, who was born five\\nhundred years before the commencement of the Christian\\nera. Anaxagoras, affirmed that all bodies are simply\\naggregations of atoms, and that a bar of gold or iron or\\ncopper was composed of inconceivably minute particles of\\nthe same material; but he did not allow that objects had\\ntaken their shape through accident or blind fate, but through\\nthe agency of a shaping spirit, or -Nous, which he\\ndescribed as infinite, self -potent and unmixed with any-\\nthing else. Nous, he again says, -is the most pure\\nand subtle of all things and has all knowledge about all\\nthings, and infinite power.\\nThis system of thought makes matter or atoms qualita-\\ntive; and it was opposed by Democritus, who, although\\nholding to the atomic theory, affirmed -that all atoms were\\neternally possessed of a primary motion, and that the vary-\\ning or quantitative relation of these promote the basis or\\nground work of nature.\\nii", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "12 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nThus there originated diversity of thought and opinion\\nregarding the character of matter as well as of the mind,\\nwhich, under the gorgeous, but untenable imagination of\\nPlato s mentality gave birth and direction to a distinct\\nschool of speculative philosophy, voiced in his Theaetetus\\nand Sophistes, in which he makes mind and idealism the\\ndominant factors of the universe as well as of knowledge.\\nThis formula of speculative philosophy, in a measure, was\\nheld in check by the dignified but logical method or induc-\\ntion established by Socrates, whose system of reasoning a\\nlittle later on, was supported by the precise and analytical\\nsystem of Aristotle. The Platonic school, viewing nature\\nfrom the realm of mind, received the name of Idealism;\\nwhile the system of thought originating with Socrates and\\nAristotle, viewing nature from the without, from the plane of\\nthe supposed real the objective, became known under the\\nterm realism. We have not time in this article to trace the\\nprogress of these respective systems of thought, but the ad-\\nvocates of Plato s school of Idealism, long before the advent\\nof Christianity, gave it the name of spiritual because it\\nrepresented the realm of mind, and the same school partly in\\nderision, and partly from the assumed position of its oppon-\\nents, classified the inductions of Socrates and the philosophy\\nof Aristotle, as crude and materialistic. Christianity itself was\\na political compromise between Greek skepticism (embracing\\nJudaism and Platonism) and paganism. The Christian\\nholds to the priority of mind over matter, and in this sense he\\nis Platonic. But he also holds to the concept that a super-\\nnatural power apart from nature which he calls God, molds\\nmatter, and this concept is distinctively a pagan platitude.\\nAs ecclesiasticism embraces in all of its forms something of\\nthe Platonic ideal, and voices a supernatural Deity as the\\ncreator and cause of all things a God who operates through\\nthe potency of spirit and matter, it has assumed the name\\nof a spiritual belief, and its supporters and advocates are", "height": "4720", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 1 3\\ncalled Spiritualistic, and these beliefs and creeds, however\\ndiverse, were known under the formula or name of Spirit-\\nualism centuries before the pantheism of Spinoza or the\\ndissertations of Descartes were known. Gradually the\\nterm spiritual has been applied not only to all forms\\nof ecclesiastical belief, but to atheistic Buddhism with its\\nSankhya system of pessimistic speculation, and to the men-\\ntal vagaries of Oriental Brahmanism, with its doctrine of\\nYoga and its ascetic Yoga practices and reincarnations.\\nThus far, our effort has been to trace the inception, origin,\\nand final introduction of the terms Spiritual, Spirit-\\nualistic and Spiritualism, as applied to mental con-\\ncepts, religious ideals and pagan dogmas since the time of\\nAnaxagoras, Let us now apply the yard-stick of inductive\\nlogic, and the test tube of common sense, and see if any\\nof these so-called spiritual beliefs, mental ideals and relig-\\nious propagandisms, come within the mental realm of truth,\\nas voiced in a former chapter.\\nIf nature be infinitude, if all the mutations of time and\\nspace qualify infinitude and are natural, then we reach the\\nconclusion that infinitude had no beginning, no genesis, no\\nfirst cause as a pivot or center of development, and no First\\nCause as a creator or overruling intelligence, hence no\\nsupernatural deity, since there can be nothing supernatural\\nin natural infinity. Therefore we deduce that all systems\\nor schools of thought, that lay their premises of belief in\\nsuper-nature, whether representing a God as a first great\\ncause, or a metaphysical realm apart from natural modes of\\nmotion, are not only untenable, but are impossible postu-\\nlates, since the infinite of possibilities is included in infini-\\ntude.\\nThis criticism applies to ecclesiasticism in all its forms,\\nto Buddhism, Brahmanism, Theosophy ancient and modern,\\nand to all liberal so-called religions that lay claim to an\\noverruling intelligence, or oversoul, and it will appeal", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "14 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nto all consistent thinkers as correct reasoning whose zeal\\nfor their God and public approbation does not invite men-\\ntal perjury, and outrage common sense. A first cause to\\ninfinitude, is an impossible concept, and the supernatural\\nor super-nature apart or outside of the infinite of infinitude\\nis a theological lie.\\nLET THE THINKERS THINK.\\nSince the time of Anaxagoras and Plato, since the specu-\\nlations of the early fathers of the church Catholic, since the\\nwritings of Spinoza and Descartes, there have been great\\ndiscoveries in physical science, disclosing the errors of\\nreligious thought, changing the entire mental aspect of the\\nphysical universe, and qualifying human understanding\\nwith a broader comprehension of man and his environment,\\nand with nature s order of evolution. In no department of\\nnatural physics have these discoveries been more significant,\\nthan in the realm of cerebral mentology. The establish-\\nment and localization of the cortical centers of the motory\\nand sensory system, the discovery that cerebral activity is\\naccompanied by cerebral waste, and that mental processes\\nare accompanied by continuous molecular change in the\\nmaterial convolutions of the brain, overturns, unseats and\\nannihilates the data upon which Plato postulated his Theae-\\ntetus and subsequent writers their discussions upon the\\norder of Human Understanding. These discoveries demon-\\nstrate that the mind, strictly speaking, is not the thinking\\npart of man. Human intellect consists of a thinking\\nentity, and mental fiber connecting incoming modes of\\nmotion, to the citadel of conscious sensation. Cerebral\\nfiber and cells do not possess without the aid of the con-\\nscious principle, sensation per se. They do not possess\\nmemory, volition, or intelligence. They cannot, as will be\\nseen in the nature and order of their structure. If it were", "height": "4720", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. I 5\\nso, sensation memory, volition and intelligence would die a\\nmolecular death with the molecular death of the cells and\\nfiber; and the mortal would have to wait until new cells in\\nthe order of evolution could be newly functioned, and this\\nprocess in the mental realm would be an impossibility. The\\nhuman would become an incoherent, inconsistent, and\\nsenseless bioplasm in an hour s mental effort. If fiber and\\ncell did possess memory and intelligence, we could easily\\naccount for the vagaries of humanity since the continuous\\nwasting of cells and fiber would continually change normal\\nbrain action into cerebral incongruities.