{"1": {"fulltext": "BF 639\\n.W6", "height": "3599", "width": "2318", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "yP O\\n__ v 6 S 4.\\n^\\\\w^- r\\nP :mhr- *w\\n4 o\\no -ft? ve\u00c2\u00bb\\n4^ o ~S)\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6o** 9\\nv\\nfc AT\\n4 o\\no\\n-e.\\nV\\nv\\nr $p ^X.\\n4 0L V r^. -V\\n6 J\\nV\\n4 J\\n4 \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Q\u00c2\u00bb V ^/u^r\\n0 V +7*??\\n,CT c^v* a*\\nCo. 0 \u00e2\u0080\u00a2jK S 5aV vA d\\nV 0 o ^mV. .v\\njP\\nby\\nJT s LVI\\nA* V\\nV A C*\\nv\\n0 A Vy o\\n4^ 0\\n.V v\\n1 A v p\\nv r a 9 *\u00c2\u00bbV\\n:MIa \u00c2\u00b0o vi aK\\nV V* A\\nJ?\\nr v/\\n4 .V\\nS^jr??^ ^L\\n\u00c2\u00ab6\\nvv\\n0 0^ *0\\no\\n4 4 o\\no si\\n1 4.* *o\\nTfe*U\\\\\\\\Y Xr k~\\n\u00c2\u00b0v i.r o_\\n0\\n4 r\\n.4* .Wfcir.\\n_ f r\\\\\\n4 _ t", "height": "3450", "width": "2286", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2V f\\n-V\\nr\\nCp A\\nP\\nt w\\n\u00c2\u00abv A\\nO c 0 2 1 0\\n0 sS5tlrV A\\n^\\\\\\\\\\\\U -Jy\\n3 V\\n\\\\0 r/*, tthwjov w\\nf\\\\0\\ni 1 aP 5*, o o\\na? \\\\lAL V\\nS\\\\ I\\n.0* V A. ,0* V\\nv *a^:\u00c2\u00ab V*\\n-\u00e2\u0080\u00a2AL v s\\nVv\\nA\\nAk\\n4 V\\nx^ v\\nC\\n\u00c2\u00b0In V\\nA** c\\nV\\nV A\\np\\no 0 V V\\nP o o V\\n9 V v\\nVv 4\\ncv\\no aO\\n\u00c2\u00a3p A\\nA vP 1 c \\\\VA\u00c2\u00bb 0\\na\u00e2\u0080\u0099 \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.ssjRy.*\\nA\u00c2\u00b0\\n0\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u0099o v*\\n|P Xj.\\n.S. O. v/ .^fpyrm/r^ t\\n4.K O ^0 -V\\ny i]V% v c \u00c2\u00bb\u00e2\u0080\u0099VI v\\n1 Mv %A Mi jfe\\n.^-V -J\\n?o a\\nO 1 a 0 e\\nv N c\\\\ py **vj* v z* a\\ni-\\n3 A\\n*0 jP\\nu A\\nA v 1\\n=Cp_ A\\n\u00c2\u00abT V\\n*4\\nA TTr*\\nc\u00c2\u00b0 .^I-. \u00c2\u00b0o\\nA\\nV\\nP\\nrTn-\u00e2\u0080\u0099^o 0 \\\\y* 7 ?T A", "height": "3450", "width": "2286", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3408", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "Qubes apd Spheres\\nip\\njdumai? Cife.\\nBY\\nF. A. WlGGIft.\\n1 Every human soul is a sculptor\\nBOSTON:\\nBANNER OF LIGHT PUB. CO.\\n9 Bosworth Street.\\n1899.", "height": "3408", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "649\\nBy\\nAll\\nCUBES AND SPHERES\\nIN HUMAN LIFE.\\no\\n8\\nCopyright\\nF. A. Wiggin.\\n1899.\\nrights reserved.\\nPRESSWORK BY\\nAmerican Printing and Engraving Co.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Qubes ai}d Spheres.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Ubwwy QIj CiSfa.nirt\\nTm Copied h^,. -o\\nX-V\\ny9frir,/f?9\\n2-foS~D2-\\nSECaNE? (3\\ndelivered kt\\nQRD\u00c2\u00a3ft DIVISION i\\nTwoeopips ^ecciveo.\\nCopyright\\nBy F. A. Wiggin.\\n1899.\\nAll rights reserved.\\nCUBES AND SPHERES\\nIN HUMAN LIFE.\\nPRESSWORK BY\\nAmerican Printing and Engraving Co.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0011.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0012.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "TO\\nHip ffiax: nts r\\nTHIS BOOK\\nIS\\nAFFECTIONATELY\\nNSCRI BED.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0013.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0014.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER\\nPAGE\\nI.\\nCubes and Spheres\\nI\\nII.\\nAttunement\\nI I\\nIII.\\nDesire and Work\\n20\\nIV.\\nWisdom and Purpose\\n28*\\nV.\\nThought\\n37\\nVI.\\nSelf-Assertion\\n45\\nVII.\\nPerception and Reflection\\n54\\nVIII.\\nService.\\n6 3\\nIX.\\nInherent Power\\n72\\nX.\\nLife\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Expression\\n82\\nXI.\\nReceptivity\\n93\\nXII.\\nIndividual Effort\\n102\\nXIII.\\nEvolution and Involution\\n106\\nXIV.\\nProgression\\n113", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "t\\nCHAPTER I.\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nT N the beginning was the Law, and the Law was\\n1 with God, and the Law was God.\\nInherent in every law is a principle which must\\ngain manifestation through the process of evolution.\\nEach advancing stage of planetary unfoldment from\\nthe nebulous fire-mist, from the darkness brooding\\nupon the face of the waters, until the fiat, Let\\nthere be light,\u00e2\u0080\u009d clothed this whirling globe with life\\nand beauty, as a fitting abode for that topmost flower\\non evolution\u00e2\u0080\u0099s tree Man all this marvellous cres\u00c2\u00ac\\ncendo in Nature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s mighty anthem only bespeaks the\\ninfinite necessity of the Eternal Mind to express its\\ncreative thought. All Nature is but the emanation,\\nthe throbbing energy of that Primeval Flame which\\ngives force and potency to every law. All life is the\\nmighty pulsation of the Great Breath, and progress is\\nits watchword\u00e2\u0080\u0094the grandest of all laws.\\nBut \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe mills of the gods grind slow, though they", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "2\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\ngrind exceeding fine.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Eons of years are required\\nto perfect a planet\u00e2\u0080\u0099s birth, and yet impulsive, impa\u00c2\u00ac\\ntient man essays to mount his ladder of growth at a\\nsingle bound.\\nThe grace and beauty of an Apollo lurks long in the\\nrough-hewn boulder from the quarry before its majes\u00c2\u00ac\\ntic outlines are gradually uncovered and revealed\\nunder the skilful hand of the artist. The diamond\\nfrom the mine, jagged, misshapen, almost opaque,\\nsuggests nothing of the brilliance and fire to be re\u00c2\u00ac\\nleased under the polishing wheel.\\nSimilarly, human beings are like unto cubes until\\nthe attrition of Life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s experiences by which Law is\\ncomprehended, rounds off the angular corners, until\\nthe sharp edges are wrought upon by the design of\\nthe Infinite Artist, when the cube becomes a sphere\\nthe fittest emblem of Deity whose image and like\u00c2\u00ac\\nness man is intended to reflect.\\nThe grinding, crushing process of Nature comes to\\nappear as a fact sometime, in the life of almost\\nevery one. Only a spiritual discrimination, enriched\\nwith that wisdom which experience alone can give,", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CUBES AND SPHERES.\\n3\\nwill be able to perceive that each expression of life\\nis both the grist and the gristmill, the masticator and\\nthe masticated.\\nDeity, as expressed in Nature and in man, may be\\ncalled a mammoth machine, composed of an infinite\\nnumber of parts, all working in a beautiful, har\u00c2\u00ac\\nmonious observance of perfect order, whenever indi\u00c2\u00ac\\nviduals representing parts of the great machine are\\nproperly geared or adjusted, and consequently are in\\nright relation to the whole. But whether adjusted\\nor maladjusted, in accord or discord, humanity be\u00c2\u00ac\\nlongs to the machinery of Nature. The first state,\\nthe primal type, whether in the domain of mind or\\nmatter, is at best prismatical and usually rough,\\njagged, and most distinguished for severity of out\u00c2\u00ac\\nline. The never-ceasing grind of evolution\u00e2\u0080\u0099s wheels\\nrubs off the sharp and angular lines common to all\\nprimal states, and this crucial process is not always\\ncomprehended as a kind stroke of Nature, until, as a\\nresult of it, the soul becomes conscious of its purpose\\nin a symmetrical or spherical self-hood, adapted to a\\nfrictionless cosmos.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "4\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nAdvisedly, have we considered man as a wheel, or\\ncog, in this stupendous machine of Nature. He is\\nnot dispossessed thereby of innate and natural genera\u00c2\u00ac\\ntive energy to help propel the machinery of which he\\nis a part. He is the grist and the grinder, the\\ninvolved and the evolved. In a comprehensive con\u00c2\u00ac\\nception, man is not a machine at all, but a specific\\nconception will certainly determine him one.\\nIt slayeth and it saveth, nowise moved\\nExcept into the working out of doom\\nIts threads are Love and Life; and Death and Pain\\nThe shuttles of its loom.\\nSuch is the Law which moves to righteousness,\\nWhich none at last can turn aside, or stay;\\nThe heart of it is Love, the end of it\\nIs peace and consummation sweet. Obey\\nThe cold marble statue is not the artist, and yet it\\nspeaks, in degree, the artistic ability of the sculptor.\\nThe sculptor can be said to live in the statue, it is a\\npart of his life. The vibrating artistic energy of the\\npainter throbs in every rolling wave of his pictured\\nocean, and is the motive power propelling his\\nmirrored boat as she dashes onward, cutting and", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "CUBES AND SPHERES.\\n5\\nspurning his realistic sea. The baseball player\\nhurls from his hand the sphere, and it cuts through\\nthe atmosphere with the velocity of the wind. You\\ndo not see the player follow the ball, and yet it goes\\nno further than he goes.\\nThe machine of Nature is not man, yet it is a\\ntheatre for his life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s expression. Man is the ma\u00c2\u00ac\\nchine, and he is also the intelligent motive power\\nwhich inspires it with activity. To portray man as a\\npiece of blind, unintelligent mechanism is to do him a\\ngreat injustice, and to ignore his real entity. For man\\nis a more important actor in the running of this uni\u00c2\u00ac\\nverse than has ever been recognized. He is the\\nengine and the engineer. He is the forester, with\\naxe in hand, who will make a smoother, riper world\\nfor the occupancy of generations yet unborn. His\\nimportance as a machine must not be subordinated to\\nhis still greater and more sublime importance as a\\nmechanic. The soul, inheriting creative impulse and\\npower, is co-worker with the Over-Soul in its evolu\u00c2\u00ac\\ntionary purposes; the planet ripens as mankind\\nadvances.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "CUBES AND SPHERES\\nBut,\u00e2\u0080\u009d says the Spirit of All Time to the Spirit\\nof To-day,\\nTell us, how about your men\\nShall they like live automatons, still drudge their\\nlives away?\\nWhen the rivers, tides and lightnings join to\\nhelp them on their way\\nSays the Spirit of All Time to the Spirit of\\nTo-day,\\nTell us, how about your men?\\nYes, harness every river above the cataract\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nbrink,\\nAnd then unharness man.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cTo earth\u00e2\u0080\u0099s reservoir of fire let your giant shaft\u00c2\u00ac\\nings sink,\\nAnd scourge your dredging thunderbolts but\\ngive man time to think\\nThrow your bridles on the rivers, curb them at\\nthe cataract\u00e2\u0080\u0099s brink,\\nAnd then unharness man.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nSays the Spirit of All Time, In this climax of\\nthe years,\\nMake no machine of man.\\nYour harnessed rivers, panting, are as lyrics in\\nmy ears,\\nAnd your jockeyed lightnings clattering are as\\nmusic of the spheres,\\nBut\u00e2\u0080\u0099t is well that you remember in this climax of\\nthe years,\\nMake no machine of man.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CUBES AND SPHERES.\\n7\\nThe discovery of the universality, the immuta\u00c2\u00ac\\nbility and infallible accuracy of natural law and espe\u00c2\u00ac\\ncially its eternal progression, the science of chemistry,\\nof geology and astronomy, voicing as they do the\\nglorious evangel of Evolution, are all grand revela\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions to man, bringing him a knowledge of his true\\nand real relation to the universe. Emerson says,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cIn nature all is useful, all is beautiful. It is\\ntherefore beautiful because it is alive, moving, repro\u00c2\u00ac\\nductive. It is therefore useful because it is sym\u00c2\u00ac\\nmetrical and fair.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Mankind, in harmony with\\nNature, has a destiny to evolve. No good can\\naccrue to any one by pointing, with pride, to a blue-\\nblooded ancestral pedigree, as if this were all suffi\u00c2\u00ac\\ncient to meet any demand upon his future. Neither\\ncan personal responsibility be evaded upon the plea\\nof unfavorable environments. The idler is met by\\nthe inexorable law of Nature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s demand for personal\\nactivity. If, in reply to this demand, the careless\\nspendthrift of opportunities exclaims, I am not\\nyet ready to move on,\u00e2\u0080\u009d then the grinding wheels of\\nNature begin their work of atrophy. If the indi-", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "8\\nCUBES AND SPHERES\\nvidual will not work and be worked upon, Nature,\\ndemanding activity, will through the process of\\nrust, atrophy and decay, gradually dispose of the\\nrough, angular lines of being until he also becomes a\\nspherical co-worker in Nature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s purposes.\\nAnd yet Nature never deals an unkindly blow.\\nHer operations are but processes of life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s expression,\\nby which are evolved integrity, virtue and perfection.\\nFor this, the bodies of priceless souls, those dear to\\nhumanity\u00e2\u0080\u0099s weal, have been burned at the stake, but\\nfrom their ashes other witnesses have arisen. No\\ncruel rack can subdue, no fire can burn, no abyss of\\nignorant persecution can swallow up the truth, or\\ndestroy its messengers. Truth is vital, eternal\\nNature and Truth are one.\\nThe great Beethoven became deaf, and upon an old\\ndiscordant harpsichord would breathe forth tones\\nwhich he supposed were matchless harmonies. When\\nNature undertakes to evolve the melodies of divine\\nlove from so many chords which are unresponsive,\\nfrom others which imperfectly vibrate, we may well\\nquestion the possible outcome of her efforts. Let", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "CUBES AND SPHERES.\\n9\\nno one forget that in perfect love is all harmony, and\\nunder the manipulation of this divine law all strings\\nupon the dilapidated instruments of human beings\\nwill somewhere, sometime be brought into divine\\nand perfect accord of vibration. God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s thoughts are\\nnot our thoughts. His ways are not our ways. His\\nmethods are attuned to the melody and rhythm of\\ndivine love, which our efforts so feebly copy.\\nThe untutored savage made his hatchet, or toma\u00c2\u00ac\\nhawk, from the stone which was found most nearly\\nresembling the desired shape, or he selected his\\nmodel from the thin, wedge-shaped lump of iron, and\\nground it to a sharp edge. The tutored mind, the\\nscientific man, with no thought of shape in his selec\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, collects pieces of iron and casts the fragments\\ninto a heated furnace; when it becomes a liquid\\nstream of fire, he pours it into a mould to be cooled.\\nThe savage, observing it, laughs in derision, and\\nexclaims \u00e2\u0080\u009cA pretty tomahawk\u00e2\u0080\u009d Heated again, it\\nis drawn into the lengthened bar, under the heavy\\nblows of the trip-hammer. Then for many days\\npacked in ashes, salt and charcoal, it must endure the", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "IO\\nCUBES AND SPHERES\\nheat of the furnace, when it becomes steel. Later,\\nunder the hand of the blacksmith, subjected to heat\\nand cold, it is shaped, polished and completed.\\nPlace the rude tomahawk of the savage by the side\\nof this finished implement of warfare, and who will\\ndeny to the product of science a vast superiority\\nNature takes the native ore of life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s possibilities\\nand smelts and casts and draws and bakes and\\nhammers and fashions and tempers as her wisdom\\ndirects, and who shall question, in view of results, the\\nbeauty of her finished work The beauty inherent\\nin the archetypal pattern must eventually gain a per\u00c2\u00ac\\nfect expression.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "A TTUNEMENT.\\nI l\\nCHAPTER II.\\nATTUNEMENT.\\nHE laws of Nature are eternal and unchanging,\\nx and the music of her voice proclaims from every\\nnote on the keyboard of her vibrating heart, the love\\nof God. Are our ears attuned to her music, or is\\nthis melody so grand and deep but a jargon of\\nperplexities and jarring confusions? No note of\\nharmony ever awakens the appreciation of mankind\\nwithout registering itself somewhere in his nature,\\nin imperishable characters. But his attention must\\nbe arrested, his ear attuned less to mundane discords\\nand accidentals, and vibrate more keenly to the music\\nof the spheres.\\nHow lavish of harmony is Nature in her every\\nexpression. God sits at His grand organ, whose\\nbellows are filled and operant with the inspiration of\\nHis love. He presses the deep bass notes of His\\nvast keyboard, anon the thunders peal and crash,", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "12\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nbearing a message of purification to the world. The\\ntinkling raindrops descend as His fingers weave the\\nplaintive-toned melody of a minor key, and as He\\nstrikes the shrill treble of the upper keys, the cur\u00c2\u00ac\\ntain of Night is furled, the baton of Dawn is raised\\nto summon a vast feathered orchestra to activity.\\nWhat unspeakable pleasure for the harmony-loving\\nsoul to break from sleep\u00e2\u0080\u0099s enfolding embrace long\\nbefore she willingly relinquishes her hold, to thus\\ncatch the first faint note, divinely sweet, bubbling\\nforth from the throat of some little bird-friend, fol\u00c2\u00ac\\nlowed by another and another, until the music, which\\nthe wealth of cities can never buy, swells into lofti\u00c2\u00ac\\nest peans, carols of richest cadence, blending in\\nsweetest rhythmic chorus into a grand forest sym\u00c2\u00ac\\nphony. At such an hour, how the soul of man and\\nall that is within him, with every breath, renders\\npraise and thanksgiving for the privilege of living.\\nColor also has its harmonies as well as those vibra\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions of the same ether which produce sound. The\\nbird orchestra introduces the chief actor in Nature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\ndrama, the great Magician, the grand old Monarch", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "A TTUNEMENT.\\n13\\nof the day. The mountains and hilltops catch first\\nthe golden rays of His universal beneficence. The\\nvalleys of the green-carpeted earth surrounding the\\nlakes which mirror this sunrise glory, wait longer\\nto receive the touch of His bright diamond-tipped\\narrows, but they are not forgotten, and are soon like\u00c2\u00ac\\nwise bathed in splendor.