\\nBut these discoveries in cerebral physiology are lending\\nadditional emphasis to the fact that the complex structure\\nof cells and their fiber throughout the cerebral organism\\npossess the characteristics of what may be called mental\\nelectrodes, connecting man s conscious ego to objective\\nnature, by which incoming waves from without impress his\\nconscious life principle, evoking thought and mind, hence\\nthese physical structures in all of their varied co-relations\\nqualify the character of thought evolved within, and in\\nvarying degrees limit the boundary of human experiences,\\nby the functional structure of the sensory system. The\\nmotory system is also environed and circumscribed by anal-\\nogous limitations of structure.\\nAll of the phenomena of what is called double con-\\nsciousness and the various phases and mental idiosyncra-\\nsies of humanity can be more fully comprehended in the\\nanalysis of this deeper, and more extended view of cerebral,\\nand physiological anatomy. In the light of these induc-\\ntions, the prevailing opinion that mind is the thinker, will\\nhave to give way to the greater truth that man s con-\\nscious ego is the real thinker the real entity that is im-\\npressed, and thought and mind are the result of these\\nimpressions. In proportion as man s conscious ego is im-\\npressed by data susceptible of verification, he touches the", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "l6 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nrealm of truth; and in proportion as his cerebral physical\\nand functional brain and conscious ego are lacking in molecu-\\nlar rhythm, or are psychologized with erroneous instruction,\\nhe remains a slave to error, and undemonstrable dogma. A\\nknowlege of nature s evolutionary processes will give us a\\nkey to these deeper truths, and make evident the errors of\\nreligious idealism, and consign to the waste basket of time\\nthe supernatural and its metaphysical assumptions, as taught,\\nindoctrinated and postulated as the basis of spirituality and\\nethical ideals. For eventually it will appear that neither\\nspirituality, Spiritualism nor intelligence can be predicated\\nupon the unreal ignorance is not the mother of truth.\\nHaving traced the origin of the term Spiritualism, and\\nhaving seen its thorough misapplication in the realm of\\nsupernaturalism, as voiced in the religious dogmas, creeds,\\ncults and schisms, of past and present forms of thought,\\nlet us seek in the sublime records of nature a place more\\nfitting, than is found in the realm called supernatural, and\\nascribed to the gods. This research will take us into a new\\nfield of thought and inquiry a field untraversed by creeds\\nand cults, a field largely ignored by the ecclesiastical and\\npopular mind, a realm of mental somersaults for the theoso-\\nphist and theologists, a realm largely ignored and unac-\\ncounted for by the reincarnationist, but nevertheless to him\\na place or plane, where the laboratory of infinitude is chiefly\\ninterested in the manufacture of human bodies, as stepping\\nstones, or rungs in the ladder of time, to get sparks of\\nInfinite Intelligence back to their primary luster and om-\\nnipotence.\\nMost wonderful, most careless and capricious is the\\nTheus (god) of theosophy, and transcendently sublime and\\nmiraculous is their system of evoluting away from material-\\nism, from carnal and sensual desire, by constantly reincar-\\nnating into it. We suppose that the process to be con-\\ntinued through the cycles and planetary systems of infini-", "height": "4720", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 1 7\\ntude, may be regarded as real evolution by perpetual in-\\nvolution.\\nBut whatever an investigation of the page of nature may\\nreveal, we shall not find the Theus of theosophy, or the\\nDeus of ecclesiasticism; neither shall we find matter (sci-\\nentifically speaking) the basis of material things hence of\\nmaterialism. From the time of traditional Gonzarte, said\\nto be one of the most distinguished alchemists of ancient\\nGreece, down to the time of Paracelsus, it was the opinion\\nparticularly of that class of investigators who laid the foun-\\ndation of modern chemical science, by seeking to penetrate\\nthe obscure in nature s processes, that invisible substances\\nto which they gave the name of k spirit, were the basis of\\nall forms and types of matter. Some of these ancient\\nthinkers and experimentalists, regarded as matter all solids,\\nfluids and gases, and spiritual substances as the elemental\\nforces underlying these forms of structure and organization.\\nNow they did not consider spirit as a nonentity, nor as a\\nhomogeneous substance, but as entities invisible to the\\neye and undiscermble to the senses, each one possessing\\nspecial characteristics. The idea of spirit as a nonentity\\ncame from the priest alchemist, and so the term im-\\nmaterial, without proper qualifications has been applied\\nto these forces by modern popular writers and pulpiteers,\\nthus continuing to befog the public mentality as to the\\nreal nature and character of etheric substances. If in\\nscience and philosophy, we should employ words and terms\\nto express our exact concept, then it will follow that a sub-\\nstance or its life principle ought not to be used as a synonym\\nfor matter, for the same reason that we do not call an egg\\na chicken, or a pile of lumber a cottage. Such careless\\nmisuse of terms is not in accord with the facts characteriz-\\ning the formula of philosophical evolution. Matter, con-\\nsidered in its evolutionary sense, is a term representing\\na cojnbination of elemental substances y and may be used to", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "1 8 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nexpress a gas, a fluid, or a solid, while the term spirit\\napplies in this connection to the life principle of elemental\\nsubstances. So it will be seen that the term spirit is a\\ngeneral term applied to the invisible active principle of\\nall elemental substances, however diverse these maybe in\\ntheir character and mode of acting, the same as matter is\\na general term, representing the diversified forms of cosmic\\nstructure. Hence, spiritual, invisible life substances are\\nthe builder, and matter in all of its cosmic forms, the re-\\nsult of these in combination. The careful thinker will here\\nnote, that if invisible substances in combination promote\\nform and visibility, then all forms of matter are the result\\nor phenomena of spiritual substances in combination.\\nNOUS.\\nMany of these facts were noted by the ancient alchemist,\\nas will be seen by a careful perusal of the history of the\\nlife of these philosophical savants. The shaping spirit\\ncalled Nous by Anaxagoras, was a concept in this direc-\\ntion and the primary motion attributed to matter by\\nDemocritus, would have been a truth, if matter was pri-\\nmary. The discoveries of the elemental substances had\\nnot been made at the time Democritus wrote. Had he\\nsaid that each substance underlying cosmic process pos-\\nsessed a primary motion of its own, he would have an-\\nnounced the greatest fundamental truth in cosmic physics.\\nNow these truths conceived and suggested by the ancient\\nalchemist, receives an endorsement in the experiments of\\nthe modern physicist, since all forms of matter can be\\nreduced to invisible primary states, and no one knows bet-\\nter than your clear-seeing chemist physicist, that the active\\nlife principle of all elemental substances are better known to\\nscience as invisible modes of motion, and the different\\nnames that science or circumstance has given them, is in\\nconsequence of some special quality or function witnessed", "height": "4720", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 1 9\\nin their mode of action, or of being acted upon m process\\nof combination. The continuous and extended discoveries\\nof these elemental substances by modern investigators, the\\nprinciple of polar affinity which each of these possesses,\\nfor some substances and of polar repulsion for others,\\nestablishes the truth of molecular co-relation, as the basis\\nof cosmic art.