\\nWhen did ever the faintest hint of a pleasant truth\\nreach a soul to disappoint it, even though its coming\\nseemed long delayed? To all that are living in the\\nvalley of discord, not attuned with Nature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s harmony,\\nto whom her ways seem hard and unjust, and who,\\nfrom the heart of their anguish deny to God the\\nattributes of love, mercy and judgment, seeing only\\nthe visitations of affliction and chastisement, the\\ndarkness in which they are enveloped, let them lift\\nup their eyes to the hills from whence cometh\\nstrength, and where light already abides. Look, dear\\nsouls, to the heights of your own beings, and the\\nDivine Light, of which the glorious God of day is a\\nfeeble symbol, will enkindle anew in your hearts the\\nfire of hope. The growth which any other soul has", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "14\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\ngained, you, in the ripeness of time shall likewise\\nobtain, for ye are gods in embryo. Rich experience\\nstands ready to attest to this fact, that it is far more\\nprofitable, as well as congenial, to work in accord\\nwith the laws of Nature than to be worked upon by\\nthose laws. The first, in the order of universal\\nexperience, is to be worked upon, for it is the design\\nof Nature that mankind shall progress. Rapid and\\nhealthy progression also demands certain training in\\npreparatory schools of existence. Nature leads,\\ndrives, and propels, until all life is brought into com\u00c2\u00ac\\npanionship with one of the most divine friends to be\\nfound upon the highway of life\u00e2\u0080\u0094Aspiration. We\\njourney along in the slow-moving, jostling, jarring\\ncart of circumstances, until the station of Aspiration\\nis reached, when we board her train, and, Love supply\u00c2\u00ac\\ning the motive power, we glide along over a straight,\\nascending road to the terminus of Realization.\\nLet none be discouraged who are being worked\\nupon, and cast down, overthrown and well-nigh torn\\nasunder, dragged or driven, \u00e2\u0080\u009cFor I reckon that the\\nsufferings of the present time are not worthy to be", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "A TTUNEMENT.\\n*5\\ncompared with the glory which shall be revealed to\\nus.\u00e2\u0080\u009d It is God that worketh in you both to will and\\nto do of His own good pleasure.\u00e2\u0080\u009d It is His pleasure\\n(as it will be your future glory) to remove all angu\u00c2\u00ac\\nlarities from your life, and to shape and fashion you\\ninto symmetrical and spherical perfectness, to make\\nyou perfect \u00e2\u0080\u009ceven as your Father in heaven is per\u00c2\u00ac\\nfect.\u00e2\u0080\u009d For neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor\\nprincipalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor\\nthings to come, height nor depth, nothing can ever\\nseparate you from the love of God and eventual\\nreflection of His likeness. Men can bask in the\\nbeneficent rays of God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s love and for a time seem to\\nbe unchanged thereby, but this love is destined some\u00c2\u00ac\\nwhere, sometime, to warm this lump of apparently\\ndead clay into life.\\nHenry Ward Beecher once said: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe fact that\\nGod\u00e2\u0080\u0099s love is boundless and infinite is no evidence\\nthat it shall carry benefit to all.\u00e2\u0080\u009d On the contrary,\\nit is all sufficient, and eventually brings to all\\nhumanity an absolute knowledge of its universal\\npower. Nature never hurries. Mankind must emerge", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "16 CUBES AND SPHERES.\\nfrom that too common belief that the brief span of\\none earthly experience is sufficient to work out the\\ndestiny of Eternity. Beecher also said that, \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098The\\nfact that God loves, and is so good, should lay no\\nfoundation for the plea that men may go on and do\\nas they please.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Here the great preacher has most\\ntruly spoken, for if such pleas gain acceptance, sooner\\nor later men will discover it to be a foundation built\\nupon the sand, as the upheaval of evolution\u00e2\u0080\u0099s advanc\u00c2\u00ac\\ning waves will destroy it. God, as expressed in\\nNature, demands and compels progress of every\\nsoul. The soul of mankind, by that law, will be\\ncompelled to march on until aspiration, true and\\npure, crowns its advance, when its highest pleasure\\nwill be to do only those things which are just and\\nright.\\nThe new-born child would, of itself, be unable to\\nsustain itself in the body for a single day. It came\\nhere, however perfect in other respects, altogether\\nincapable and powerless of sustaining its own exist\u00c2\u00ac\\nence. The tender, watchful care of the mother fully\\nsupplies this deficiency, and day by day she feels,", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "A TTUNEMENT.\\n17\\nwhile enfolding the child in her arms, her own\\nstrength, reincarnated in that of her child. This\\ncare is never for a day suspended until in the child\\nthe power of self-support is realized, and then that\\nlove, which has prompted all her attention for the\\nchild, goes ever on through all time and eternity.\\nThat mother-love was supplied from the inex\u00c2\u00ac\\nhaustible fountain of Infinite Love, that love which\\nis everlasting it endureth forever. God has placed\\nthe germ of Himself in everything that lives, and\\neverything has life because God is life, and God\\ndwells innately in His every expression.\\nWhy is man so often, apparently at least, cruelly\\ntreated during a mundane experience Because he\\nhas, too often, elected to environ himself with naught\\nbut the purely material things of life. When\\nexclusively associated with material interests he\\nbecomes weighted and clogged with its gravity,\\nwhich is a hindrance to spiritual progress. Gross\\ninstincts wed us to the earth. Break that bond of\\ndesire, divorce yourself from materiality, using it\\nonly as a stepping-stone to spiritual benefits. Forget", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "i8\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nthe ties that bind you to earth, free yourself from\\nthe impulses that drag you downward, feel the truth\\nthat you live in eternity to-day as much as the kindred\\nsouls who have passed beyond the vail, commune\\nwith invisible potencies.. Give your thoughts eleva\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion and sublimity, and you will be led away from a\\nthousand perplexities of materiality into a better and\\nhappier life.\\nGod\u00e2\u0080\u0099s table is ever spread with a most bountiful\\nprovision of the delicacies of all seasons. Why sit\\nand sip the cup of sorrow Through many a sad,\\nyet profitable experience, humanity will learn the\\nlessons contained in the divine book of Nature. In\\nearlier days, human strength was the motive power\\nfor accomplishing the purposes of life. This very\\nstrength, when exerted on the mental plane, con\u00c2\u00ac\\ntrolled the wild animal as a servant, which measu\u00c2\u00ac\\nrably lightened the burden of human toil, while in\\nlater days, science furnishing such agencies as steam,\\nair and electricity, has made the toil of man almost a\\npastime. Upon a higher plane of living the burden\\nof human toil must be lightened, the understanding", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "A TTUNEMENT.\\n19\\nof how to co-operate with Nature needs illumination\\nand revealment, the mentality of mankind must be\\nquickened to more perfectly dominate the material,\\nthe spirit which man is, gain a fuller expression.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "20\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nCHAPTER III.\\nDESIRE AND WORK.\\nHE birthright of desire is of priceless value.\\n1 Inclination, long entertained, converts itself\\ninto a faculty. The.establishment of a faculty demon\u00c2\u00ac\\nstrates the verity of the fact to which it is related.\\nAll types of ignorance are conditions from which\\nthe aspiring soul wishes to be emancipated. Semi\u00c2\u00ac\\nignorance still obtains and claims its subjects\\neverywhere. Unpleasant as this truth may be, a\\nconsciousness of the fact ever brings with it, as\\nmost delightful company, the bright Angel of Hope.\\nThe value of desire will be measurably propor\u00c2\u00ac\\ntionate to the degree of realization of human imper\u00c2\u00ac\\nfection and to the persistence of aim in attaining to\\nthe true and faultless. The truth shall make you\\nfree.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Desire in its highest expression is one with\\ntrue prayer. It is prayer when strong and fervent.\\nWith every aspiration, the soul is on its knees.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "DESIRE AND WORK\\\\\\n21\\nA selfish wish is only a base counterfeit of real\\ndesire and earnest purpose.\\nWe can conceive of no true prayer unless it is\\nborn of a sincere purpose. A man gives his heart\\nto God whenever he desires to be like Him. The\\nprecious privilege of prayer should be ignored by\\nnone, and its importance cannot be too strongly\\nemphasized. Yet none should be encouraged to\\npray for the impossible, since God Himself cannot\\nbreak His own laws. A child would be a long\\ntime learning to walk if kept constantly in its\\ncradle and talked to about equilibrium and the\\ncentre of gravity. If a person had never seen or\\ntasted an orange, he might be told of its globular\\nshape, its deep yellow tint, and that it belonged to\\nthe genus ckrus, that the tree upon which it grew\\nwas permanently clothed with a glossy green foliage,\\nbut the information would convey a far less per\u00c2\u00ac\\nfect idea than could be gained in a moment had\\nhe been taken to an orange grove and personally\\nseen and tasted the fruit. Similarly, only the prac\u00c2\u00ac\\ntise of prayer can bring appreciation of its value and", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "22\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nefficacy. To the soul which feels no relation of kin\u00c2\u00ac\\nship to its Father, prayer must remain an idle specu\u00c2\u00ac\\nlation, a mental phenomenon.\\nDesire, unaccompanied with effort or work, is a\\nfoolish waste of mental energy. With earnest\\ndesire comes the exhilarating aspiration to work,\\nand as a result of work-prayer many a barren waste\\nhas been converted into a garden, the earth has\\nbeen subjugated and transformed, and therefore\\nbecomes a better abode for man. Such efficient\\ndesires are doing more to have \u00e2\u0080\u009cThy kingdom come\\nand Thy will be done than all the verbal prayers\\nwhich can ever be offered. \u00e2\u0080\u009cI have planted, Apollos\\nwatered; but God gave the increase,\u00e2\u0080\u009d says Paul.\\nThe importance of watering and planting is not to\\nbe subordinated to God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s constant willingness to\\ngive the increase. Humanity must never neglect\\nits important part of the programme as co-worker\\nwith God. Marvellous will be the result of desire\\nfor things which are right and true when supple\u00c2\u00ac\\nmented with earnest, unselfish effort.\\nFor example, if some member of the family is ill,", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "DESIRE AND WORK.\\n23\\nor suffering with some acute physical malady, aid is\\nquickly sought. The best remedial agencies are\\napplied, and if efficacious, health is soon restored.\\nDisease is undesirable, and therefore every precau\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion against its recurrence will be taken. Perhaps\\non the physical plane, there are adjacent low lands\\ngenerating a foul atmosphere, which need draining.\\nIf so, it is folly to join issue with any ultra science\\nhowever popular and prevalent its teachings, and\\ndeclare that no swamp exists. Impurities may have\\nfound a channel of access to the well. If sensible,\\nwork is at once begun. This work-prayer will be\\nfollowed with beneficent results. Health thus\\ngained is retained, as well as maintained for the rest\\nof the family. If there were no hygienic laws, right\\nthought would speedily create them, and enforce a\\npure environment. It is said that a noted divine,\\nupon hearing doleful comments on the mysterious\\ndispensation of Providence in removing a beautiful\\nlittle child from rosy, healthful life, by a sudden attack\\nof diphtheria, exclaimed gruffly: \u00e2\u0080\u009cDispensation of\\nProvidence indeed More likely, rotten potatoes in\\nthe cellar", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "24\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nHow frequently man yields to fits of impatience,\\nwhich plunge the thought-life into unnumbered per\u00c2\u00ac\\nplexities, depressing sorrow, and unavailing self-\\nreproach As a legitimate consequence, a desire for\\nan emancipation from this bondage is born in every\\naspiring soul. How can strength to overcome this\\nweakness be obtained It is useless to attempt\\ngaining the requisite power except by spiritual exer\u00c2\u00ac\\ncise, work and practice. If prayer for release is\\nintelligently offered to the Supreme Ruler of the\\nUniverse, the answer should be expected in the\\npresentation of just those conditions which most\\nthoroughly try the faculties of patience. Victory\\ncan come only through the soul\u00e2\u0080\u0099s recognition of the\\nbeauty and supremacy of patience over its weaker,\\ntantalizing enemy, impatience. Never strive to\\nequalize impulsiveness and passivity. Attempt it,\\nand the regal importance of the mind will be dis\u00c2\u00ac\\ncrowned and find a place in the dust, under the feet\\nof all other powers. Passions must be subjugated to\\nthe control of the divinely-illuminated will.\\nHobart Berrian, who said \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe great mission of", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "DESIRE AND WORK\\n25\\nlife is to prepare for death,\u00e2\u0080\u009d would have rendered\\nbetter service to his fellows had he forcibly reminded\\nthem that the great mission of life is to live. Work-\\nprayer, wisely directed, in the final analysis will\\nalways prove to be constructive, while idleness not\\nonly never builds, but disintegrates. Many, too\\nmany adherents of creeds are wasting their precious\\nopportunities in singing\\nOh for the pearly gates of heaven,\\nOh for the golden floor,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nwho would be serving their generation much better,\\nwould be adding more happiness to this sphere of\\ntime, as well as paving the streets of eternity with\\nglad fruition, if they would work to establish more\\npearly gates through which love could find ingress to\\nthe hearts of men, and make straight and smooth the\\nfloors of life now pressed by the feet of the weary\\nand heavy-laden ones of earth.\\nThe way to bliss lies not on beds of down,\\nAnd he that has no cross, deserves no crown.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nMany there are who are filled with desire and yet\\nnever accomplish anything. Yet until some work is", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "26\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nbegun in earnest, an unconscious longing and unrest\\npossesses the soul. From such aimless lives is often\\nderived a sinecure for the physician, where no other\\nillness can be found, save that which breathes in the\\nstagnant pools of idleness. If the importance of his\\ntrust were considered, the physician\u00e2\u0080\u0099s only prescrip\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion for such cases would be\\nRx.\\nHonest industry Eight hours.\\nHealthful recreation\\nSleep.\\nSig.\\nTo be taken daily.\\nThis prescription should be written in plain English,\\nand accompanied by the wholesome advice to always\\nkeep the prescription filled. Follow these directions,\\nand the road of life will lead to constant happiness.\\nFollow selfish idleness and, like the vanquished\\nCorsican, the journey of temporal existence will be a\\nmelancholy march to some spiritual St. Helena.\\nA contemplation of the ruins of the Acropolis and\\nthe Parthenon finds some consolation in the knowl\u00c2\u00ac\\nedge that the missiles of valiant warfare helped their", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "DESIRE AND WORK.\\n27\\ndestruction, and that all which remains of these once\\nmagnificent structures is not the product of neglect\\nand the crumbling hand of time. At best these ruins\\npresent melancholy aspects. Yet numberless tour\u00c2\u00ac\\nists yearly travel thousands of miles to visit and pon\u00c2\u00ac\\nder over these dismantled temples of former beauty\\nand grandeur. Nearer at hand may perchance be\\nseen more stupendous and pitiable ruins of that\\ntemple which should be kept in hospitable order for\\nthe abiding place of the living God.\\nThe Divine Magnet which would draw all mankind\\nnearer and nearer unto Itself has imparted to every\\nsoul the impulse of a pure and noble desire, as an\\nefficient handmaiden of the law of progression. It is\\nthe key to growth. Desire, enriched with earnest,\\nwisely-directed effort, will assuredly gain abundant\\nentrance to the Kingdom of Heaven.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "28\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nWISDOM AND PURPOSE.\\nLL work becomes wearisome and profitless, save\\n1 v that which is wisely directed. However\\nimportant desire, work and prayer may appear, life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\npurposes must not be subordinate considerations.\\nThe value of results, in association with all efforts,\\nwill largely depend upon the directing wisdom.\\nIntelligent mental energy must inspire all muscular\\neffort. Only a few years ago, fifty men were neces\u00c2\u00ac\\nsary to raise the frame of an ordinary house, a work\\nwhich six men, with modern appliances, can now more\\neasily perform.\\nThere are two classes of people who rarely meet\\nwith any marked degree of success. One class,\\nrepresented by a large number of followers, has no\\nwell-defined purpose in life; the second, while\\nnumerically much smaller, and whose purposes are\\ndefinite enough, although unwisely adjusted to ensure", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "WISDOM AND PURPOSE.\\n2 9\\nthe best and most profitable results, add but little\\nmore than the first class to the common weal of\\nhumanity It is a pleasure and encouragement to\\nrecall a third division of society, in which are found\\npeople of noble aspirations, whose purposes and\\nactions are directed toward the pathway upon which\\nwisdom sheds her beneficent light.\\nIt is not enough to have definite purposes; they\\nmust be wisely directed. Although important, only\\nas steps to much higher considerations, there are\\npurposes that obtain which, to be perfected, require\\na great waste of nervous energy, bringing the devotee\\nat last to realize the vanity of all earthly standards as\\na result of a purposeless kind of living, which ends\\nonly when despair is buried in the grave of\\nforgetfulness.\\nCertain proclivities discovered in mankind are\\nfrequently attributed to the law of ancestral heredity.\\nLet it ever be borne in mind that true inheritance is\\nof divine origin, and a too-sweeping denunciation of\\nany condition which obtains is to cast a reflection\\nupon the wisdom of the Almighty, and reveals human", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "cubes And spheres.\\n30\\nshort-sightedness. The inner consciousness is as\\nmuch the birthright of heredity as certain outward\\nand wrongly called natural propensities. The lazy,\\npurposeless, drifting life is the saddest and hardest\\nto live. The trend of such a life may be an inherited\\ntendency on the mortal plane, but with this trans\u00c2\u00ac\\nmitted proclivity is the inheritance of a divine spirit\\nof purpose, whose lash is daily felt around the lazy,\\nlistless members of inactivity. The importance of\\nyielding to these higher mandates cannot be too\\nstrongly urged. The scourge of activity will ever be\\napplied to the back of inertia until a willing obedi\u00c2\u00ac\\nence is rendered and the healing elixir of Well\\ndone, good and faithful servant,\u00e2\u0080\u009d is nobly won.\\nNature is very economical and will not tolerate\\nthe existence of any waste or useless material.\\nNature abhors an angle, and she will rub and rack,\\npush and polish every member of her family until\\neach is brought into a spherical beauty, whereby a\\nperfect adjustment to the machinery of the universe\\nis possible. The untamed wilderness by which the\\nprimogenital man was surrounded, necessitated his", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "WISDOM AND PURPOSE. 31\\nbestowing undivided attention upon material affairs.\\nThe world is a riper one now, and less attention in\\nthis direction is required. The tendency to dig and\\nto delve, to harvest and to hoard is a recognizable\\ntaint of ancestral characteristics, frequently over\\nindulged. To many, God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s face is reflected only as\\nstamped upon the almighty dollar; with others, He\\nlives solely in the acquisition of purely intellectual\\nknowledge or in the attainment of some selfish ideal;\\nwhile with some, the flitting butterfly of society is\\ndeified. The physical plane is not yet outgrown,\\nthe surface of the earth is still inhabited, super\u00c2\u00ac\\nficialities absorb human attention, while the spirit\\nshrivels and starves for the sustenance it craves.\\nIs this a wise direction of life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s purpose\\nNot a small proportion of humanity finds a defi\u00c2\u00ac\\nniteness of purpose in gratifying an ambition for\\nwealth or position of power, for a leadership in\\nsociety, and in many other trivial directions, all\\nthese desires being far beneath the dignity of an\\nemancipated soul. The demands of modern society,\\nof the exclusive \u00e2\u0080\u009c400,\u00e2\u0080\u009d appear to the novice little", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "CUBES AND SPHERES.\\n32\\nless than cruel. False custom is a monstrous and\\npitiless dictator of all who live under its dominion.\\nYet fidelityto the demands of this custom claims the\\ndevotion of many of God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s children as the highest\\npurpose of life. Follow the lady of fashion for a\\nsingle day, as various efforts are operative for eras\u00c2\u00ac\\ning the pencilings of time. How pitiful the record\\nof the hours devoted to the toilet, how abject a slave\\nto the demands of the flesh is this victim of society t\\nThe daily massage, the steaming of the face, rubbing\\nin of unguents and the rubbing off of the same,\\neffacing of incipient wrinkles, often by the painful\\nprocess of scraping and cupping, the long, pains\u00c2\u00ac\\ntaking work of the manicure and the pedicure, the\\nartistic labor of the hairdresser, all this wearisome\\nordeal is nothing short of work, and that a definite\\npurpose prompts it, no one will deny; but what of the\\nwisdom of the purpose?\\nThe man of poverty, in his lonely hut, frequently\\nderives consolation from the scriptural \u00e2\u0080\u009cneedle\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\neye\u00e2\u0080\u009d parable, which may prevent the man of the\\ncastle, or lessen his chances of enjoying the occu-", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "WISDOM AND PURPOSE.\\n33\\npancy of a mansion in the great Beyond. The\\ncopartnership of weal and woe is found in every\\nmanifestation of life. Yet the enjoyment of heaven,\\nhere or hereafter, can never be absolutely complete\\nfor one until it has been won for all. So long as\\nthe present definition of prosperity obtains, the\\npurpose of life will measurably fail to employ means\\ndestined to lead to real success. It may be, and\\ndoubtless is true that higher and nobler purposes\\nsway humanity to-day than have existed heretofore.\\nThis fact, however, is not sufficient and should not\\nobliterate the consciousness of duty in elevating\\nhuman aims to a still higher standard. An umbrella\\nmay protect from the rain, but a well-constructed\\nhouse will perform the duties of that office, much\\nbetter. God has set up no special barriers in his\\nkingdom against the rich, neither has he thrown\\nwide open all gates of ingress to the poor.\\nWith an unfaltering eye, let present needs be\\nmet. One earnest gaze in the right direction often\\neffects a change in the whole life. It is most essen\u00c2\u00ac\\ntial that all minds, from each extreme of life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s swing-", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "34\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\ning pendulum, pause to look within and honestly\\nconsider and meditate on the trend of present living.\\nIs it the purpose of the politician, upon his election\\nto an office of trust, to become the true statesman,\\nto keep constantly in view the deepest and best\\ninterests of his constituents, or is it his design to\\ngain the office for self-emolument and power, at the\\nsacrifice of confidence reposed in him by those to\\nwhom he owes his position Is the true minister of\\nthe gospel, he in whom the sacred charge of making\\nthe world better is especially committed, conscien\u00c2\u00ac\\ntiously performing the duties of his office, or is he to\\nbe found giving freedom of rein to ambition\u00e2\u0080\u0099s prompt\u00c2\u00ac\\nings, and for the sake of position catering to the\\ndemands of itching ears Is he a leader of the\\npeople, or is he led by them\\nIs the physician true to the highest duties of his\\noffice Is it his constant care to so teach others\\nthe laws of health and of right thought that no\\nrecognition of disease would be necessary, or does\\nhis cruel, illegitimate and barbaric practice of vivi\u00c2\u00ac\\nsection encourage in him a desire for unnecessary", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "WISDOM AND PURPOSE.\\n35\\nsurgical operations, or for professional experiments,\\nuntil the patient is left a mere wreck of a human\\nbeing, the remnant of a body almost too slight for\\npurposes of identification? Is he endeavoring to\\nthrow open to the world every avenue of health Is\\nhe sinking self-considerations in humane effort to\\nelevate his own calling by destroying all possibility\\nof disease, or is he straining every nerve to foister\\nupon the people such unjust laws as will make of his\\nprofession a sinecure, and an eternal birthright, by\\nvirtue of which all spiritual illumination in this con\u00c2\u00ac\\nnection, all divinely prepared and appointed healing\\nshall be relegated to oblivion\\nAre religionists really doing to others as they\\nwould that others should do unto them, or are the\\nhabiliments of religion being used for well defined\\nand yet unjust purposes? Is the monopolist an\\nunselfish man Is it his purpose to control commer\u00c2\u00ac\\ncial enterprises for the benefit of the masses? Is it\\nthe object of fashionable society to perfect a broader\\nculture, or is its highest purpose to intrench itself\\nwithin the parapets of seclusiveness Is the sanctity", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "36 CUBES AND SPHERES.\\nof the marriage institution the purpose of marriage,\\nor is it too often a mere commercial enterprise\\nAre the unfortunate, the poor and needy, receiving\\ndue and just consideration from wealth Is the\\nlaborer toiling simply for his pay, measuring every\\neffort by the dollar it brings, or is his work one of\\nlove and duty Is each worker on every plane try\u00c2\u00ac\\ning to bring more happiness to the world than is now\\nfound therein What is the purpose which prompts\\nthe activities of life? \u00e2\u0080\u009cWisdom is more precious\\nthan rubies, and all things that can be desired are not\\nto be compared unto her.\u00e2\u0080\u009d With all thy getting, oh\\nchildren of earth, get understanding!", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT\\n37\\nCHAPTER V.\\nTHOUGHT.\\nOur thoughts are odors, and we cannot seal them\\nSo close with actions, but they will creep out;\\nAnd delicately-fashioned souls will feel them,\\nAnd know them sweet, or vile, beyond a doubt.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nHOUGHT is the reservoir from which certain pur-\\n1 poses flow, while others emanate from feeling,\\nfrom deeper wells of intuitive consciousness, and for\\nthese, thought is the actor and agent of expression.\\nBut a true and wise purpose is often diverted from\\nits achievement by adverse, or trivial thought-\\ncurrents, with which connection is inadvertently\\nmade. Thought is not purely automatic. It is\\nexcited by everything seen, and the character of the\\nthing observed will determine the nature of the\\nthought. It is therefore desirable to choose an\\nenvironment which is harmonious, beautiful and\\nwholesome, and to tolerate, only when prevention is", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "38 CUBES AND SPHERES.\\nimpossible, the things which are unclean, angular\\nand repulsive.\\nIt is affirmed that thoughts are things. The\\nassertion is one that is open to controversy. But\\nthat all things in material expression are the product\\nof thought, none will logically deny; and that such\\nexpressions may undergo radical changes as a result\\nof thought, is doubtless true. Thoughts are things\\nto one who comprehends their reality; they are not\\nthings to any one else. Human intellect reasons\\nfrom the abstract to the concrete. In the world of\\nspirit, the concrete is the reality. There, thoughts\\nindeed are things. They have only recently come to\\nbe so considered among men, as humanity grows\\nnearer its spiritual self-hood, and therefore gains\\nrecognition of the true and the real. To many\\nthinkers, thoughts remain forces rather than things,\\nand this may be a wiser, universal designation in the\\npresent development of the race.\\nThat crowning glory of our nation the Con\u00c2\u00ac\\ngressional Library at Washington resplendent in\\nthe beauty of its symmetrical architecture, rich and", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT\\n39\\nornate in every detail from basement to dome, its\\nwealth of decoration, its convenience and adapta\u00c2\u00ac\\nbility to the purpose for which it was designed,\\nstands as a noble monument of the materialization\\nof artistic thought.\\nAh, what a piece of work is man How like a\\ngod in his possibilities, his skill, his marvellous\\nachievements And thought is the lever with which\\nhe lifts the world to his ideal of beauty and service.\\nAnd thought ever enriches the thinker. By the\\nbeautiful law of reciprocity, thought correspondingly\\neffects for weal or woe the life of every thinker,\\nmaking his character more angular or spherical as\\nhis mental vibrations are crude or refined. His\\nthought-life has created the sciences of phrenology,\\nphysiognomy and palmistry, now held in such high\\nesteem, which in their turn hold a life record as\\naccurate as the book of recording angel.\\nAll truth is important, but the relative value of\\ndifferent phases of truth are determined by their use\\nin application. Know thyself,\u00e2\u0080\u009d for by such knowl\u00c2\u00ac\\nedge all other selves are in greater degree understood.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "4 o\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nThe science of physiognomy is deserving of more\\nattention than at present it receives. A thorough\\nknowledge of this science converts the furrows and\\npencilings of time seen upon the face into a veritable\\nsoul biography. It is not desirable for an elderly\\nface to be without wrinkles. Note the grand coun\u00c2\u00ac\\ntenances of Gladstone, of Longfellow, or of Wendell\\nPhillips, so deeply furrowed, not with the lines of worry\\nand care, but chiselled by the noble thought which\\nhas been theirs. Be riot ashamed of wrinkles, unless\\nthey are of the wrong kind. Strong thought leaves\\nan indelible impress, in loving characters, of the\\nthinker\u00e2\u0080\u0099s character. All minds are architects of\\ncharacter, and thought-activity is daily constructing a\\ntemple for the indwelling of the spirit. Then let all\\nthought-life be directed and focused upon that which\\nis good. \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhatsoever things are true, whatsoever\\nthings are honest, whatsoever things are just, what\u00c2\u00ac\\nsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,\\nwhatsoever things are of good report; if there be any\\nvirtue, and if there be any praise, think on these\\nthings.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT.\\n41\\nThe law of reflex action is inexorable, and thinking\\nof that which is good, recognizing only the good in\\neverybody and everything will find correspondence\\nwith good, will create it in the heart of the thinker,\\nwhile, baleful thoughts, through the same law, will\\ncancel every obligation with coin from its own spuri\u00c2\u00ac\\nous mint. The body is unquestionably moulded by\\nthought. An erect pose of the body, an open, frank\\nexpression of the countenance, and the honest eye\\nreveals habits of righteous thinking, as also does dis\u00c2\u00ac\\ntortion, ugliness, and the shifting glance disclose the\\nconsequence of evil thought.\\nLongevity of physical life, good health, as well as\\nrefined and classical features, owe their origin to\\nproper thought. Through the right kind of thinking\\nan irregular face may become an object of universal\\nadmiration, beautiful in every expression. The best\\nlotion for the complexion is pure thoughts, constantly\\nexpressed. Character can be determined by a per\u00c2\u00ac\\nson\u00e2\u0080\u0099s gait, and is often most perfectly portrayed\\nin the laugh. When in that most sacred place, the\\ndining-room, the character of the conversation, which", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "CUBES AND SPHERES.\\n42\\nis but an outward expression of thought, cannot be\\ntoo carefully guarded. No angry thought should\\never enter here, whether unuttered, or expressed.\\nNot only is material food here consumed, but thought\\nchemicals inhere in all food chemicals, and through\\nthe process of digestion and assimilation compose\\nthe chemistry of the body.\\nA healthy body is a natural companion of a lofty\\nspirit. None will deny that the spirit of man acts\\nupon the body, and it is clearly true that that which\\ncan be acted upon is in turn capable of reacting.\\nLet every particle of food be well seasoned with jolly,\\nhappy laughter, and thoroughly mixed with the best\\nand purest thoughts. Think strength, not weakness\\ngrowth, not decay; fortune, not misfortune. Con\u00c2\u00ac\\ntemplate health, beauty and symmetry, not disease,\\nugliness and angularity, for as a man thinketh in\\nhis heart, so is he.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThink not of crime nor of criminals. It is a\\npublic disgrace that the secular press finds, or thinks\\nit finds, it necessary to publish, with such vivid,\\nharrowing descriptions, the appalling wickedness of", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT.\\n43\\nthe day. They thus send forth a poisonous influence\\ninto the thought-world whose extent none can com\u00c2\u00ac\\npute. Capital punishment is only legalized murder,\\nand every time a criminal is executed the thought-\\nworld is deluged with newspaper descriptions of the\\nevent, thereby gratifying a morbid and polluted\\ntaste. By ceasing to engage in the business of\\nmurder itself, the State would make its own thought-\\nworld purer, and inspire thoughts of kindness and\\nnot revenge, of reformation and not punishment.\\nThe murderer is the product of cramped and unholy\\nthought, and the gallows is but a ghastly relic of\\nbarbaric thinking. The cause, of which the mur\u00c2\u00ac\\nderer is an effect, was the thought of ignorance, the\\nworld\u00e2\u0080\u0099s chief sin. Change the nature of the thought,\\nand you remove the cause, and as a logical conse\u00c2\u00ac\\nquence the murderer emerges from his barbaric,\\nuncivilized condition and begins to thread the\\ndevious path of progress.\\nThought is a builder of ladders, upon the rungs of\\nwhich we ascend to the heights of divine realization\\nor descend to degradation, darkness and despair.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "44\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nThe true end of living is to be happy and to make\\nothers happy. Pleasure should not be confounded\\nwith happiness or remain the goal of one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s ambition,\\nfor simple pleasure is often associated with selfish\\ngratification and frequently encourages only the\\nbaser senses. Pleasure may be enjoyed without\\ngaining happiness, but when happiness is secured,\\npleasure is constant.\\nIn order to achieve all possible happiness, perfect\\nconfidence in the future, the future of this world as\\nwell as the next, must be fully maintained. Perfect\\nconfidence in the future is always conducive to\\npassivity and serenity in the present. Anticipated\\nhappiness reflects its light all along the pathway to\\nrealization. Confidence in the future makes such\\nanticipation possible. The thought of the future\\nshould be one continual serene hope, since only\\nOmnipotent Good reigns.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "SELE-ASSER TION.\\n45\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nSELF-ASSERTION.