\\nThe discoveries along the line of spectrum analysis, which\\nwill eventually ring the death knell of the atomic theory,\\nby proving that a change in the polarity of all substances\\ntakes place before they can enter into a new combination,\\nare important features in this new truth. If a substance\\ngives up its original polarity when it enters into the forma-\\ntion of a new compound, it gives up its atomic structure\\nand characteristics, and this fact is thoroughly demonstrated\\nby spectrum analysis. Now this fact in combining processes\\ndoes not prove that matter is a homogeneous substance\\nas very many seem to think, neither does it prove that ele-\\nmental substances are, or ever w 7 ere homogeneous; it only\\nproves a base of polar affinity belonging to, and qualifying\\nall types and conditions of matter, and molecular co-rela-\\ntion in consequence of it.\\nLet us suggest to all scoffers at the spiritual philosophy\\nand spiritualism, that we shall be able to demonstrate that\\n:he relation the human holds to life beyond the grave, finds\\nits premise and data in the immutable principles of the\\nuniverse we live in, and this relationship could not be dem-\\nonstrated unless infinitude was in its fundamental essences,\\ninfinitely spiritual and infinitely co-related, and man him-\\nself a spiritual evolution.", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "20 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nTHE SPIRITUAL CHARACTER OF NATURE S\\nFORCES.\\nA general popular error obtains regarding the meaning\\nand application of the terms Spirit and Spiritual, as\\napplied to cosmic evolution. The prevailing thought, in-\\ntroduced by theologians and expressed in all ecclesiastical\\nformula, is that the term spirit represents the act of voli-\\ntion or will of an almighty God, who exists as a supernat-\\nural cause to all cosmic processes. They tell us with won-\\nderful assurance that their God is so omnipotent, that his\\nmere volition created the suns and systems of time and\\nspace, and all types of fish and fowl belonging to the deep\\nseas and oceans, and all species of beasts, cattle and\\ncreeping things that live upon the land. But into man\\nhe breathed the breath of life and he became a living\\nsoul. When we ask them if this act of volition on the\\npart of their God is to be understood as a spiritual act\\nwe are invariably answered in the affirmative. Now, if we\\naccept this postulate of the origin of nature, then as sure as\\nmathematics, their God is the author of matter and material\\nthings. If he created all things, if without him nothing\\nwas made that is made, if he operates through law which\\nhe established, then God is the author of materialism, and\\nthe materialists, and not the Christians, are his chosen\\npeople. To get around these logical conclusions, they tell\\nus that since the curse of Adam, that matter has been\\n1 dead, crude, and inert, because their God cursed the\\nground and all living things, and that since that time matter\\nrequires the active power of his presence and divine spirit,\\nto mould it into form. If we accept this platitude of a curse,\\nthen we are obliged to note that God cursed all the creations\\nmade by his former spiritual volition, even his own breath of\\nlife that made man a living soul. Hence we have a right to\\nconclude that God cursed a portion of himself, and if mat-\\nter be dead and crude and inert, then just so much of the", "height": "4720", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 21\\noriginal spirit of God is now dead and crude and inert.\\nHowever inconsistent and incongruous this pagan concept\\nseems, it is the prevailing ideal of the age, in all Catholic,\\nProtestant and ecclesiastical countries of modern times.\\nAnd upon this primitive fetichism and Oriental concept is\\npostulated the duality of matter and spirit, matter the\\nmaterial to be worked into form, and spirit as an intelligent\\nforce that moulds it into being and gives it life. To this\\npagan vagary the entire school of ecclesiasticism and the-\\nology and theosophy give assent. During the last twenty-\\nfive years we have asked hundreds of theologians where\\nmatter came from if it were dead and crude? Now, they\\nknow that if they admit that it came originally from God\\nthe question will arise: Then what makes this part of God s\\noriginal spirit crude? then they will crawfish and evade\\nthe question. A few, however, notably the Catholics, and\\nhere and there a Protestant clergyman, will refer to the\\ncurse of the ground, as a part of the divine plan the\\nsame as they refer to the incest of the Holy Ghost with an\\nunsoliciting Jew maiden as a part of the divine plan. M It\\nseems an unaccountable mental phenomenon that so large\\nan element of civilization adhere to this Oriental and\\nuntenable concept, when every scientific college and every\\nlaboratory of chemical physics in the civilized world dem-\\nonstrates the errors of these barbarisms. Come with me,\\ndear reader, into the experimental department of l,s\\nmodern chemist physicist. Here are two jars containing\\nseparately oxygen and hydrogen. We unite them with\\nan electrical spark, and with something of a crash and\\nclash as the two elements meet in combintaion, there\\nis formed upon the receiver a tiny drop of water. We\\nwitness the experiment and phenomenon with interest. Let\\nus ask our physicist a question. Did God mould these two\\nelements together by the immediate presence and applica-\\ntion of his power? No. Was there any original intel-", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "22 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nligence in either the oxygen or hydrogen gas before they\\nwere united No. Is there any intelligence or con-\\nsciousness in the water now? No. Then tell us,\\nMr. Physicist, what did unite these two diverse elements\\nA principle of reciprocal polarity belonging to each ele-\\nment. g Can you prove it I can. But to do this I\\nshall have to break up this drop of water into its original\\nelements and weigh them. Thanks to the accuracy of\\nmodern science, we can do this and save the minutest par-\\nticle of each. Again, we apply electricity in a little dif-\\nferent manner than in our former experiment, this time\\nto decompose the water, and are rewarded by securing\\nthe original elements. Now, we will weigh them with a\\npair of scales so nicely adjusted that we can detect the\\npresence or absence of the one-hundredth part of a grain.\\nWe find by actual weight that we had oxygen 88 T 9 F\\nparts and hydrogen I iy 1 parts. So we reach the conclu-\\nsion that it takes precisely 88^ parts of oxygen by weight\\nto overcome the individual and original polarity of the\\nhydrogen; and in the reaction of the hydrogen it only takes\\nii y i_ part of it to overcome the individual polar tension of\\nthe oxygen in this combination. The polar tension of each\\nelement being mutually overcome, a new order of polarity\\nis established by these combining elements, bringing with it\\nor evolving the phenomenon of water, and this principle of\\npolar equipoise in process of combining elements and their\\narithmetical proportions, is the real base of\\nTHE CHEMICAL BALANCE,\\nfor here we see expressed polar action and reaction\\nand here originated the term, that in nature s processes of\\nevolution, action and reaction are equal; and this\\ntruth is the premise of all chemical equations.\\n44 Mr. Physicist, were these elements homogeneous in", "height": "4720", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 2X\\ntheir structure before they were united? N H\\ndo you know it? First, by the way they individually\\nact and are acted upon in other combinations; and, second,\\nby spectrum analysis. Is the water you have evoked a\\nhomogeneous compound? It is. Then how do you\\naccount for this homogeneity when it is composed of two\\ndiverse substances? 5 By a change taking place in chemical\\ncombination, known to chemical science as a change of\\nchemical spectrum, 9 which means in this experiment that\\nthe two elemental substances have entere i intc a ml in\\ntion promoting visibility, whereas formerly they were in-\\nvisible gases. It also means that the molecules of each of\\nthese substances have been raised to a higher molecular\\ntension by the action of electricity to a plane of molecu-\\nlar rhythm when they unite in the formation of something\\nentirely unlike themselves. Has oxygen and hydrogen\\nLire In a manner! Each of these elements possesses\\nan active principle of its own, which is known under the\\nterm of k life principle/ and science sometimes calls this\\nkind of life molecular life to distinguish it from some of\\nthe higher and more complex forms of existence. But the\\nbetter term for all elemental substances is 4 the active prin-\\ncir .e. s::::e *.ve e.-.shy ::;r:e::eni :::i: :he ac::ve prin-\\nciple of oxygen is entirely unlike that of nitrogen or any\\ne: eLe\u00e2\u0080\u0094en:. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Mr. P~ys:::s:, v.- na: i: y:u ::.ei:: by the\\n:er::; polarity It has been discover ei thai all ener-\\n^;:5 .:::.:::l substances a.ni ::::r.s :r. ::e: ;_re\\ncapable of acting and of being acted upon in chemical an i\\nphysical combination. This fact demonstrates the universal\\nprinciple of attraction and repulsion, characterizing all forms\\nof energy, and to it has been given the name of polar::\\nithout polar attraction there could be no molecular affin-\\nities, and without polar repulsion there could be no special\\nformative processes in nature. And without reciprocal\\npolarity all substances and forms of matter would be in", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "24 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nreality dead; since none of them could act or be acted\\nupon. Reciprocal polarity is the rhythm of infinitude. It\\nis the basis of the beautiful in form in evolutionary proces-\\nses, in leaf and flower, in plant, tree or man. In mental\\nrealms, it is the foundation of a true system of social ethics,\\nmaking wider the plane of social art and enjoyment, and it\\nis the key to happy conjugal relations and harmonious\\noffspring.\\nNow, Mr. Physicist, we want to ask you another question.\\nDo you believe that these invisible active or life principles\\nof elemental nature are of spiritual character It will be\\nnecessary in answering this question, that we fully under-\\nstand each other. If you mean by the term 4i spirit, the\\nbreath of a supposed God who is said to be superior to\\nnature, or if you mean that the mental act of volition of this\\nGod, is spirit, then I shall answer without qualification, No!\\nBut if you mean that the active life principles of oxygen, hy-\\ndrogen, nitrogen, or carbon, or any of the seventy elements\\nalready discovered, are of spiritual character, I shall enter\\na strong affirmative, for the following reasons: Physical\\nscience had its inception with the ancient alchemists. These\\nphilosophical savants laid the foundation of chemical physics,\\nand with limited appliances and apparatus, divided nature\\ninto four forms of expression solids, fluids, gases, and\\nspirit. The term spirit was applied to the invisible of\\nnature s attributes. With the alchemist the term spirit\\nmeant the invisible, not because it was thought to be the\\nbreath of a God, or any part of a deity, but simply a term\\nexpressive of the active, invisible life principle of a sub-\\nstance or element of nature.\\nIt is said that the Egyptian Hermes, who was worshiped\\nas a god in the eleventh Egyptian dynasty, attributed to\\nmatter a spiritual force. And Paracelsus of the fifteenth\\ncentury witnessing the incineration of solids and the evap-", "height": "4720", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 2 5\\noration of fluids exclaimed Alla-geist Alla-geist! all\\nis spirit, all is spirit.\\nNow the modern chemist discovers that these invisible\\nactive principles of elemental substances, are the actu-\\nating energies operating in the promotion of every phe-\\nnomenon of nature. Thus, the active principle of oxygen\\ngas upon the glands of respiration of all breathing animals,\\nand upon the capillary structures of all forms of plasmatic\\ncharacter in process of evolution, is to sustain the life and\\nassist in the development and perpetuation of the animal\\nor plant. What the active principle of oxygen really is,\\nno chemist or physicist knows. That it is an energy that\\nassists in the promotion of life is certain, and that as an\\nenergy it is as spiritual as the life it sustains, whether that\\nlife be plasmatic or bio-plasmatic, is equally certain; other-\\nwise, it could not be co-related to it upon planes of recipro-\\ncal polarity.\\nFurthermore, the modern chemist finds that every ele-\\nment thus far discovered, has the power to act, and to be\\nacted upon, hence, as before stated, they are polar, and are\\nthus able to enter into chemical combination and the evo-\\nlution of form.\\nUntil science finds some other term more applicable as a\\ngeneral definition to these invisible active forces of nature,\\nwe shall affirm that the term spirit and spiritual are\\nthe most consistent and expressive of any thus far known.\\nThis position with its definition will appear concise and\\nlogical, when the human intellect comprehends that all\\nforms of life and matter are infinitely co-related to these\\nchemical factors of time and space. There can be no phe-\\nnomenon either physical or psychic without the support of\\nthese elements. We know that there is a large class of\\npseudo Spiritualists who claim that chemical forces have\\nnothing to do with spirit, that spirit is something es-\\nsentially finer than mere chemical force thus making a", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "26 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\ndistinction without demonstration, in nature s order and\\nformula of growth and development, and ignoring not only\\nall cosmic facts, but the very fundamental truth of the\\nspiritual philosophy, and the continuity of natural principle.\\nHow limited the intellect that cannot discern in the phe-\\nnomena of objective nature, the presence of the spiritual\\nforces expressing themselves in rhythmic combination in\\nevery flower and tree, in the sublimity and art of nature s\\ncrystallizations, and in the evolution of her plasmatic\\nand bio-plasmatic forms of life What indifferent ignorance\\nis this, that inhales the breath of oxygen, and exhales car-\\nbonic gas that drinks water and eats bread, yet has not\\nreflected that the invisible spiritual forces of these com-\\npounds support his physical life through process of assimi-\\nlation What mental delusion is this, that amid all the\\ndemonstrations of modern science, still continue to teach\\nthe supernatural and mysterious, the metaphysical and im-\\npossible, as the premise of progression, and the basis of\\nlife here and hereafter\\nLET THE THINKERS THINK\\nWith a wider, deeper and truer consideration of nature\\nand her spiritual forces, the metaphysical bridge that tran-\\nscendentalists and ecclesiasticism invented to span twixt\\nspirit and matter, will be found a delusion an invention of\\nthe priest metaphysician to exact toll from mortals, before\\nthey cross to the other side. A cunning device, and an\\nartful patent granted as claimed, by an unknown God to a\\nworthless hierarchy a bankrupt compact. A clearer view\\nof nature and her invisible attributes, reveals that we\\nlive now in spiritual infinitude, where all forms of matter\\nand all types of existences are only the ever-changing and\\nvarying phenomena of invisible spiritual forces, elements\\nand energies, and that these are infinitely co-related, is\\nshown in all analysis of matter and motion and form.", "height": "4720", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 27\\nIt will be a day of real intellectual growth to the theo-\\nlogian and theosophist, when, sensing that ail elements and\\nenergies of nature, combine upon a plane of reciprocal\\npolarity in the promotion of every form and type of life,\\nthey discover that Involution with its theories of un-\\nrolling and unfolding, is a mental delusion, for the\\nreason that whatever unites in nature s crucible of develop-\\nment, must conform to these inexorable principles of recip-\\nrocal polarity. No spark or molecule of n divine intelli-\\ngence can act upon matter or substance without first\\nbecoming polar to it, and then it will have to look out for\\nreactions.\\nNo soul of a Socrates can possess the mental fiber of a\\nchild, without first becoming polar to the embryotic cell of\\nmental convolutions. Such an effort on the part of Socra-\\ntes, would kill the child and damage Socrates soul. The\\nlaw of The Conservation of Energy, depends upon prin-\\nciples of reciprocal polarity.\\nA DAY OF SAVING GRACE.