\\nO assert one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s self may be prolific of more or less\\nx friction, nevertheless, when this proves true, it\\nonly demonstrates that there still remain some angu\u00c2\u00ac\\nlarities of character to be softened and transformed\\nthrough such friction. Self-assertion is often defined\\nas being nothing more than blind self-conceit, or an\\nindiscriminate impulse. Even were this the highest\\nconception of self-dominance, it is still best to assert\\nthe same. The experience thus gained will doubtless\\nbe unpleasant, but the result of the experience will\\ndevelop a calm judgment and a superior consciousness\\nof moral faculties. The process will prove the\\ncleansing fire of the gold cast in the furnace. Truth\\nis often impotent, good lacks sovereign power, and\\nvillany therefore triumphs, from the want of self-\\nreliance and self-consciousness. When self-assertion\\nis maintained, its possessor is bound to suffer at first,", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "46\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nbut will finally be freed from the undesirable com\u00c2\u00ac\\npanionship of conceit, and gain the fellowship of a\\ntrue, strong and beautiful self-reliance. The effer\u00c2\u00ac\\nvescence and perturbation of vanity will yield to\\nconsistency and a democracy of interest in all\\nmankind.\\nIt is not incompatible with modesty for a person\\nto feel that he is, in certain ways, superior to others,\\nthat for a certain mission peculiar gifts have been\\nvouchsafed him. Is it best to do good by stealth,\\nand blush to find it shame Untamed animalism\\nis bold conceit, a turbid stream. Spirituality is the\\nclear-flowing river of calm, serene repose, in the con\u00c2\u00ac\\nsciousness of a true and higher self-hood. The lover\\nof truth is not the master of the liar, but truth is the\\nmaster of all falsity and of that vanity which tempo\u00c2\u00ac\\nrarily bestows success upon its servants, but is a\\nfalse height, from which recession is necessary to\\ngain a true spiritual elevation.\\nA liberal seasoning of self-reliance is frankly\\nadmitted to be of incalculable value to the leader in\\npublic affairs. If this be true, then this quality more", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "SELE-ASSER TION.\\n47\\ndeveloped in the man of private life would release\\nhim from the frequently unjust dominion of the\\nformer. Self-confidence has been suppressed by\\nmany means until, as a result, some natures of a\\nmorbid humility consider themselves to be worthless,\\nand have surrendered to despair. The law of the\\nState apprehends the morally depraved, keeps them\\nlong enough to stifle aspiration and self-reliance,\\nsubjects them to an association which breeds more\\ndepravity, and then releases its victim to vitiate the\\nchannels of public thought.\\nWhen will the State be governed by laws patterned\\nmore closely after the divine law of Nature Drastic\\ntreatment should have no other view, or object, than\\nreformation. It is pre-eminently the duty of all who\\nare emancipated from the thraldom of depraved incli\u00c2\u00ac\\nnations to educate the unfortunate victim of untoward\\ncircumstances and generate within him the idea that\\nhe is one of God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s children, that he has a divine self\u00c2\u00ac\\nhood to unfold and cultivate. By such a process\\nthose lives already good are made better; by\\nneglecting this obligation, and seeking to reform by\\npunishment, the desired end is not attained.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "4 8\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nThere can be found no department of life where\\nself-assertion will not prove of much benefit. It\\nmight be argued that such advantage depends upon\\nwhat kind of a self-hood is to be asserted. There is\\nonly one true self-hood which is one with the Supreme\\nSelf, \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe only Self of all creatures.\u00e2\u0080\u009d In the final\\nanalysis it will be found that the true self of every one\\nis that priceless gem of God-hood-ness which through\\nNature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s process and divine intention is destined to\\nan immortality, glorious and perfect as the pristine\\nEternal Life. If any soul, because of a limited aspira\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, is environed by a clutter-pile which is disagree\u00c2\u00ac\\nable to the more sensitive observer, it is plainly the\\nduty of the more enlightened nature to help the\\nstruggling one to clear away the rubbish of unright\u00c2\u00ac\\neous thought and puerile living, thereby giving the\\nsoul a chance to unfold and progress. Lack of\\ncharity toward the faults of others portrays a fault in\\nourselves. The real self often is recognized, only\\nafter repeated triumphs over the baser and lower\\nattachments which, like barnacles, have become\\nfastened upon the ego.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "SELF-ASSER T/ON.\\n49.\\nIt is difficult, if not impossible, to give proper\\nimportance to our regal powers, until the true rela\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion of self to God is clearly recognized. The spirit\\nof man is the same in quality as the Spirit of God.\\nMan is not infinite, because his spirit is not infinite\\nin quantity, but every man is a spirit, and in that spirit\\nabideth the I Am of all causation. A recogni\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion of this truth is the solvent of all doubts and\\nfears, and leads to a serene confidence in an inner\\nability to cope with all the vicissitudes of life. A\\npossession of this recognition at once destroys all\\ndisease, since Divinity can only express immaculate\\nhealth, makes of, every trial a stepping-stone to\\nhappiness, annuls the idea of death as a calamity, and\\nrelates it to our thought as an orderly arranged and\\ndesirable experience in life.\\nA recognition of this spiritual power of self-hood\\nperfects a dominancy which enables all to look upon\\nthe catalogue of evil as a volume filled only with\\nunrealities. The assertion of true self-hood unfolds\\na thorough and faithful consideration of the problems\\nof life, by gaining at-one-ment with the Infinite", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "go CUBES AND SPHERES.\\ndesign. It trusts no longer, without question, the\\nteachings and conclusions of others. Too long has\\nit been taught, and confidently accepted, that man is\\ntotally depraved and that he needs to be regenerated.\\nIt is not necessary to consider the value of such\\nteachings as have obtained in the past, for with our\\npresent enlightenment we know that every soul is\\nborn of God, and is as pure as God himself is pure.\\nThe baser senses of mankind are not regenerated and\\nutilized as vehicles of expression on a higher plane of\\nsense perception; they are outgrown and left\\nbehind, as the soul climbs upward to grasp and wield\\nmore spiritual faculties and powers. Evolution pro\u00c2\u00ac\\nclaims this a truth, and nineteenth-century-common-\\nsense lends thereto its unqualified endorsement.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThat which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that\\nwhich is born of the spirit is spirit.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThere would be more wisdom in clothing a monitor\\nwith pewter armor, than a soul with the sensualities\\nof the fleshly senses. \u00e2\u0080\u009cYe must be born again,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nday by day, yea, the soul must daily gain a new\\nbirth in a better understanding of its own powers.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "SELF-ASSERTION. 5 1\\nThe true self, with its importance asserted, will be\\nled into the rightful province of activity, the realm of\\nspirit, the only reality, the supreme power. Doubt\u00c2\u00ac\\nless the reason for teaching the total depravity of\\nman, in the past, was due to the fact that the teacher\\nhad failed to gain recognition of the real self, being\\nblinded to it by external manifestations of undevel\u00c2\u00ac\\noped and primal states.\\nHowbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but\\nthat which is natural; and afterward that which is\\nspiritual.\u00e2\u0080\u009d There is therefore now no condemna\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion to them who walk not after the flesh but\\nafter the spirit.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Whatever may be the circum\u00c2\u00ac\\nstances and conditions which obtain in the world of\\nexcarnate spirits, here in this sphere different states\\nof consciousness are observed in life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s multitudinous\\nexpressions. The present hour finds progressive\\nsouls in an attitude of conscious perception, entirely\\ndifferent from that of yesterday. A man is master\\nof mathematics to-day, who only a few years ago was\\nignorant of the science. Does his former ignorance\\nbear any relation to his present knowledge Did he", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "52 CUBES AND SPHERES.\\nconvert his former ignorance of the science into his\\npresent attainments On the contrary, he destroyed\\nignorance and overcame it by asserting his divine\\nright to knowledge. The man who has grown into a\\nspiritual understanding of spiritual things, does not\\nlook upon his glorious acquisition as being related to\\nhis former materiality, but as being quite foreign to\\nit. His spiritual attitude is the result of growth in\\nconsciousness of his real self-hood and the assertion\\nof his divine birthright.\\nEach soul, independent of his environments, is the\\nequal of any other soul. If those possessed of more\\nfavorable light and knowledge are really desirous of\\nbeholding a society that is strong and pure, expres\u00c2\u00ac\\nsive of a large manhood and womanhood, they will\\nlabor for the development of purity and the unfold-\\nment of the divine possibilities to be found in\\nevery individual.\\nPresent methods of suppressing vice often prove\\nto be but incubators for the production of its own\\nlegitimate offspring. The life which finds it impos\u00c2\u00ac\\nsible to assert itself either from lack of disposition or", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "SELF-ASSER T/ON\\n53\\nfrom hindrance from extraneous circumstances, pos\u00c2\u00ac\\nsesses a legitimate claim to help from those who\\nwield a greater power. The assertion of true self\u00c2\u00ac\\nhood is but an expression of the God within. The\\npower to accomplish is only limited by a wisdom of\\nhow to perform. Wisdom is only gained through\\nexperience. An intelligent experience is only possi\u00c2\u00ac\\nble by and through assertion of the higher self, which\\nleads at length to that goal of all striving\u00e2\u0080\u0094 selfless\u00c2\u00ac\\nness the polar opposite of human selfishness, too\\noften the highest expression of personal dominance.\\nBut the selfish man is learning his strength, building\\nup his individuality. Despise him not. The\\nladder by which he climbs to spiritual heights must\\nrest upon materiality. We rise on the stepping-\\nstones of our dead selves to conscious realization\\nof the Supreme Self.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "54\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nPERCEPTION AND REFLECTION.\\nHROUGH timely reflection many of the rough\\n1 and angular features of external life are\\navoided, and natural tendencies are rounded and\\nmodified. As soon as the grand possibilities of\\nlife are conceived, habits of meditation and reflection\\nshould be formed, that only the wisest and best\\npaths be pursued. Life is too often a careless,\\naimless drifting, uninspired by any masterful pur\u00c2\u00ac\\npose. A careful phrenological examination of a\\nlarge number of persons would reveal the fact that\\nthe reflective faculties are sadly deficient. The\\ncause of this seems easily traceable to the lack of\\nactivity in this department of thought.\\nThe almost savage encounter for material gain in\\nthe warfare of the world has sharpened and intensi\u00c2\u00ac\\nfied the perceptive faculties upon the external\\nplane. Pre-natal tendencies have stamped every", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "PERCEPTION AND REFLECTION. 55\\nchild of earth with a natural endowment in this\\ndirection. The rigorous hardships of primal civili\u00c2\u00ac\\nzation, the penury, want and misery which ob\u00c2\u00ac\\ntained, directed the reasoning faculties of genera\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions then unborn into the channel of material\\nactivity. This condition now exists, and is the\\nlegitimate sequence to a conspiring cause found in\\nprimal states. The constant exercise of this faculty\\nof perception upon the lower plane has prepared it\\nfor a keener appreciation of the higher spiritual\\nlife, if its activity can thus be conserved.\\nSome of the failures of life are doubtless due to a\\nlack of power to perceive opportunities, but more are\\ndue to a lack of proper reflection which leads to a\\nmature judgment of how to properly appropriate\\nsuch opportunities. Mankind is endowed with many\\nfaculties which are practically dormant, and in some\\ninstances the highest and best powers are found in\\na very inactive condition. In an attempt to perform\\nthe duties of life well, familiarity with all the imple\u00c2\u00ac\\nments of work is an absolute necessity.\\nHowever keen and active perception may become,", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "5 6 CUBES AND SPHERES.\\nthe cultivation of the reflective faculties must greatly\\nenhance its value. It is not advisable to make a\\nspecialty of developing one faculty to the neglect of\\nanother, notwithstanding this is a most common\\nmethod of procedure. The framework of human\\nestates will be found, as a result, to be out of\\nproportion, deficient in architectural beauty and\\nsymmetry.\\nTo properly cultivate and train every faculty and\\ndevelop each upon a plane of perfect unison with\\nevery other is the pattern set by the great Architect\\nof the Universe. Such a process produces not the\\ncubical, angular, one-sided being, but the man of\\nspherical harmony.\\nEverybody is cognizant of ever-recurring phe\u00c2\u00ac\\nnomena in nature, but their significance is only\\nappreciated by the thoughtful observer. The pres\u00c2\u00ac\\nentation of a phenomenon is an invitation from God,\\nto all of His children, to investigate it, to reflect\\nupon it, and to become familiar with the truth which\\nit reveals. The ways of God may have seemed\\n/\u00e2\u0080\u0098past finding out,\u00e2\u0080\u009d but if this be true, it has not", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "PERCEPTION AND REFLECTION.\\n57\\nbeen due to His unwillingness to reveal Himself to\\nthe limit of human receptivity, but to the stupidity\\nand ignorance of His children. Humanity must\\nlearn its own lessons. No one can accept a truth for\\nanother. The constant presentation of phenomena\\nis a universal invitation from the Schoolmaster of all\\nmankind to comprehend His laws. God has ever\\nrevealed Himself, and is constantly unfolding more\\nand more of Truth to all earnest students. If God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nlaws are to be known, they are to be studied, and\\nhabits of deep reflection will eventually reveal the\\npurposes of all phenomena.\\nWho has not seen an untrained team in its attempt\\nto draw a heavy load The effort is always spas\u00c2\u00ac\\nmodic and jerky, while the draught horses move the\\nsame load with apparent ease and composure. Per\u00c2\u00ac\\nception, without reflection, is a harness in which\\nmankind yanks and twists and wastes his vital energy\\nin an effort to move the burdens of life, while reflec\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion designs and solves all problems of difficulty,\\nconverts every load into a stepping-stone on which\\nto mount higher, and transforms discouragement into", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "5 8 CUBES AND SPHERES.\\na never-failing resource of courage and conscious\\npower.\\nReflection leads to the goal of contentment; not\\nto a satisfaction necessarily with present attainments,\\nbut to a consciousness of an inherent ability to make\\nreal the idealities of life. By the use of this faculty,\\ninterior potentialities are realized. One should\\nalways be able to find self a delightful companion,\\nthus escaping that too common frailty of desiring to\\nkill time,\u00e2\u0080\u009d because of ennui and unrest. Repose,\\nwhich is the key to spiritual power, the greatest need\\nto-day of the race or the individual, can only be\\ngained through self-poise and persistent habits of\\ncalm, introspective reflection.\\nRepose is sure to make of self a delightful friend,\\nwho will always prove entertaining and instructive,\\nfilling up the time so profitably that every moment is\\nconsidered of precious worth. Reflection is the open\\nsesame to companionship, not only with self, but with\\nall people and things. It attracts friends from all\\nforms of life. It makes of the past a delightful\\nreminiscence, and of future experiences, pleasant", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "PERCEPTION AND REFLECTION.\\n59\\nanticipations. It creates an ideal world where beauty\\nreigns supreme, where color is beheld unceasingly\\nwaving her palms of splendor, where the rattling\\nthunder, the raindrops upon the roof, the softly fall\u00c2\u00ac\\ning crystals of snow, are all chords of a celestial\\nchorus while laughter and tears, shadows and sun\u00c2\u00ac\\nshine are revealed in this light, as an orderly language\\nof Nature.\\nWhether man considers himself as a member of a\\nhomogeneous or hetrogeneous community, he is a part\\nof society, and is therefore a scion, dependent for his\\ngrowth upon the fructification of the whole tree.\\nSuccess in life depends largely upon the harmonious\\nadjustment of one member of society to all other\\nmembers. Repose is not compatible with angry\\nperturbations. Anger never generates amiability.\\nIf success on any plane is desired, affability to others\\nmust be cultivated. Study the art of repose, for\\nrepose develops harmony, and good nature is an\\nindispensable agency to success. Repose is likewise\\nthe helpmate in obtaining material advantages, but\\nsuccess means far more than mere money-getting,", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "6o\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nyet upon whatever path to prosperity man yields\\nhimself as devotee, the attitude of self-contained\\nrepose will be found of incalculable value.\\nHowever important or far-reaching become the\\nactive relations of one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s life, they will be found to be\\nthe result of tact, push and principle, breathed into\\neach little act of life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s opportunities. The habit of\\nreflecting carefully is gained just as any other habit\\nis made namely, by small beginnings. As a process\\nof training in this school, it will be found most profit\u00c2\u00ac\\nable to carefully reflect before giving answer to\\neven the most trivial questions. If a question is\\nworthy of an answer, the questioner can afford to\\nwait for a reply resultant upon mature reflection. If\\ncare is given to the small considerations of life, the\\nlarger and more important affairs will certainly not\\nbe neglected, but receive that character of thought\\nwhich mature judgment alone can give.\\nThe school-boy\u00e2\u0080\u0099s water-wheel which he has con\u00c2\u00ac\\nstructed out of a cross stick, into which he has\\ninserted a few paddles, is to him just as important as\\nthe giant wheel which is employed to propel the", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "PERCEPTION AND REFLECTION 6 j\\nmachinery of a great factory. Observe that little\\nboy as he stands there by the side of his production,\\nwith his pantaloons rolled up to his not over-clean\\nknees, watching his water-wheel go spinning around\\nunder the gentle touch of the silvery cascade, already,\\nby his small experiment, cultivating his reflective\\nfaculties. Give that little fellow a chance, and to the\\ncar of progress he will harness new steeds of power,\\nwhich will drive the world onward at a diviner speed.\\nThat boy standing in the playground, delivering a\\nharangue to his fellows, may be making an important\\npreparation for a power in oratory which, in subse\u00c2\u00ac\\nquent life, shall stir the waiting souls of humanity to\\na comprehension of higher revealments of truth.\\nThere can be no duty of life too menial to receive\\nthe stamp of God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s approval. Instead of disturbing\\nthe boy and seeking to thwart his ambition, because\\nhe is engaged in what seems an affair of trivial\\nimportance, encouragement should be given him to\\nperform well the little duties of his immature experi\u00c2\u00ac\\nence. An intelligent observation and cultivation of\\nlatent powers, or tendencies, will yield to the next\\ngeneration a better manhood and womanhood.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "62\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nReflection will give power of discrimination and\\nsave the world from many a blunder. Reflection\\nwill help every man to rightly measure his own abil\u00c2\u00ac\\nity, and thereby save him from much waste of energy\\ndevoted to departments of life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s activity to which he\\nis improperly adjusted. Many farms are but a barren\\nwilderness to-day, because of so many bad interpreters\\nof Blackstone, so many ranting preachers, so many\\nunsuccessful physicians, who in their chosen profes\u00c2\u00ac\\nsions have wasted their time and energy to the\\nneglect of the deserted farm. On the other hand,\\nmany a wilderness has been made to bloom and\\nblossom as the rose,\u00e2\u0080\u009d as the result of the uncongenial\\ntoil and sweat of the man who would have been an\\nr\\nornament to the bar, to the pulpit, or any other pro\u00c2\u00ac\\nfession. Proper adjustment of relations brings a\\nharmony to life. Reflection will lead to the proper\\ncorrespondence of all relations, will annul personal\\nambition, and prepare each soul now expressing its\\npurpose on earth, to fill just the niche for which it\\nwas intended, thus gaining the conquest and uplift-\\nment that it craves.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "SERVICE.\\n63\\nf\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nSERVICE.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd whosoever will be chief among you, let him be\\nyour servant.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nT HERE can be but one basic evolutionary law\\nthere is but one road that leads to soul free\u00c2\u00ac\\ndom. It would be an impossible task t\u00c2\u00a9 direct any\\nconduct toward the amelioration of the human\\nfamily without each self-hood becoming a co-partner\\nin its benefits. The race rises, or falls, as a unit.\\nTo do for others as you would be done by means\\nfar more than the performance of certain activities\\nof life. It comprehends all mental and spiritual\\nrelatioifs to your fellowmen. Bestowing charity\\nwhere it is needed is certainly commendable, but the\\nthought which accompanies the gift should be the\\nrichest gift of all. To give, simply to be freed from\\nsome troublesotrfe mendicant, may be but a paltry\\nprice paid for relief from an annoyance. The gift", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "6 4\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nmay answer certain demands of the unfortunate, but\\nthe thought is poison, and no one is nearer to its\\ninfectious potency than he who generates it.\\nIt is possible for a most selfish individual to pose\\nas the embodiment of generosity and unselfishness.\\nThe donor of magnificent gifts is not always a\\nphilanthropist. There has lived many a benefactor\\nwith a soul stirred to deeds of kindness, who has\\nnever bestowed anything of value upon one needy\\nbrother without also helping to symmetrize and\\nmake more beautiful the thought of the world,\\ngreatly adding to the riches of the great Common\u00c2\u00ac\\nwealth. It is equally true that charitable institu\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions have been endowed, colleges have been built\\nand sustained, public libraries have been equipped\\nwith all the best literature of the ages, while\\nsuch institutions have been only memorials of the\\nmisanthropist.\\nTo be favored with an opportunity to advance and\\nimprove the material and mental condition of one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s fel-\\nlowmen, and then to perform such act with unworthy\\nsentiments or with a view of making a display for", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "SER VICE.\\n65\\nselfish aggrandizement, is a malefeasance of that\\nhigh office and power which material wealth has\\ngiven. A gift, in order to represent the greatest\\npossible value, must include with it the life of the\\ndonor.\\nWho gives himself with his alms feeds three,\\nHimself, his hungry neighbor, and Me.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe man who is a servant to the people, who gives\\nhis life, without reservation, for the good of others,\\nwho uses his resources, without stint, to meet the\\nphysical, spiritual, and mental wants of the com\u00c2\u00ac\\nmunity is, though a servant, clothed in the regal\\nsplendor of honorable manhood.\\nHas not the soul of man sometimes been veiled in\\ndarkness and become \u00e2\u0080\u009cpenny-poor\u00e2\u0080\u009d in its \u00e2\u0080\u009cpound-\\nplenty process of giving It is not best to place\\ntoo high an estimate upon things purely material\\nunless in their use, divine purposes are answered.\\nToo great significance cannot be attached to the\\nspirit and thought given to the world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s service.\\nNo thought of placing the beneficiary under\\nobligations for services rendered or under allegiance", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "66\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nto any belief of a social, political, or religious creed,\\nor even a demand for the reciprocity of friendship,\\nshould accompany any favor bestowed. There\\nshould be a complete surrender of the best there is\\nin self, with the supreme desire to make all others\\nhappier thereby, and to endow each heart with the\\nmotive power of love that will enable them to\\njoin their chariot of life to the purposes of the\\nAlmighty.\\nThrough the process of giving one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s self as a\\nwilling sacrifice upon the altar of human need,\\nthought co-operation is established, and by con\u00c2\u00ac\\njunctive thought, all selves are kept more closely in\\ntouch with the Supreme Self. Like the swinging of\\nthe pendulum of the clock which divides time into\\nseconds, has the great pendulum of human thought\\nbeen separating the interests of mankind into indi\u00c2\u00ac\\nvidual units, but now signs are apparent upon the\\nhorizon of human advancement, of an advent of\\ntremendous impulse for co-operative thought and\\naction.\\nA deeper devotion for the welfare of all is needed", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "SERVICE. 67\\nand a rendering of the same to the world. This\\naltruistic spirit is in conformity with the operation of\\nthat law, by and through which, divine power is\\nderived. To work in conformity therewith, infuses\\nwarmth and cheer into all environments, gives to\\nself, as to all others, a greater peace and joy, as well\\nas physical power and vigor. Through a true self\u00c2\u00ac\\nless benevolence, association is gained with realities\\nof eternal significance.\\nBeneath the rough exterior of humanity exists far\\nmore beautiful qualities than could possibly be deter\u00c2\u00ac\\nmined from a superficial view of their expression.\\nBenevolence, true Christian charity, good-will, phil-\\nanthrophy and unselfishness are at the centre of all\\nmankind, innately, because at the heart, or centre, is\\nGod, from whom are derived all vitalizing powers, all\\nof beauty, and the germ of every divine attribute.\\nSometimes man is unconsciously a more faithful\\nservant to his neighbors\u00e2\u0080\u0099 needs than he realizes.\\nEven an unconscious practise of virtue is attended\\nwith good results, not only to the world at large but\\nalso to him who unwittingly lives such moral life. It", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "68\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nis often a pathway to a realization of virtue\u00e2\u0080\u0099s value, a\\nmeans of attaining a conscious relationship with\\ndivine similitude. A man does not study medicine\\nbecause he expects to be always suffering with colic\\nhimself, but because he knows of the prevalence of\\nphysical ills, and therefore that there will be a\\ndemand for his services. No one learns how to spin\\ncotton because he means to fill large storehouses\\nwith yarn, but because he knows that this product is\\na general necessity. It is always the general service\\nwhich calls for and determines all individual\\nproficiency.\\nAt the portals of each individual life is inscribed\\nthe consciousness that all are brethren; that personal\\npleasure and gratification are not the purposes of\\nliving; that every man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s duties lie just where the\\nneeds of his fellowmen most loudly call; that the\\nhighest good is reaped in pursuing a universal ser\u00c2\u00ac\\nvice to the great brotherhood of humanity, thus\\nfulfilling the design of Infinite Love. This humani\u00c2\u00ac\\ntarian spirit has been thus nobly expressed by Rev.\\nJohn Newton: \u00e2\u0080\u009cI see in this world two heaps", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "SERVICE.\\n69\\none of human happiness and one of misery. Now,\\nif I can take the smallest bit from the second heap\\nand add to the first, I carry a point. If, as I go\\nhome, a child has dropped a halfpenny, and if, by\\ngiving it another, I can wipe away its tears, I feel\\nthat I have done something. I should be glad,\\nindeed, to do great things, but I will not neglect\\nsuch little ones as these.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nHonor the Lord with thy substance, and the first-\\nfruits of all thine increase, so shall thy barns be filled\\nwith plenty, and thy presses burst out with new wine.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nA mere bestowal of material wealth, having some\\nulterior purpose back of such action, will seldom be\\nrewarded according to scriptural promise. If it were,\\nselfishness, ere this, would have discovered in it a\\nmeans of profitable investment. The spirit and\\nmanner of giving, of whatever name or nature, should\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098honor\u00e2\u0080\u009d the God within, and copy divine methods.\\nA man may be strictly honest toward others, in the\\ncommercial world, and at the same time lack the\\nspirit of real honesty and benevolence. A commer\u00c2\u00ac\\ncially honest man who benefits society by his example", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "CUBES AND SPHERES.\\n70\\nof integrity, may offset this good influence by his\\npersonal selfishness.\\nIt has been said concerning the false standard of\\nthe selfish man, that \u00e2\u0080\u009cTo maintain an extensive\\nestablishment, to carry high before the world, to\\nsettle his children respectably in life, to maintain a\\nsystem of costly self-indulgence, these are the\\nobjects that swallow up all his gains, and keep him in\\na constant fever and covetousness at the sight of\\nothers\u00e2\u0080\u0099 prosperity, rendering him loth to part with\\na fraction of his property for benevolent purposes,\\nand making him feel as if every farthing of his money\\nso employed were a diversion of that farthing from\\nthe great ends of life. New channels of benevolence\\nmay open around him in all directions, but, as far as\\nhe is concerned, those channels must remain dry;\\nfor, like the sand of the desert, he absorbs all the\\nbounty which heaven rains on him, and still craves\\nfor more.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Such a life is not respectable, because of\\nits selfishness, and it is too narrow to be successful.\\nNo one should limit his thoughts to money alone,\\nwhen practising benevolence. Gold is the least of", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "SERVICE. 71\\ngifts. It is the spirit of true self-hood-ness, not self\u00c2\u00ac\\nness, the God within, which prompts to benevolent\\nacts, kindness and generosity. Benevolence, in the\\nbroadest sense, is not only essential to a decent\\ncharacter, but is essential to a sane mind and a sound\\nheart.\u00e2\u0080\u009d That soul has gained emancipation from the\\nbondage of selfishness who has lived such a life as to\\nbe able, when the curtain is falling upon all scenes of\\nhuman activity, to say conscientiously, with Bonar:\\nUp, and away, like the colors of sunset,\\nThat sweeten the twilight as darkness comes on;\\nSo be my life, a thing felt, but not noticed,\\nOnly remembered by what I have done.\\nNot myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken,\\nNot myself, but the seed that in life I have sown,\\nShall pass on to ages all about me forgotten,\\nSave the truths I have spoken, the good I have done.\\nSo let my living be, so be my dying,\\nSo let my name lie unblazoned, unknown;\\nUnpraised and unmissed, I shall still be remembered,\\nYes, but remembered by what I have done.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "72\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nINHERENT POWER.\\nO completely did Christ feel the indwelling power\\nof God that he could say, All power is given\\nunto me, both in heaven and in earth.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Supreme\\nrealization Centuries of wrong thought-suggestion,\\n(it can hardly be called thinking, for a few have done\\nall the thinking for the many), has led mankind to\\nlook upon itself as a weak, impotent worm of the\\ndust,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and, as a consequence, its birthright of power\\nhas dwindled into a reflection of that mistaken\\nthought-picture.\\nIn whatever condition man has found himself, he\\nhas sought consolation from the thought that Divine\\nProvidence so ordered it. However angular or dis\u00c2\u00ac\\ncordant life seemed, some satisfaction has been\\ngained in the assurance that God knoweth best.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nRecent years have wrought wonderful changes in\\nthis respect, and now, more than ever before, man", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "INHERENT ROWER.\\n73\\nrefuses to submit to unripe conditions, but is com\u00c2\u00ac\\npelling all circumstances to surrender their sover\u00c2\u00ac\\neignty to his will, realizing as he does that the\\nhuman will, in accordance with the Divine Will, is\\nlord of conditions, the creator of circumstances rather\\nthan their servile creature.\\nThe inherent power of man has only in a few iso\u00c2\u00ac\\nlated cases been realized. All power was Christ\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nbecause of his recognition of his true relation to God,\\nbecause of his conscious at-one-ment, which enabled\\nhim to declare \u00e2\u0080\u009cI and my Father are one.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Is it\\npossible for any man to likewise say, \u00e2\u0080\u009cAll power is\\ngiven unto me Of a truth it may be said by all.\\nDoes not all power dwell in God, and does not God\\ndwell in each of His children But a realization of\\nHis power is necessary before it can be used. The\\nelephant is led about with a hook and kept in com\u00c2\u00ac\\nplete subjection to man, whose physical strength is\\nless than a hundredth part of his own, simply because\\nof his imperfect comprehension of his own power.\\nMan also fashions his life in puerile grooves, limits\\nhis own grasp of power because of his human sepa\u00c2\u00ac\\nrateness from Omnipotence.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "74\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nScience reveals that every chemical property found\\nin the earth and atmosphere are also to be found in\\nman. What latent forces have been discovered in\\nthese latent elements! Steam and electricity (and\\nthat new motive power, which is destined to work a\\nmechanical revolution, liquid air, to the perfect\\ndevelopment of which Mr. Chas. E. Tripler is devot\u00c2\u00ac\\ning his life) have been brought to pay tribute to\\nman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s ingenuity, revealing a giant in intellectual\\nresources of power. Where is the prophet bold\\nenough to predict what fifty years more will unfold\\nIn all these discoveries, the power of God innate in\\nman is displayed. And other powers are at man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\ncommand just as soon as he is competent to manage\\nthem, and sufficiently in earnest to discover them.\\nGod\u00e2\u0080\u0099s life throbs in the puffing steam as it hurls\\nthe train of movable palaces, temporarily inhabited\\nby his children, across a continent whose shores are\\ntied together with a ribbon of steel. Man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s victory\\nover space and approach to Omnipresence is felt in\\nthe electric spark, which has become an intelligent\\ncarrier for transmitting thought across continents, or,", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "INHERENT POWER. 