\\nIt will be a day of real saving grace, for the Christian\\nsaint and sinner alike, when, sensing that all of nature s\\nelements and forces are polar, and that they combine upon\\nthis inherent principle, they discover that their God is\\nout of a job; and Overruling Intelligence ceases longer\\nto rule. If this God made the principles of polarity for the\\nelements of infinitude, he lost his job by that act, for the\\nreason, that he can no longer overrule, without breaking\\nup existing polarities. A change in the polar tension of\\noxygen, would kill all forms of life, and promote chaos in\\nall spheres. Let the Thinkers Think, and Give God a Holi-\\nday.", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "28 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nTHE EVOLUTION OF FORMATIVE PRINCIPLES\\nAND OF FORMS OF MATTER AND LIFE, BY\\nTHE ACTION AND REACTION OF FORMATIVE\\nOR SHAPING ENERGIES, COMPRISE THE REAL\\nEVOLUTION IN NATURE S LABORATORY OF\\nSPIRITUAL ART.\\nThe greatest discoveries in modern science, are those\\nthat give us a deeper insight into nature s secret processes,\\nenabling the thinker to trace in greater exactitude the won-\\nderful rhythm qualifying the beautiful and the sublime,\\noperating in the domain of the invisible attributes of phy-\\nsical nature. For untold ages the world s ablest and most\\nphilosophical thinkers and savants, have mistaken the\\nphysical world we see, for the real world. For unknown\\ncenturies, they have regarded the phenomena of nature,\\nwith something of superstition, and clothed it with inco-\\nherent speculations. Besides, the pulse of social approba-\\ntion, comes in closest touch to him, who thinks most closely\\nin unison with the popular mind. Then again, the philo-\\nsophic Thinker is human, is not possessed of insane egotism,\\nand is liable to conclude that the concensus of public opin-\\nion is more wise than he, hence he drifts along with its tidal\\nwave. But during the last quarter of a century so many\\ndiscoveries have challenged the attention of the Thinker,\\nhave stimulated the physicist to closer investigation and\\naroused the chemist to deeper analysis, and the physiologist\\nto renewed investigation of the functions of the vascular\\nsystem of man, and the structural anatomy of flowers\\nand shrubs, until the deeper recesses of nature have\\nyielded sufficient evidence against old systems of assump-\\ntive speculation, as to challenge their value in the higher\\nconsideration of a true civilization. The result of these\\ndiscoveries are such, that the modern physicist will tell\\nyou that we live in a realm of physical and psychic", "height": "4780", "width": "3204", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\n2 9\\nphenomena. Physical in its external appearance only, but\\npsychic (molecular) in its method of acting upon, and im-\\npressing human consciousness.\\nThe modern chemist tells us that in his laboratory of\\nexperiment, that in the compound forms of matter that are\\nvisible, he has discovered an invisible actuating energy, as\\nthe result of the combination. Hence the compound we\\nsee is only the phenomenal expression, of an invisible\\nformative principle or force. Thus, pure lime is the\\noxide of the metal calcium, and is a white caustic alkaline\\npowder. Nov/ the powder we see is not the real entity or\\nlife principle of lime. The eye cannot see caustic proper-\\nties. The real life of the lime is an invisible spiritual\\nenergy or force, the result of those chemical reactions from\\nwhich this form of matter is evolved, and what we do see\\nis only the phenomenon of invisible forces in combination.\\nLime has very great resistance to heat. We cannot see\\nthis property of resistance, any more than we can see its\\ncaustic characteristics. Both of these factors are an invisi-\\nble molecular combination, comprising the active principle\\nof the compound we do see. Thus everywhere we turn\\nand look upon objective nature, we are confronted with the\\nphenomena of invisible forces and energies, promoting\\nvisibility of form, the form force being actuated into\\nphysical expression by a combination induced in an invisi-\\nble chemical spectrum. Let us amplify this truth by refer-\\nring the reader to the evolution of water, with which per-\\nhaps he will be acquainted. The basic elements of water,\\nas is well known, are oxygen and hydrogen gas. Each of\\nthese gases is invested with an active principle, known as\\nthe life principle of these elements. These gases cannot\\nbe seen, but when they are united by a current of electricity,\\nthe two active principles of these elements unite and form\\na visible fluid. The real action and reaction of the com-\\nbining molecules have taken place (in scientific language)", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "30 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nin an invisible chemical spectrum. Zollner, called this\\nspectrum The Fourth Dimension of Space. The first\\nthree dimensions being, according to this savant, length,\\nbreadth and thickness, while his fourth dimension meant\\nthe invisible reactions obtaining in the molecular structure\\nof the combination, that promoted, length, breadth and\\nthickness. The constant expression of this phenomenon of\\ninvisible forces promoting visibility of form, has led up to\\none of the greatest inductions of all ages. It is this, that\\nin the laboratory of infinitude\\nNATURE EVOLVES FORMATIVE ENERGIES\\nas her real evolutions, while what we see of objective\\nnature, is only the visible temporary garment, of the invisi-\\nble structure within. It has taken the physicist and chemist\\na long time to fully comprehend the significance and value\\nof this truth, although it is manifest in all objective nature,\\nand demonstrated in every experiment that can be made.\\nLet us apply a little inductive reasoning to confirm this\\nfact. It is a postulate of chemical science That the cen-\\ntral tendency of elements in combination, is to unite in the\\nevolution of something entirely unlike the elements per se.\\nThis postulate is the accepted basis of chemical physics\\nthroughout the civilized world, and its verification is wit-\\nnessed in all chemical compounds.\\nAccepting this postulate as a fact, we witness the con-\\ntinual growth and evolution of all species of flowers and\\nshrubs, and all types of existences, which phenomena could\\nnot occur unless there was evolved in each species a forma-\\ntive energy of shaping and protecting character, qualifying\\neach form of matter and each type of life, for the reason,\\nthat the action or impress of each element upon the flower\\nand shrub, would continually change the entire character or\\nthe growth. If we mix salt into water, the combination is\\nno longer water, or salt, but the union of the two. If we", "height": "4803", "width": "3174", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 3 1\\nagain mix into this salt water sugar, its chemical character\\nis again changed from its former condition. Here we see\\noperative the postulate of chemical combination given above.\\nBut we can turn upon the plant life, water, salt water,\\nsweetened salt water, ammonial water, and very many\\nother compounds, and amid these reactions and other cata-\\nclysmic changes of elemental kind it grows and retains its\\nindividual type and form and characteristics.\\nHere also we witness the expression of the principles of\\npolar attraction, by which the plant attracts from the\\netheric atmospheres of space those elements necessary for\\nits growth, and of polar repulsion, by which the plant repels\\nand refuses to assimilate elements and compounds not\\nsuited to its individual development. All of these facts\\nattest the evolution of a formative energy as 4 a shaping\\nforce, as the real entity evolved; and this formative\\nenergy protects the life principle of the plant in its normal\\nevolution, from the encroachments of non-rhythmic ele-\\nments, and as a shaping force its tendency is to preserve\\nthe integrity and character of the type of life and structure\\nevolved.