75\\nthrough the deep ocean\u00e2\u0080\u0099s bed to weave a girdle\\naround the earth.\\nAristotle said, One must not obey those who bid\\nus think humbly as being mortal men, nay, rather,\\nwe should indulge immortal longings, and strive to\\ngain a full unfoldment of that divine possibility\\nwithin us which, though now dwarfed and stunted, is\\nthrobbing with that unexpressed potency, which is\\nindeed each man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s proper self. By living nearer an\\nimmortal standard our true individuality will be\\ndeveloped, the image and likeness of the divine\\npattern become a clearer reflection.\\nDisease, that affliction of the human family, that\\nnightmare and illusion of the race, which is purely\\nthe product of very bad habits of thinking, as asso\u00c2\u00ac\\nciated with self, or hereditary tendencies, may be\\nmost completely relegated to oblivion, by a complete\\ncognition of this inherent power, which is man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nbirthright. The God within is all sufficient for\\nevery human need, physical or spiritual. The mind\\nmay recognize the existence of matter, on the plane\\nof expression, but is in no sense its servant, and save", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "?6\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nwhen fettered by false education, is always the\\nmaster of its physical kingdom. There are other\\ndiseases than those of the body, whose cure likewise\\nlies within man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s province.\\nMoral impotency exists, where the passions for a\\ntime appear as iron-handed dictators. In business,\\npolitical, and professional life, conscience is squared\\nby a false standard of health or wholesomeness.\\nMany men in the various marts of trade or society,\\nhave so long indulged in conscience opiates, that\\nthey are really scoundrels without knowing it.\\nThe standard of moral healthfulness in the nation\\nwill be determined largely by that criterion of a\\nrighteous principle to which a strict allegiance is\\ngiven. There can be but one true standard of jus\u00c2\u00ac\\ntice and purity, and that is the matrix of the Divine\\nwithin.\\nSmall good would be accomplished by saying to\\nthis class of diseased people, \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098You should forsake\\nyour present ways of living.\u00e2\u0080\u009d If a man were deaf, it\\nwould be an aggravation to inform him that he\\nought to hear,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and it would be no more advisable\\nto thus treat any defect of character.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "INHERENT POWER.\\n77\\nThe parent who constantly impresses upon the\\nchild its shortcomings is unwittingly sowing seeds\\nof error which only divine power can save from their\\nlegitimate fruit in the debasement of that once fair\\nimage of God, until, as a sequel, it is clothed in the\\nstripes of the convict.\\nExternal expressions may be angular and uncouth,\\nbut the divine ideal is always symmetrical and beau\u00c2\u00ac\\ntiful. It is always the most precious gem, the jewel\\nof greatest worth, which receives the most care in\\npolishing and burnishing and that best repays the\\nlabor bestowed upon it. The joiner draws his chalk\u00c2\u00ac\\nline along the rough-skinned giant of the forest, with\\nno thought of its external encasement, and hews to\\nthe line, taking no note of the chips wasted in his\\nefforts, his chief object being to relieve the timber\\nwithin from its external husk and make of it a well-\\nproportioned member of the structure he is rearing.\\nIt is thus that character should be builded, according\\nto the divine model within the soul.\\nUseless would be the attempt to persuade a people\\nthat our potatoes were excellent food by offering", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "78\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nthem only the outer skin. So will man find difficulty\\nat every step, in any effort which he may make to\\nconvince his fellowmen of his own value, by offering\\nthem simply the external personality. He must\\nunfold the divine element within and then project it\\ninto the world.\\nEvery soul must work out its own salvation, must\\nawaken to its need through the quickening of the\\ngerm within, through the hunger and thirst of the\\nunsatisfied soul which craves divine communion, the\\ncrowning of its true self-hood with the regal power of\\nInfinity. How often the emergency of sudden need\\nhas developed great souls to be leaders of the people\\nin a manner to surprise even the chief actors them\u00c2\u00ac\\nselves, the powers of oratory, poetry or generalship,\\nlying latent within, being hitherto unsuspected.\\nThou dost not dream what forces lie in thee,\\nVast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAll improvements in self will be the result of a\\ncognition of inherent capabilities, and also such\\nemanations will, like an arrow of golden light,\\nillumine the pathway of all humanity.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "INHERENT POWER.\\n79\\nHow far that little candle sheds its beams,\\nSo shines a good deed in this naughty world.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nGood deeds are the legitimate results of a recog\u00c2\u00ac\\nnition of an ability to perform them, while such an\\nability generates a disposition towards beneficent\\naction. Has not mankind an inherent power to\\nalways do good, since his innate capacity is like unto\\nGod\u00e2\u0080\u0099s God is incapable of doing evil, therefore, a\\nrecognition of the God power which dwelleth in\\nevery soul gives a potency in quality, if not in magni\u00c2\u00ac\\ntude, like unto the perfection of the great Over-Soul,\\nwho is always good and in whose goodness is \u00e2\u0080\u009cno\\nvariableness nor shadow of turning.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nWhen related to its proper sphere, this inherent\\npower gives freedom from all jarring, all evil thought,\\nand that fearful curse Fear. It brings vigor and\\nlife to things inert and dead, and with its refreshing\\nwaters clothes the barren fields of human experience\\nwith a verdure of continual opportunities, nobly\\nimproved. Talents that are buried or neglected are\\nby its force exhumed and placed at a profitable\\nusury, so that unto him who hath shall be given,", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "8 o\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nmore and more abundantly, while the Infinite works\\nin and through us, His will and pleasure.\\nThe many ills common to all life can be averted or\\ngrandly borne only by the exercise of this divine,\\ninherent power. This innate, Godlike quality always\\nimages the pure and the good, while in turn the image,\\nthrough reflex action, helps to make the man. Old\\nage is seldom a welcome guest, and yet humanity is\\npersistently, though unconsciously, inviting it. Like\\nan electric button, the enunciator of old age is\\nexpectantly pressed more firmly with the advance of\\nyears. Nothing so hastens decrepitude as thinking\\nof worn-out conditions. Press the button of vigorous\\nand healthy thought and, like an electric light, these\\nelements will enter the darkened regions of weari\u00c2\u00ac\\nness and decrepitude. Nothing really grows old\\nbut the human consciousness, since on the psycho\u00c2\u00ac\\nlogical plane the body is daily and hourly renewed,\\nand we live our real life in a realm where Time\\nis not.\\nWith this inherent power as a conscious posses\u00c2\u00ac\\nsion, the beauty of all nature renders to the soul a", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "INHERENT POWER.\\n81\\ncontinual feast and blessing, and when by the seaside,\\nthe pebbles will sing and the waves will chant God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nglories. The mountains will inspire and uplift, the\\nfirmament will show forth His handiwork: the\\nsilence of the night will be vocal with sweet music:\\nthe stars will appear like the eyes of God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s tender\u00c2\u00ac\\nness, and the beauty of every human soul in any\\nguise will be seen, since the beauty of the Lord our\\nGod rests upon us all.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "82\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nCHAPTER X.\\nlife\u00e2\u0080\u0099s expression.\\nLet your light so shine before men, that they may see\\nyour good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nOD presents problems for mankind to solve,\\nbut keeps no guard of secrecy over any truth.\\nThe treasures of wisdom are not locked within His\\nbreast. All unwise secrecy, which so often governs\\nhuman action, is of close affinity to selfishness or\\nfear, which are not divine attributes and should be\\noutgrown by man.\\nLove casteth out all fear and makes of humanity\\na unit. True manhood can have no interests which\\nare not universal interests. Selfish ambition has\\nheld men in all walks of life, to put their \u00e2\u0080\u009clight\\nunder a bushel\u00e2\u0080\u009d instead of \u00e2\u0080\u009con a candlestick.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cYe are the light of the world. A city that sets\\non an hill cannot be hid.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Then let your light\\nshine. Millions have starved while eating juiceless", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "LIFE S EXPRESSION.\\n83\\nverbiages of doctrine, in their vain effort to get at\\nthe real sustenance which these wordy concoctions\\ncovered, or eclipsed. Many souls have groped\\nblindly in darkness while seeking the Light which\\nshines for all.\\nIt is plainly the duty of every teacher to inform\\nthose who are now in ignorance, and to share with\\nthem the measure of wealth he holds. The truth\\nshould be so presented that the plain, common people,\\nthe untutored minds, can comprehend it. In many\\ninstances, sentences containing grand truths could\\nbe selected from the precepts of preachers, which\\nare clothed in such language, and with such tech\u00c2\u00ac\\nnical stilted dignity, that pedantry is more readily\\ndiscernible than truth, at least by the novice. In\\ndays that are past, a priesthood, of questionable\\nvalue to the world, kept the truth, as it was dis\u00c2\u00ac\\ncovered, carefully guarded within their own precincts,\\nfearing if this knowledge became universal, that their\\npower over the people would speedily end.\\nThis seclusive spirit has been, through a miscon\u00c2\u00ac\\nception of right methods, transmitted to our present", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "8 4\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\ncondition of society. The country Squire, by virtue\\nof this fact, is almost worshipped by his fellow cit\u00c2\u00ac\\nizens he is looked upon as a creation of some\\nspecial order. So powerful is he, that a line fence\\ncannot be run, a farm cannot be sold, or a last will\\nand testament be drawn, without his assistance.\\nEven that tinker of timepieces, commonly called\\na jeweler, examines the lagging mechanism of some\\nrecreant watch which is unable longer to respond\\nto the pressure of the mainspring, simply because of\\naccumulated dust, assumes as wise a look as he can\\nresurrect, shakes his head dolefully and, with an air\\nof mystery, tells you that he finds the jewels all worn\\nout or broken; that it will be a difficult matter, at\\nbest, to repair it, but nevertheless for a certain fee,\\nhis wisdom will be equal to the emergency.\\nThe dentist will look in the mouth presented to\\nhim for inspection, and after a few moments of care\u00c2\u00ac\\nful examination, wrinkling his face with significant\\nfrowns, he finds the majority of its masticators, from\\nthe incisors to the molars, in a serious condition.\\nHe will proceed to inform his victim of this terrible", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "LIFE S EXPRESSION. 85\\nstate of affairs in such language of technicalities as\\nto leave no doubt in the sufferer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s mind of his fear\u00c2\u00ac\\nful need of professional services, although no word\\nuttered has been understood.\\nNote the physician, likewise, as he feels the pulse-\\nbeat and applies the stethoscope to the heart of his\\npatient. What a wise, solemn look mantles his here\u00c2\u00ac\\ntofore placid face It needs but an ominous shake\\nof his head to cause the elastic mercury of hope to\\ndescend the human thermometer to the zero point.\\nThen follows a deluge of information, dressed in\\nsuch language that the patient, comprehending abso\u00c2\u00ac\\nlutely nothing of what has been said, concludes that\\nhis case must be a very bad one indeed.\\nAlas for religion, pure religion! Religion that\\nonce burned brightly with purest flame upon the\\nprimitive hearthstone of life! Thy light has been\\nhidden by an unworthy priesthood, under the bushel\\nof creedal and dogmatic servitude. It will be the\\nwork of an intelligent laity, ridded of priestcraft, to\\nuncover its glorious light and place it again, tenderly\\nand reverently, upon the golden candlestick of Truth,", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "86\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nwhere it can be seen and felt by all men, and thus\\nanswer the demands of practical life.\\nThe social fabric of our civilization is also distin\u00c2\u00ac\\nguished for its ceremonial forms, empty pageants,\\nand its lack of sincerity and veracity. Social life is\\nso crowded with this cold, unfeeling, unnatural for\u00c2\u00ac\\nmalism, that sound common-sense is often offended\\nand feels itself compelled to step aside, and behold\\nthis hollow thing strut and stride before it.\\nThus this technical verbiage in law and philosophy,\\nthis dogmatic and creedal clutter in religion, this\\ncold formalism in social life, each serve to transport\\nits devotees into the clouds of unrealities, where they\\nflit about upon the wings of stilted dignity, blind\\nfaith, and social egotism, until, as with all who aspire\\nto a false height, their wings fail them, and they fall\\nto mundane levels.\\nThe real sphere of man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s action is just as wide as\\nhis interest in humanity, and it is not usually of the\\nphilosopher or scientist that complaint of a secret\\nhoarding of truth could be made, for his services can\u00c2\u00ac\\nnot receive too great a meed of praise from all who", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "LIFE S EXPRESSION.\\n87\\nare seeking knowledge. As Carlyle says, He has\\nto travel without highway, companionless, through\\nan inorganic chaos, and leaves his own life and faculty\\nlying there, as a partial contribution towards pushing\\nsome highway through.\u00e2\u0080\u009d He is not infrequently the\\ncompanion of poverty which teaches him many\\nsevere lessons, and he is ever filled with that courage\\nwhich can pray to\\nGive him a spirit that on life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s rough sea,\\nWould have his sails filled with a lusty wind,\\nEven until his sailyards tremble his masts crack\\nAnd his rapt ship runs on her sides so low\\nThat she drinks water, and her keel plows air.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nYet, after spending his life in digging from their\\nhidden places rare nuggets of golden truth, he often\\ncovers them again under a verbose pile of technicali\u00c2\u00ac\\nties, where it is almost as difficult to find them as\\nwhen they were originally discovered.\\nNever fear of robbing self by sharing all you may\\ngain of truth with others. Jesus taught openly in\\nthe temple to the multitude. If you have freely\\nreceived, freely give, and the recipient of your boun\u00c2\u00ac\\nties will render back new powers of energy and a", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "88\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\ngrander inspiration for renewed efforts in obtaining\\na larger truth, with mutual profit. \u00e2\u0080\u009cAs we have\\nopportunity,.let us do good unto all men.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Let each\\ncontribute whatever light and knowledge he has\\ngained to illuminate the darkness of other lives.\\nLooking, on one occasion, at what seemed to be a\\nrude and uncouth cross, in a panoramic exhibition of\\nPilgrim\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Progress, emotions were rather repelled\\nthan excited, and while wondering why such an exhi\u00c2\u00ac\\nbition should appear in the midst of so many beautiful\\npaintings, a light suddenly flashed upon it, a little\\nfilm of gauze was raised, and a sublime conception of\\nthe Cross appeared. What produced this magical\\nchange It was light the potent agency of light!\\nThen project the light of truth into the darkened\\nrecesses of life, and the revelation will be magical.\\nLift the veil of false covering from all acquired\\ntruth, and\\nLet the light\\nPour through fair windows, broad as Truth itself\\nAnd high as God.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThrow all possible light into the vibrating ocean of\\nlife\u00e2\u0080\u0099s expression. Every word uttered and every", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "LIFE S EXPRESSION. 89\\nthought excited produces a vibration in the atmos\u00c2\u00ac\\nphere, never entirely ceasing, leaving us still moving\\namong the inaudible words of our progenitors. The\\nvoices of Beecher, of Paine, Parker, and Phillips are\\nechoing still. There, is a sense in which every\\nuttered word lives forever. It lives to influence the\\nspeaker as well as that vast audience of a world\\nof listeners.\\nNature is like the sun, she is a storehouse of light,\\nand the light is there to be shed abroad. Nature is\\nlike the clouds, a storehouse of waters, to descend in\\nshowers of blessing. There is nothing in Nature but\\nwhat is meant to be distributed, and Nature and Man\\nare one. No one is enriched by reserving and hoard\u00c2\u00ac\\ning any mental, moral or spiritual attainment. If you\\nknow how to get wealth of any kind, tell the world\\nhow to get it; it will not detract from your oppor\u00c2\u00ac\\ntunity to get more, and a reluctance to impart such\\ninformation is at best leaving your methods open to\\nsuspicion, and relating you to selfishness.\\nTo enjoy the goal of Truth, its price must be placed\\nupon God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s great altar of human needs. If you have", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "90\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\ntraveled and beheld the fairest realms, climbed the\\nsummits of the Alps, or traversed valleys of pictu\u00c2\u00ac\\nresque beauty, project all this harvest of beautiful\\nresults into human life, and you will add to its varied\\nexpression a freshness, a vivacity, a force, an energy\\nand a power that will prove immortal.\\nThe earth of the past was conceived as a flat sur\u00c2\u00ac\\nface simply because ignorance declared it so. God\\nmade the earth and consequently it is of a spherical\\nform, and through his human agents, when they\\nwere developed to receive the same, he proclaimed\\nthis truth concerning it. This was a proclamation\\nof far more importance than the world could then\\ncomprehend. A different model or pattern for\\nthought was placed before mankind by this grand\\nrevelation. Prior to this revealment men and insti\u00c2\u00ac\\ntutions were like unto the shape of their earth\\nflat and angular. It is said that all expressions of\\narchitectural thought in the spirit world tend to the\\noval or circular.\\nWith this oval, symmetrical conception, the cubical\\nangularities of life began to be moulded into the", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "LIFE S EXPRESSION.\\n91\\nspherical beauty of man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s new conception of God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nthought. The Soul-man has since then come into\\nnearer conformity with God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s pattern. Man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s ability\\nof advancement, progression and utility is to be seen\\nin the symmetry of his mind. A young man once\\ndesiring to become a dentist, visited a gentleman of\\nthat profession for some advice as to his probable\\nability for future success in that line of work. The\\ndoctor simply presented the young man with a\\nsquare block of plaster and said, Carve out of that\\ncube the best shaped egg you can, after which I will\\nrender my judgment of your ability.\u00e2\u0080\u009d It was a most\\npractical test, the man of experience knowing the\\nresult of the aspirant\u00e2\u0080\u0099s efforts would be a type of his\\nsoul\u00e2\u0080\u0099s symmetry and unfoldment. The individual\\nadjustment to all other individuals is proportionate\\nto universal soul-symmetry. Perfect adjustment\\nupon the soul plane should be the goal of all striving.\\nMake the sphericity of self a chief aim, and then by\\nthe charm of which such a self-hood is capable,\\ncarefully and tenderly endeavor to round off and\\nsmooth the character of all other selves by projecting", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "92\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nthe truth which you have gained into a world of need.\\nYour soul will not realize its God-given birthright of\\nfreedom until every other soul is also free, as the\\nuniversal brotherhood of man is recognized as an\\nessential feature of the Fatherhood of God.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "RECEPTIVITY.\\n93\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nRECEPTIVITY.\\nT IUMANITY is related to none others than its\\nbest friends. Conditions which are the best\\nagencies for progress, at any given time, may not be\\nthe same which obtain for that end, at some subse\u00c2\u00ac\\nquent period. The careful observer can scarcely fail\\nto conclude that even the most unpleasant circum\u00c2\u00ac\\nstances, which gain admittance to life, linger no\\nlonger in one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s surroundings, than rebellion against\\nthem ceases, or until they are recognized as friends\\nin disguise, and their mission appropriated. All are\\never living in the midst of experiences, not one of\\nwhich occurs by chance, or is sent, save to teach\\nvaluable and necessary lessons.\\nThese seemingly unfriendly companions find cer\u00c2\u00ac\\ntain sharp corners of character, or disposition, which\\nthey alone can destroy, and as soon as their work has\\nbeen perfected, they beat a quick retreat to make", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "CUBES AND SPHERES.\\n94\\nroom for some other operative agency in the realm\\nof cause and effect. It is a mathematical certainty\\nthat two things cannot occupy the same place at the\\nsame time. Everything in Nature is an agency of\\ncausation and all natural agencies find a sequence\\nin effects, never ceasing to apply their energy until\\nthat result is established. As Nature is strictly\\neconomical in the use of her energy, no agent of\\ncause remains operative a moment after its work is\\nproperly done.\\nIt is not wise to conclude that all sorrow, pain and\\ndisease are the products of nature, for there are laws\\nalso operative which are very closely allied to the\\nrealm of perverted naturalism. It is not true that\\nall the ills of life are the product of divine wisdom,\\nor, as the theologian would affirm, \u00e2\u0080\u009csent by God\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\non the contrary, they are always the production of\\nhuman ignorance. Wisdom is the unrelenting enemy\\nof ignorance, and the moulding process of her laws,\\neven though severe, is always the voice of God.\\nPerverted naturalism will suffer infliction until\\ndestroyed by illumined Nature. Ignorance of health,", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "RECEPTIVITY.\\n95\\nor fear of disease, upon any plane of life, will be\\nvisited by wisdom, God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s agent, until illness is\\nrecognized as an unreality, therefore, having no\\npower. Welcome and receive this divine teacher\\nand render a willing and most studious obedience to\\nher counsels. Man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s life should be like the day,\\nmore beautiful in the evening; or like the Summer\\nwhich glows with promise of the coming Autumn,\\nwith its golden sheaves of harvest and fruitage.\\nIt is always best to receive all natural agencies\\nphilosophically, and with a soul-passivity, adjust\\nthem to our needs. If the seed could speak, it\\nmight raise an objection to being placed in the dark,\\ncold ground, and the farmer who placed it there\\nmight be considered its natural enemy. It might\\nprefer being placed in some dry, sunny place, but\\nwhat would be the relative results of the seeds thus\\ndealt with The one in the dark ground will germi\u00c2\u00ac\\nnate, and expand, until it bursts into the shining air,\\nand finally becomes productive of elements of nour\u00c2\u00ac\\nishment for human needs ;.the other adds nothing to\\nthe common good of life. If primitive, angular", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "9 6\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nhumanity had had no other experience than that of\\ndelight and pleasure, it would have remained cubical\\nand grotesque, and would never have contributed to\\nthe beautiful symmetry of God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s purposes.\\nThe shortsightedness of mankind in its novitiate\\nstate, is quite incapable of comprehending the ends\\nor finalities of divine purposes. The attention is so\\nclosely concentrated upon the consideration of means,\\nthat ends are often forgotten. What seems favor\u00c2\u00ac\\nable to present enjoyment is most acceptable to the\\naverage person, while a broader view would perhaps\\ndecide the same thing to be the worst of enemies.\\nThe boy cannot always understand the necessity of\\nbeing closely applied to study. Perchance he sees\\nanother boy who is not forced to such discipline, and\\nby this comparison chafes under the requirements of\\nschool life. In a few years, however, the results of\\nthese widely divergent means appear in the light of\\nconsequences. Reflection upon results, on the one\\nhand, always generates thankfulness for the disci\u00c2\u00ac\\npline received, and on the other, remorse for having\\nevaded it.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "RECEPTIVITY.\\n97\\nMankind, at whatever age of life, is in a school of\\ndiscipline, and he who is wise enough to appropriate\\nthe means, which are of divine appointment, will\\ngather sunshine from the retrospect and find himself\\nequipped with power, which experience has given, to\\ncope with all the duties of coming time. Learn to\\nutilize every stroke of nature, live in the confusion\\nand noise of life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s battles; lift with those who lift,\\nand receive upon your shoulders a fair share of life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nburdens. To repel these features is only to postpone\\nthe testing hour. Perform the present duties now,\\nand if, by so doing, you shall have merited a rest\\nto-morrow, it will doubtless be found that that rest\\nwill come in an activity which knows no jar, because\\nof a proper adjustment to every duty, through the\\nexperiences of the past. Idleness is not rest. Rest\\nconsists in a never-ceasing activity in doing good.\\nReceive and welcome such work as it is sent; train\\nthe brain and correspondingly the muscles, so that\\nall labor will become but a process of exhilaration.\\nGive every man thine ear, but few thy voice;\\nTake each man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s censure, but reserve thy judgment.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "gS CUBES AND SPHERES.\\nIt needs but a moment\u00e2\u0080\u0099s reflection to see the\\nwisdom of this Shakespearean advice. It will always\\nprove advantageous to be receptive to every expres\u00c2\u00ac\\nsion of thought. Receptivity to true thought, like\\nthe welcoming of experience, will construct before\\nthe thinking apparatus a sieve of intelligence, the\\nmeshes of which will, with unerring precision, sepa\u00c2\u00ac\\nrate the good from the bad, the valuable from the\\nworthless, and the wholesome from the unhealthy.\\nThe seemingly insignificant things of life fre\u00c2\u00ac\\nquently become most valuable teachers. It is a\\ntruth, even of giants, that \u00e2\u0080\u009ca little child shall lead\\nthem.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The apparently trite circumstance of the\\nfalling apple proclaimed a truth to the world of vast\\nimportance. Apples had been previously falling from\\nthe trees for centuries, but this particular apple not\\nonly fell to the ground, but at the same time fell\\ninto a receptive mind which utilized the phenomenon\\nfor the establishment of a universal law.\\nSpiders had been spinning their webs across man\u00c2\u00ac\\nkind\u00e2\u0080\u0099s pathway for thousands of years, and they had\\nbeen pushed away as a nuisance, but one of these webs", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "RECEPTIVITY. 99\\ncrossed the nose of Sir Samuel Brown, and from his\\nnose, sensitive nerves (conveyors of thought)\\nextended to the receptive brain with the result that\\nfrom that web was recognized the \u00e2\u0080\u009cSuspension\\nBridge.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Go to the ant, thou sluggard,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and receive\\ninstruction. All books, sermons, and even conversa\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions on the street corners may not be altogether\\ngood, but each of these will be very poor indeed if\\nthey contain no helpful thought.\\nOn the rocks of the seashore may be seen marine\\ncreatures living, when the tide is out, not in\\nthe pools it leaves, but on the dry and naked rocks,\\nand in the broiling sun. Twice a day the tide comes\\nin, when they open their shelly mouths and drink\\nenough to last them until its return. Can there be\\nany good reason for humanity to copy the methods\\nof these creatures Should the soul ever be closed,\\nor held in seclusion from God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s great ocean of wealth\\nThat soul will be the richest which follows the reced\u00c2\u00ac\\ning tide of circumstances and plunges into the deep\\nsea of life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s multitudinous phenomena. Sow beside\\nall waters secrete thy pearls from the deep recesses\\nl.ofC.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "IOO\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nof every experience, none of which can be spared by\\nthe receptive soul who craves realization of at-one-\\nment with God.\\nThe beautiful lily, tossing upon the crested waves,\\nis the embodiment of purity and sweetness, although\\nit gained its expression from the filth of its earthly\\nanchorage. That lily is the production of the thought\\nof God. He also is rearing something fairer, a beau\u00c2\u00ac\\ntiful temple of life, for His indwelling spirit. It is\\nrising from the confusion and dirt of mundane\\nexperiences, but as it is reared through the turbulent\\nwaters of vicissitudes, it will be purified and then\\nglorified.\\nWhite souls fall not, oh my poet,\\nThey rise to the fairest place.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nHumanity is naturally receptive. If the gates of\\nwrongly-directed energy are closed, and wider ave\u00c2\u00ac\\nnues opened, good thought, knowledge and power\\nwill more readily flow in. These qualities pour from\\na reservoir having limitless resources, and as inca\u00c2\u00ac\\npable of being exhausted as eternity is of having an\\nend. Let the soul be ever open to receive each les-", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "RECEPTIVITY.\\nIOI\\nson of wisdom from the Great Teacher, recognizing\\nonly the Good in every experience.\\nIt has been persistently impressed upon the mind\\nby certain teachers that all things of this world are\\nbut bubbles of vanity, and that the real, enduring\\nthings are reserved for the next sphere of conscious\u00c2\u00ac\\nness. It would not be in harmony with good judg\u00c2\u00ac\\nment to deny to much of this world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s wealth, a\\ntransitory nature. What the next world is, or what\\nit contains of either duty or pleasure, very little is\\nabsolutely known. It would seem to be in harmony\\nwith good reason to suppose that all things on this\\nplane of expression are for use, and that in their use\\nan experience will be gained which will be of incal\u00c2\u00ac\\nculable assistance in performing the duties of the\\nnext sphere of life. It is right to receive all of God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nbounties, and enrich the soul with the proper use of\\nall such possessions. Through a proper reception of\\nthe lessons which the things of this life teach, all the\\nwords and letters of the great book of Nature are\\ndaguerreotyped on the spirit; they are forever held\\nas priceless legacies upon the tablet of the soul, and\\nread as by a beam of light from the Central Sun.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "102\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nINDIVIDUAL EFFORT.\\nO ELFISHNESS is the language of the personal\\nman, and it is not until he outgrows the lower\\npersonality that his diviner self, that individuality\\nwhich is immortal, gains recognition and expression.\\nSelfishness is a cruel tyrant. It perpetuates\\nantagonisms in society, lends its approval to war,\\nsmiles upon the uneven conflict between the wealthy\\nclasses and the poverty-stricken masses, and renders\\nmore grievous the burdens of the toiling millions.\\nPersonal consideration sanctioned the cruel sin of\\nnegro slavery and now endorses a worse kind of serf\u00c2\u00ac\\ndom. It generates hypocrisy and cupidity, and casts\\na shadow of sadness and gloom upon a world whose\\nevery pulse-beat should throb with the warm tides of\\nuniversal, unselfish Love.\\nNo man is doing his best for society who is not\\nmaking the most of himself by developing and", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "INDIVID UAL EFFOR T. 103\\nunfolding the angel within. It is an obligation that\\nrests with every individual toward the establish\u00c2\u00ac\\nment of order and harmony on earth. Discordant\\nmelody will obtain until perfect harmony is appre\u00c2\u00ac\\nciated, and then local frets and jarring tones will not\\nbe noted in Evolution\u00e2\u0080\u0099s majestic pace, as man comes\\ninto perfect vibration with the throbbing of the\\nInfinite Heart.\\nThere is love enough in universal self-hood, mould\u00c2\u00ac\\nering under the rubbish pile of selfishness, to remove\\nfrom the world every barbaric relic of torture, con\u00c2\u00ac\\nvert every hovel into a house of decency and com\u00c2\u00ac\\nfort, transform all dens of infamy into homes of\\npurity, relieve humanity from its nightmare of fear,\\nremove all physical and moral diseases, subdue and\\ncontrol all passions, until the kingdom of heaven\\nshall dawn for the race while still embodied on earth.\\nThe acquirement of the highest unfoldment of the\\nindividual is enhanced when equal advantages and\\nequal power to utilize the same are possessed by all.\\nWhen a universal love is projected toward the\\ninterests of society, the possibility for all to live in", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "104\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nthe enjoyment of freedom and equality will be real\u00c2\u00ac\\nized. But too much time is wasted in waiting for\\nfavorable opportunities for individual effort, when\\noften the severe hardships, disappointments and\\ntrials best serve to evolve the true inner beauty and\\nvalue of the soul.\\nThey, it is said, who were clothed \u00e2\u0080\u009cin white\\nrobes were those who had come out of great tribu\u00c2\u00ac\\nlation, whose progress had fared, over the thistle-beds\\nof life, the experience of constant friction.\\nNature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s evolutionary unfoldment proceeds over\\nsimilar paths. Through cyclone, earthquake and\\ndevastating floods, expressions of beauty and fruitage\\nare finally reached. Each little atom performs its\\npart in shaping and moulding the perfect sphere.\\nLikewise individuals lose their sense of separateness,\\none from the other, in a community of interests for\\nthe advancement of the race. Each one then regards\\nits self-hood solely as an instrument to use and be\\nused for the universal good. Hence comes the\\nnecessity for exertion, the individual effort of every\\nsoul as co-worker with the Over-Soul, through Its", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "INDIVIDUAL EFFORT.\\n105\\nrevealment in Nature and in man. At this shrine,\\nno selfish desires can be heard or answered, since the\\npersonality is merged into the real self-hood, which it\\nis the purpose of life to evolve. Every human soul is\\na sculptor,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and all selfish desires and ambitions\\nmust feel the keen-edged chisel of this inexorable\\nartist.