\\nWherever we turn, in whatsoever realm of evolution we\\nseek, whether in geological stratas of rock formation, in\\nmineral formations, in the structure and character of soils,\\nin vegetable life, in tree or forest, in the lower forms of\\narticulate life, in vertebrate and invertebrate species, in\\nmammal and man, we sense the evolution of this forma-\\ntive life principle as the real entity evolved and amid the\\nconstant reactions of invisible elemental forces, and the per-\\npetual changes incident to each type of cosmic growths, we\\nstand face to face with the fact, that the infinite of cosmic\\ngrowths is promoted by the omnipotence of nature s spirit-\\nual energies, and that these combine in a spectrum invisi-\\nble to human vision, in the formation of every type of\\nenergy, and every expression of form simple and complex.", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "32 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nThis truth being evident in every manifestation of nature,\\nwe deduce: That the real actuating energies and forces of\\nnature, are of spiritual character, invisible to the eye, and\\ntheir action and reaction, and combination, being in an in-\\nvisible chemical spectrum, evokes a formative principle and\\na shaping force, which although unseen in its molecular\\ncharacteristics, is a magnetic entity per se, and the form it\\npromotes, is the ever-changing phenomenon of visible\\ngrowth, through which throbs in molecular rhythm this\\nmagnetic entity as its real life principle and force its soul\\nin process of development.\\nBefore this sublime truth of nature in evolution, let\\nshortsighted materialism uncover its head in humiliation;\\nand theology in all of its pagan forms, stand abashed, and\\ntheosophyin its sensuality of reincarnations, bow in divine\\nrecognition of nature s superior art. Let the gods of human\\nimagination and passion, retire with their ghoulish caprice\\nto the mountain darkness of the supernatural, where they\\nhad their birth there let them die. And let humanity\\nrise from its long servitude of ignorance and read in this\\nmorning light of a new century, its complete intellectual\\nemancipation.", "height": "4803", "width": "3174", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 33\\nNATURE S SPIRITUAL ELEMENTS AND FORMA-\\nTIVE FORCES, INFINITELY CO-RELATED UPON\\nTHE PLANE OF POLAR RECIPROCITY.\\nIt was not our intent in the limit of a treatise of this\\ncharacter, to point out the order of cosmic evolution, but\\nrather to trace the infinite truth of co-related spiritual ener-\\ngies, so far as modern physical science has been able to\\nnote and determine. We have seen in a former chapter\\nthat all elements of nature, and compound forms of matter\\nare capable of acting and of being acted upon, and this fact\\ngave expression to the terms polar and polarity. We have\\nalso noted that science has to admit the evolution of a\\nformative principle as the real entity evolved, and that this\\nentity of individuality, this shaping life force is of mag-\\nnetic character, the life that promotes the form we see.\\nWe shall be able to understand these life forces better, if\\nwe regard them as electrodes capable of action and reaction,\\nof attracting and repelling. We see these factors of formative\\ncharacter expressing through their infinite variety of struct-\\nure, the phenomena of time and space. Some of these forma-\\ntive processes are simple, many are complex in their molec-\\nular organization. Whether manifest in the crystallizations\\nof rocks, stones, metals, soils, or noted in the great variety\\nof plasmatic or bio-plasmatic forms of life, each formative\\nand shaping electrode of life character, attracts under nor-\\nmal conditions what is necessary for its growth, and repels\\nelements not polar to its invisible magnetic individuality.\\nThis we note in the development of bulb, plant, tree or\\nanimal. During the day there is impacted upon the plant,\\nshrub or tree, through the action of light and heat, ele-\\nments reciprocal to its growth. Night comes with her seance\\n*L,et the scoffers at spirit materialization learn a lesson from this fact\\nin nature s art. By a change in chemical spectrum the plant assumes\\nvisibility. By a change in chemical spectrum the silver held in solution", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "34 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nchamber of molecular change, and the spectrum of invisi-\\nble forces and elements that were impressed during the\\naction of light and heat materialize into forms of growth,\\nvisible to the eye. This process of attraction and accretion,\\nwhether manifest at certain points of crystallization in rock\\nand soil, or noted in the capillary reactions of plant life,\\nor traced through the assimilative glands and processes of\\nanimal life, indicates the formative and shaping process\\nobtaining within.\\nThe ether of infinitude seems to be the repository for all\\nthe spiritual substances and factors in nature s laboratory\\nof cosmic art. All types of matter can be reduced to\\ninvisibility, and in this form possess an attraction for the\\nether of space. And from out this ether of space, contain-\\ning as it does the spiritual elements and substances of cos-\\nmic character, the electrodes or centers of formative char-\\nacter, attract the elements necessary for its development,\\nby invisible modes of molecular motion and co-relation.\\nBut it will be asked, where did these electrodes or centers\\nof formative character come from To this we answer,\\nBy the blending and union of spiritual energies upon a\\nplane of polar and molecular rhythm, induced by heat,\\nlight and electro reaction and reciprocal tension in the com-\\nbining molecules. Let us look at this fact. By the electro\\ntension of oxygen and hydrogen upon a plane of polar\\nreciprocity, requiring just an exact number of parts and\\nfractions of a part of each element by weight we have the\\nmaterializes into metal in the art of electro-plating. By a change in\\nchemical spectrum the landscape scene or other picture, materializes\\ninto visibility, from invisible modes of action, by development on the\\nphotographic plate. By a change of chemical spectrum disease ma-\\nterializes into pathological form. By a change in chemical spectrum\\nthe spirit life of those out of the body, may materialize and be seen, by\\nthe same eternal principle of nature. And by a change of chemical\\nspectrum in mental realms, civilization hopes to evolve rational thought\\nin -the pulpit and pew. There is no phenomenon in nature without\\nchange in chemical spectrum.", "height": "4803", "width": "3174", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 35\\nphenomenon of water an evolved, visible fluid from invisi-\\nble elements. Here we see operative the shaping energies,\\nthat evolves the visible from the invisible.* The common\\nsponge is a low form of vegetable life. Its anatomical\\nstructure is composed largely of silex, a chemical com-\\nbination of silicon with oxygen. This form of silicon is\\nknown to be the result of the combining proportions of\\nthese elements entering into its structure, the same as other\\nforms of silicon obtain by other elemental combination.\\nBetween the spicula of the sponge structure we find a pro-\\ntoplasm containing largely oxygen and hydrogen. Here\\nagain is manifest the shaping energies contained in this es-\\npecial combination, which qualifies and individualizes\\nsponge life, as an evolution from spiritual substances. A\\nstudy of the Polypi, particularly of the variety known as\\nanthozoa will furnish data of value here. The polyp-home\\n(polypidom) is a calcareous deposit of its own secretions,\\nand contains carbonate of lime and a trace of calcium con-\\ntained in the water of the ocean. The polyp itself, a species\\nof zoophyte, possess an oval-shaped body, which it is capa-\\nble of projecting out of its home, and withdrawing it at\\npleasure, has a mouth in the anterior or fore part of its\\nbody, which is surrounded by a fringe. This mouth is the\\nonly opening of its digestive system or canal. Its food is\\nsea water and the microscopic forms of life it contains.\\nA close analysis of the body of the polyp, discovers pro-\\ntoplasm, oxygen and hydrogen, calcareous substances, and\\na trace of calcium in solution. It grows by gemmatioji,\\n{budding) although in the germinal sacks of one variety\\nare found ova, and in another of the same species sperma-\\ntozoa. Here is manifest the evolution of life possessing\\n*A combination of sal-ammoniac with a carbon or of sulphuric acid\\nwater with a carbon and many other chemical compounds with a carbon\\nevolves light, heat, electricity and chemical action. All of these are\\nu shaping- energies.", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "36 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nsensation, by and through the co-relations of spiritual ener-\\nergies and forces of nature as found in certain tracts of\\nocean life. When you change the thermo of coral life,\\ngemmation ceases, and coral life per se ceases to mani-\\nfest. Let us ask the reader and thinker, are not the warmth,\\nthe protoplasm containing oxygen and hydrogen, and the\\ncalcium and calcareous substances, shaping factors in this\\nevolution And are not these factors rhythmically and\\narithmetically co-related to this species of cosmic life\\nLet the Thinkers Think.\\nHUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS,\\nAND ITS CO-RELATIONS.\\nThus far, we have only briefly pointed out the reciprocal\\nco-relations of elemental energies and forces that promote\\nthe infinite expression and variety of form and type of mat-\\nter, found in cosmic evolution. We have shown that no\\nelement or substance of nature grows by its own inherent\\nreactions, only as it enters into partnership called\\nco-relation does it aid in the promotion of form. It does\\nnot increase its own substance by this combination, contra-\\nwise, it gives up its individuality its polarity, when it\\nenters into the evolution of matter, and assists in evoking\\na formative energy. As this process of combining takes\\nplace in an invisible spectrum, it was called psychic, by the\\nancient Greek savant, which means, breath or soul,\\nor the general life principle as he conceived all development\\n*But there is a large class of idealists who will affirm that it takes\\nsomething else besides chemical reactions to induce life per se. Now\\nthere is no evidence of this something else, and if there was, it would\\nonly be a factor with other factors and subject to similar chemical reac-\\ntions. Frost or heat in their omnipotence kills the germ of life in seeds,\\nand overrules Divine Mind and Overruling Intelligence and this\\n1 Something Else in the life manifest in an incubating egg.", "height": "4803", "width": "3174", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 37\\nof physical form to be the result of psychic influences.\\nModern science employs the term molecular, in speak-\\ning of these combinations, meaning an invisible co-relation\\nobtaining between the molecules of combining elements.\\nAs science finds this formula of invisible co-relation and\\ncombination to be universal in every realm of space, we\\nhave affirmed the term spirit as a term of general and\\nspecific import, to be most expressive of elemental sub-\\nstances; and the term spiritual, equally applicable to\\nexpress the invisible modes of motion, by which all sub-\\nstances are related. This conclusion will seem both rational\\nand logical when we sense that without these substances\\nnothing was evolved that is evolved, and without these\\nmodes of motion there can be no expression of energy or\\nforce in brief, no phenomenon in infinitude.\\nLet us now trace human consciousness as an evolution in\\nnature to the same order of cosmos in process of develop-\\nment. The modern physicist finds that the blending of\\nreciprocal magnetic spheres of combining elements, to be\\nthe basis of a new form. So in human evolution the blend-\\ning of reciprocal magnetic spheres in the laboratory of\\nhuman art, is the basis and starting point of individual\\nhuman existence. The principles of human development\\nhave always existed, but the evolution of the individual has\\nits inception the same as other types of matter and life.\\nHis soul or life principle is a combination of shaping ener-\\ngies belonging to, and qualifying the vital and mental states\\nof parentage. When these vital forces combine upon a\\nplane of physiological or functional polarity, we may expect\\nthoroughly vitalized offspring. When these magnetic\\nspheres blend in mental and intellectual rhythm, as well as\\nin vital, we may consistently expect children that will\\ndevelop brain power and the genius of mental action.\\nWhen the vitality of parents is overtaxed, or is low and\\ndiseased, and when the mental states of father or mother", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "38 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nare discordant, we may as certainly expect the birth of the\\ndemented or some of the incongruous mental and physical\\ntypes of human existence, which, while increasing a nation s\\nnumbers, they never add to its genius or aid its civilization.\\nThey comprise a very large portion of the human popula-\\ntion and may always be known by irascibility of tempera-\\nment and disposition, by their tendency to court the mar-\\nvelous and mysterious, and to entertain vagaries and incon-\\nsistent ideas. The ecclesiastical element representing this\\nirrational tendency of mentality, are easily cajoled into the\\nidea and belief that one of the Gods of mytholgy of incest-\\nuous nature, once had an immaculate Son; and a belief on\\nthis son and his power to persuade or coax (called i interces-\\nsion his father saves their miserable half-born souls from\\nthe Hell of Ignorance. Like promotes like, was a prin-\\nciple in nature, before it zvas known to philosophy.\\nFrom the blending of the spermatozoon into the female\\novum, we can trace to-day the evolution and changes\\nevoked in the maternal matrix, until the embryo reaches\\nthe realm of the human, in shape and form. And through\\nsuccessive evolutionary changes until this form of love art is\\nborn into an atmosphere of oxygen, and begins its mortal\\ncareer its changes of development are known. Its sym-\\nmetry of form and perfect mold of limb indicates the won-\\nderful ability of the divine artist Nature, when operating in\\naccord with vital processes and reciprocal polar economy.\\nA glance at the brain convolutions already outlined in the\\ninfant, is sufficient to determine that under the protection\\nof intelligence, a genius is born to sway the age.\\nDuring youth, and through the coming years of life, we\\nnote the evolution of the formative life ego through\\nglands of assimilation. This formative life ego and shap-\\ning energy, in conformity to nature s universal formula of\\ndevelopment, grows the physical body in size, and changes\\nits functional status with incoming years, assisted by the", "height": "4803", "width": "3174", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 39\\noxygen of the atmosphere, by water and foods. The con-\\nscious ego assimilates the spiritual character of these sub-\\nstances and compounds, and without these supports, the\\nlife principle of the human could not be maintained in the\\nbody.\\nThis fact of itself is evidence of the spiritual character of\\nelements, substances and compound forms of matter which\\nas foods, grow into larger physical expression the body, and\\nand stronger magnetic power, the spiritual ego of man.\\nThe human brain as a mental electrode, now thoroughly\\ndeveloped in its cerebral convolutions, becomes a central\\nstation, through the structure of which, his conscious ego\\nis impressed, and in which it is affined and co-related. The\\nmagnetic co-relation between man s conscious ego as\\na formative principle, and the cerebral fiber and cell which\\nit evolves, qualities cell and fiber with electro tension, by\\nwhich his consciousness is impressed through the sensory\\nsystem, and through which as the real worker and active\\nagent, volition commands or induces energy and motion in\\nthe motary system. Disturb or impair these cell centers\\nand their connecting fiber in the sensory tracts, and con-\\nsciousness is only feebly connected to the outside or object-\\nive world; hence consciousness is not clear-visioned or\\nclear-sensed. If the human is born with imperfect sensory\\ntracts in the cerebral realm, his consciousness is less con-\\nscious, and he is a dullard, a fool or an idiot, in mental ex-\\npression, in proportioyi as the sensory structure lacks sj m-\\nmetry and high mental tension. When the Thinker under-\\nstands that the formative and shaping force that induces\\nthis abnormal structure, is largely and generally the prod-\\nuct of parentage of hereditary weakness, of carelessness,\\ndisease, vice, abnormal sensuality and appetite, he will\\nhave a correct view of the importance of intelligent gener-\\nation and gestation as a basis for intellect and moral life.\\nA belief in sensual gods and sensually begotten saviours,", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "40 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\nand sensual virgins, never has, and never will save this\\nelement of humanity, from the errors incident to incoher-\\nency of consciousness and animalistic tendencies. Let us\\neducate these careless teachers and promulgators of vice\\nthese dealers in cheap certificates of atonement, for\\ncash down, to a plane of rational, natural philosophy; or\\nrelegate them to the workshops of honest men.\\nWhen the cells and fiber or connecting ganglia of the\\nmotary system are abnormal, imperfect, or become para-\\nlyzed, volition can no longer evoke it into normal action.\\nBut with a high order of brain power, which a highly\\nand intelligently tensioned formative process evokes, human\\nconsciousness is not only in closer and reciprocal touch with\\nobjective nature and its environment, but it is clear-visioned\\nand able to sift the demonstrative and knowable, from the\\nspeculative and unknowable. Man s consciousness is con-\\nnected to the universe of phenomena, by reciprocal modes\\nof motion, known as molecular in character, invisible in\\ntheir action, spiritual in their inception and impression\\nupon the active, thinking soul, or life ego of the human.\\nNature has only one method of impression and it is molec-\\nular in its character, and is as applicable to mental spheres\\nas to physical. Nature has only one method by which she\\ntransmits her energies, whether they be in what we call the\\nphysical domain or in the conscious realm; and that method\\nis through the electro tension of matter and substance.\\nThe rap of the telegraphic key that unites consciousness\\nto consciousness is a proof of this fact, and the spirit\\nrap uniting consciousness to consciousness is an expres-\\nsion of the same truth, through analagous principles of\\nelectro nature. The transferrence of thought by the com-\\nmercial telephone is evidence of the electro relationship of\\nconscious thought to the molecular structure and tension of\\nthe wire and earth current. The central station for the\\nexpression of this phenomenon, is in the citadel of conscious-", "height": "4803", "width": "3174", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 4 1\\nness, and volition is the active agent. The central receiv-\\ning station is also in the citadel of human consciousness.\\nThe apparatus employed and the wire are only an electrical\\nmechanism, connecting electro centers of the brain through\\nwhich volition operates in promoting speech and vocal\\naction.\\nThought transferrence, sometimes called mental teleg-\\nraphy, is the same phenomenon operating through other forms\\nof electro matter and substance. Psychic research has dem-\\nonstrated this fact in thousands of instances, and wireless\\ntelegraphy additional evidence to the scientific and natural\\nbasis for these mental phenomena. A new discovery in\\nphysical science, lends additional emphasis to this great\\ntruth of thought transferrence. It is known as the The\\nSpectra Telephone, by which individuals in telephonic\\ncommunication can see each other, in a mirror attached to\\nthe electrical circuit. Only the thickness of a glass seems\\nto separate friends, that in reality are a thousand miles\\napart. All nature is an X-ray in her reciprocal relations.\\nThe pleasant thought and kindly solicitude, the anxieties,\\ncares and pains of friends remote who are mentally polar\\nand reciprocal to us, are impressed upon the receptive\\nhuman brain and consciousness. This natural truth when\\nfully comprehended, will broaden and enoble and elevate\\nthe mortal, who has evolved into intellectual spheres, and\\naway from barn-yard proclivities. As all nature is an\\nX-ray, which truth is based upon the reciprocal polarities\\nof matter and substance, it will be seen that there can be\\nno secrets in nature. The individual whose brain and\\nbeing throbs with desire and intent to commit crime, or who\\nhas committed it, imparts this mental and physical condi-\\ntion to everything in his environment. All nature records\\nthrough molecular reciprocity these facts, and eventually it\\nwill be seen that a very large class of mediumistic mind can\\ncatch these vibrations, as easily as the average human", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "42 SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE.\\ncatches malignant disease. Both states are transferred by\\nprinciples of electro molecular induction.\\nINFINITUDE IS AN X-RAY OF SPIRITUAL CO-RELATIONS.\\nAnd upon the sublime data of these truths we affirm life\\nand individual consciousness beyond the grave. The rela-\\ntion the spiritual ego holds to the earth plane, is based\\nupon nature s eternal principle of molecular reciprocity.\\nThis is the relation held as we have seen, between sub-\\nstance and matter, and form in process of evolution in all\\nthe realms of the known universe. And this same truth\\nextends to spheres immortal and co-relates individual con-\\nsciousness to consciousness on the mortal plane. The\\nanalysis of every truth in physical science attests this fact,\\nand in the demonstrations of nature s phenomena, none are\\nmore thoroughly proved than this. The same principles of\\ndeductive reasoning and inductive demonstration, that\\nestablishes any fact in science and philosophy, will prove\\nthis truth as included in nature s equations and in her\\nmathematics of reciprocal energies. And the reason why\\nit has not been discovered before, is because ecclesiasticism\\nand oriental dogmas, called religion, have sought to estab-\\nlish life beyond the grave in supernature, thereby inviting\\nits devotees to believe a lie and a cosmic impossibility, as\\na basis of morality here, and a ransomed life hereafter.\\nThese two systems of thought are as antipodel as the known,\\nand the demonstrable are to the unknown and impossible.\\nThe philosophy of The Spiritualism of Nature has no rela-\\ntion to these vagaries of the Orient. The principles of\\naffinity, of co-relation and spiritual reciprocity, uniting all\\ncosmic realms was a fact before the gods of mythology and\\nimmaculately conceived Saviours were known to human\\nconsciousness. The mathematics of nature and her inex-\\norable principles made The Spiritualism of Nature a\\ntruth, and life beyond the physical form a fact, and co-re-", "height": "4803", "width": "3174", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "SPIRITUALISM OF NATURE. 43\\nlated it to the earth plane, before Bibles, Sacred Cosmog-\\nonies and religious formula had been invented to enslave\\nthe human intellect. These two systems are as diverse as\\nthe poles of our solar system. They cannot be interblended,\\nand all effort in that direction during the last half century\\nhas proved abortive. You cannot weave into a principle\\nof nature a fetich of supernature. The religion of Chris-\\ntianity and the pagan ideals from which it was taken, have\\nbeen a blight in every age and filled the world with discord,\\nmisery, and agony. Its postulates are at variance with\\nknown data, and elude analysis. The Spiritualism of\\nNature when understood liberates the intellect, extends\\nthe boundaries of human knowledge, unites in more frater-\\nnal union the efforts of mankind, broadens the channels of\\ncharity, binds us to those we love here in stronger bonds of\\nhuman sympathy, lifts the veil of superstition disclosing a\\nspiritual infinitude, where continued individual existence\\nand progression, is nature s free gift to the sons and daugh-\\nters of mankind.", "height": "4697", "width": "3189", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "i.ki!.5,S\u00c2\u00a3. RY of congress\\n022 007 267 8", "height": "4803", "width": "3174", "jp2-path": "spiritualismofna00lock_0046.jp2"}}