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe old world is effete; there man with man\\nJostles, and in the brawl for means to live,\\nLife is trod under foot, Life, the one block\\nOf marble that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s vouchsafed wherefrom to carve\\nOur great thoughts, white and Godlike, to shine down\\nThe future, Life, the irredeemable block,\\nWhich one o\u00e2\u0080\u0099erhasty chisel-dint oft mars,\\nScanting our room to cut the features out\\nOf our full hope, so forcing us to crown\\nWith a mean head the perfect limbs, or\\nLeave the God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s face glowing o\u00e2\u0080\u0099er a satyr\u00e2\u0080\u0099s trunk\\nFailure\u00e2\u0080\u0099s brief epitaph.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "io6\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nEVOLUTION AND INVOLUTION.\\nINVOLUTION has never been properly defined,\\nbecause no definition has as yet comprehended\\nit altogether; and what involution is in its truest,\\nbroadest sense, no man has adequately discerned. A\\ndefinition serves only the purpose of the yardstick\\nin measuring a web of cloth; it is the yardstick of\\nthe mind, gauges the capacity of mental faculties, or\\nof man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s ability to comprehend. Evolution accom\u00c2\u00ac\\nmodates its pace to the operation of natural law, and\\nman has no very definite idea of the extent of\\nnatural law, so all-comprehensive is it, in its grand\\nunfoldment, since finite minds cannot grasp the\\nmethods of the Infinite.\\nThe word \u00e2\u0080\u009crevolve\u00e2\u0080\u009d always conveys the idea of some^\\nthing turning round like a wheel, or planet. Elimi\u00c2\u00ac\\nnate the r from the word, and evolve is gained,\\nwhich is the same word with its root changed. The", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "EVOLUTION AND INVOLUTION ioj\\nsame idea is conveyed of something round, spherical,\\nnot necessarily turning on its axis, but of some\u00c2\u00ac\\nthing round being ejected, poured forth, as a man\\nwould pour out a barrel of apples, the little spheres\\nrolling gracefully into some other receptacle. It is\\nthe destiny of evolution to reveal to all mankind the\\nsphericity of Life, to show forth the beauty and\\nsymmetry that is possible, and in that revealment to\\nawaken the knowledge of human angularities out of\\nwhich growth must obtain, to enlarge progressive\\nminds with a power to give knowledge to others\\nfrom out themselves, by flashing back the light of\\nrevealment upon the path already trod.\\nInvolution very easily expresses the reverse of\\nevolution, but is the opposite of evolution only in\\nmode of expression its process being peculiarly the\\nsame, as in the example of the man pouring out\\napples which are evolving from the barrel, while the\\nnew receptacle is involving that which was evolved.\\nEvolution and involution are but systematic modes\\nof expression. These processes are eternal, having\\nhad no beginning and are to have no ending", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "io8\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nInvolved in human life are the principles of creation,\\nthe power of evolving; this being the product of the\\nfact that Somebody, or Something, somewhere\\nevolved this possibility into man, who received the\\ninvolution of that which was evolved. The primal\\ntruth of evolution proclaims that the Source from\\nwhich all receive this involved potency is God, the\\nFountain Head of all things God, not as a person\u00c2\u00ac\\nality, but as a contraction of the word Good. Inten\u00c2\u00ac\\nsify its meaning, and Omnipotent Good, as a deific\\nprinciple, becomes God, the great Fountain Head,\\nthe Some Thing, that is, the Sum total of all things,\\nthe Totality of everything. This is what we mean\\nby God. Man is the result of evolutionary laws, for\\nevolution is but an expression of natural law,\\noperative. All Nature and man are but instruments,\\nkeeping time to the inexorable rhythm of God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s baton.\\nFrom the great Infinite Heart of all Truth, Life\\nand Goodness, there has been involved in every\\nhuman being, almost infinite possibilities; no matter\\nhow low he may be, the gradual process of divine\\nunfoldment must go on toward a potency in quality,", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "EVOLUTION AND INVOLUTION\\n109\\nof God, the Divine Perfection. The Infinite Heart\\nbeats and throbs with the physical heart-beat of every\\nchild of earth. This constant outbreaking in involu\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, is ever teaching in many ways the purpose\\nof this present expression of conscious life, which\\nis one in principle and essence with the Godhood\\ninvolved therein.\\nThe question might be asked, \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhat is the reason\\nfor this process a query which can only be par\u00c2\u00ac\\ntially answered. God is considered as Perfection,\\nyet is no more so than man is, in a certain sense.\\nWhat is more perfect than a young babe Look\\nupon its eyes, its sweet mouth, each curve and soft\\noutline of the little form, pure and delicate as a\\nsnowdrop fallen from the gardens of the angels into\\nthe mother\u00e2\u0080\u0099s lap. Nothing ever gains expression in\\nthe universe more divine than the little child, and\\nyet with all its grace and beauty of attributes, it is\\nperfect only as a child. It must expand and unfold\\nthrough long days of external life into a riper man\u00c2\u00ac\\nhood or womanhood, must be perfected through the\\ndevelopment of evolutionary laws.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "I IO\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nOn the vegetable plane the same law silently holds\\nsway, and every plant or weed conforms itself invari\u00c2\u00ac\\nably to the aim of that law which compels it to grow.\\nIn the silent unfolding of that beautiful sisterhood of\\nthe floral kingdom, no fault-finding or grumbling is\\never heard during the process of evolution nothing\\nis discerned but an earnest endeavor to make the\\nworld more desirable, both to soul and sense, by its\\nexpression. This kingdom seems to evolve especially\\nfor the sweetening of all other life which is capable of\\nappreciating it. This emphasizes a fact regarding\\nindividual life, viz.: that every man is capable of\\ninvolving into some one else that which he holds of\\nprinciple, essence, or wisdom. This is a part of the\\nprocess of involution; it endows the thing involved\\nwith the capacity of evolving as well.\\nIt will be a bright day for the world when human\u00c2\u00ac\\nity learns that it is not made up of isolated indi\u00c2\u00ac\\nviduals, but is one vast solidarity, the united family\\nof God. God is working out the process of life with\\nevery one, and this evolutionary unfolding is going\\non, higher and better continually, throughout all", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "EVOLUTION AND INVOLUTION\\nI I I\\neternity. All life is activity and must bring out the\\ninvolved principles of Life, according to the chart of\\nGod\u00e2\u0080\u0099s divine purposes. When this involved principle\\nof one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s life pervades the character, it helps others to\\njoin the great procession of evolution.\\nThat which is involved is the godhood in man, a\\npossession of his from eternity. God is All. You\\nabide in Him and He in you, your Father which art\\nin Heaven \u00e2\u0080\u0094that kingdom within. Life is given for\\nthe holy process of perfecting self-hood in growth, as\\nthe child is perfected in its maturity. Humanity is\\nlike God only in quality, not as perfect as He is in\\nquantity, but the quantity of conscious nearness to\\ndivine attributes will increase just as fast as one cul\u00c2\u00ac\\ntivates the Godlike talent that has been given, by\\njoining God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s bank of interest.\\nAll souls throughout the universal spheres are\\nliving the same life with humanity, the same life\\nwith God, consequently they are, in a certain sense,\\nGod. In the final analysis, this truth will reveal itself\\nto every logical thinker, that he is not only living a\\nlife with God, but is living the life of God.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "I 12\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nAnd ever and forever as the ages roll, the great\\nocean of Life will throb and pulsate with God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Love.\\nIt will beat against the headlands and granite cliffs\\nof ignorance until they crumble and melt away, and\\nover these ruined bulwarks the billows of Truth will\\nsweep on and on, bearing upon their mighty crests,\\nthe ark of safety in which every expression of human\\nlife will float onward, and the involved is borne back\\ninto the Infinite Heart of God, from which it was\\nprimarily evolved.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "PROGRESS/ON.\\n113\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nPROGRESSION.\\nS in every other department of Nature, law\\ntakes cognizance also of progression, and gives\\napparent attention to every little detail pertaining to\\nthe modes of progression. Even those people who\\nare not inclined to improve the opportunities which\\nare thrown about them are still never neglected by\\nthis immutable law of God. Everybody is progress\u00c2\u00ac\\ning they have to advance; they cannot help it, and\\nofttimes a person may be progressing very rapidly\\nindeed, when to all external appearances he is not\\nprogressing at all.\\nThe egg-shell does not appear very different five\\nminutes before the little chicken sticks its bill through\\nit, in its effort to gain expression, than it did two or\\nthree weeks prior to this event, and yet within this\\nlittle sphere, the process of life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s unfoldment is con\u00c2\u00ac\\nstantly going on till the climax comes, the shell is", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "CUBES AND SPHERES.\\nI 14\\nbroken, and while development from this moment is\\nmore apparent, it is nevertheless no more pronounced\\nor rapid than while in the invisible state of embryo.\\nThe standard by which mankind judges of the\\nprogress or of the quality of any soul is through the\\npower of soul discernment. But, while many people\\nhave made a wonderful progress which is observed\\nand understood, that progress which has been made,\\nwhich humanity fails to see and understand, is infi\u00c2\u00ac\\nnitely more marvellous and wonderful than that which\\nhas been observed. The goodness, or lack of it, in a\\nfriend will be depicted in the light of the observer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nsoul-perception of the true value of man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s character.\\nIf these observations are not expressed in words, they\\nexcite a thought-current, which goes out into the\\nworld as a living power, revealing the important fact\\nthat even the character of a thought should be well\\ngrounded and established upon the basic rock of truth\\nin soul consciousness.\\nAll features of divine law are beautiful, but per\u00c2\u00ac\\nhaps one of the most delightful attributes of the law\\nunder consideration is that it compels progression.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "PROGRESSION.\\nI 15\\nProgression is one of its first duties toward humanity.\\nIt is a question, indeed, if much progress had been\\nmade by mankind, had it not been for this exacting,\\ninexorable law of Nature that reaches out its strong\\narm and places its hand on the shoulder of the indo\u00c2\u00ac\\nlent, as the policeman places his hand on the rec\u00c2\u00ac\\nreant citizen, who for the time is an uncivilized\\nbeing. So this divine law, like the policeman, takes\\nhold of the ignorant and unprogressive natures and\\nleads, drags, and forces them on, until it brings them\\nto that point where they begin to feel the need of\\nco-operating themselves with the law.\\nLaw seems to many a hard taskmaster. It is, or\\nis not, according to the development of the individ\u00c2\u00ac\\nual. What matters it to some that a law exists pro\u00c2\u00ac\\nhibiting a man to steal They are not in the least\\naffected by that law; and yet there are people cog\u00c2\u00ac\\nnizant of this law, through its. seeming tyranny in\\nits relation to them, because it runs against the\\nnatural, ^natural proclivities of the man who wants\\nto steal without incurring any penalty.\\nBecause the carnal mind is enmity against God,\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "CUBES AND SPHERES.\\n11 6\\nthe natural man is not, for he, the natural man, is\\nsubject to the Divine Will. The natural mind of\\nman is good, and every natural act of man is good.\\nWhen he commits an error he is giving expression\\nto a perverted naturalness, which is another term for\\nignorance. Perverted naturalism must evolve into\\nthe natural. It is natural for man to progress and\\nadvance he is a natural conqueror, a natural grower.\\nMan, the real ego, or self-hood, while residing in that\\nexpression known as the human, is ofttimes very\\nnearly dormant, or dead, until the self, or real man\u00c2\u00ac\\nhood, is recognized by the man himself, until he him\u00c2\u00ac\\nself has had an introduction to himself. It may not\\nseem natural for him to progress, but the law com\u00c2\u00ac\\npels him to, until he personally lends his aid to that\\nlaw which evermore demands progression.\\nIt is well for us to consider by what means we, as\\nindividuals, can make the best progress, A wrong\\ncourse means a weary retracing of steps, beginning\\nthe journey over again. There is a great diversity\\nof opportunities vouchsafed to man, and as a crown\u00c2\u00ac\\ning feature, the brain was given to establish him as", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "PROGRESSION.\\nii 7\\nan arbiter. A great many people think they are\\nprogressive, simply .because they are successful in\\ncertain very limited directions, who when awakened,\\nwill discover that their lives are largely failures. It\\nis necessary, therefore, that the spiritual as well as\\nthe mental judgment should be carefully exercised so\\nas to correctly realize what true progress is. The\\nvalue of any one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s progress might be questioned who\\nhas left undone even a single day\u00e2\u0080\u0099s work.\\nMan is weaving a web, and each day the click of\\nthe shuttle, with lightning speed, sends its thread\\nthrough the web. If, through neglect some day, the\\nshuttle fails to perform its duty, the thread is left\\nout and a tedious, unravelling process is necessary to\\ncorrect that error, for the web must be perfect. Be\\nye perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThis seems to many a task that would be absolutely\\nimpossible to fulfil, and so it is; you cannot be per\u00c2\u00ac\\nfect now, but in quality you are just as perfect as\\nyour Father in heaven is perfect. You can never be\\nin extent, until every duty of life is perfectly fulfilled.\\nThen send the shuttle through the web every", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "118\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nday, and make the design perfect as you go along.\\nThe grandeur and beauty of God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s process is seen\\nin this fact, that He has taken down all barriers and\\nlimitations of time, and given to man Eternity, in\\nwhich to unfold and perfect himself.\\nThere is a progression beyond this plane, far supe\u00c2\u00ac\\nrior to look upon, than that which is possible here in\\nthe mundane sphere. But frequently people pass\\ninto that fairer spirit world, who have left their life\\nwebs very imperfect, with many opportunities\\nneglected. The web is therefore a very sorry specta\u00c2\u00ac\\ncle. How, then, get back to the dropped thread\\nHow retrace that intricate pattern The law of\\nprogress has also kindly provided for such sad needs\\nas these. Yet, progress in spirit life is utterly\\nimpossible until the duties of this world have been\\nattended to. Forgiveness of this error, if indeed for\u00c2\u00ac\\ngiveness is ever extended to the man of errors, does\\nnot repair a single flaw. Forgiveness of sin is one\\nthing, annulling its consequences, quite another. No\\none has power to forgive sin save God alone, and\\nthough He forgives error a thousand times, He has", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "PROGRESSION.\\nI 19\\nestablished a natural law that declares thou shalt pay\\nthe penalty to the \u00e2\u0080\u009cuttermost farthing.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThat person who, with the step of an elastic con\u00c2\u00ac\\nscience, slips gracefully along the pathway of life,\\nwill find his journey out there in the world of souls\\nnot very delightful, for, as a spirit, he will find him\u00c2\u00ac\\nself obliged to take up old conditions, which he\\ncarelessly glided over, and painfully correct them.\\nHeaven abhors a sloven, and will not permit of a\\nslovenly job. One must be a man indeed to travel\\nthe highway of progress in the spirit world.\\nProgress means activity here on earth it is the\\nwatchword of life in the World Eternal. There are\\nbut three possible positions for mankind, viz. retro\u00c2\u00ac\\ngression, balance, and progression. The most unnat\u00c2\u00ac\\nural is the first, the most difficult and almost\\nimpossible, the second, while the only really natural\\nis the latter process. Progression is one with\\nactivity,\u00e2\u0080\u0094it always has been and always will be.\\nThere are two ways of getting out of the world of\\nhuman consciousness, \u00e2\u0080\u0094to wear out, and to rust out.\\nIt will take longer to wear out than to rust out, for\\nthe law of atrophy is a cruel tyrant.", "height": "3366", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "cubesspheresinhu00wigg_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "120\\nCUBES AND SPHERES.\\nThe tyranny of atrophy and decay holds no\\ndominion or power over that aspiring life, which,\\nthrough earnest, well-directed effort, squares all con\u00c2\u00ac\\nduct of life with the operations of natural law.\\nThen work, work, WORK, yes, work every day and\\nevery night. All toilers will be the better for it, but\\nshould be careful in the selection of their kind of\\nwork. The world is brighter and better to-day because\\nof what has been done by every loyal, tireless soul\\nsince yesterday.\\nEternal progress Thank God for that hour when\\nthe truth of eternal progression was revealed to the\\nworld, a growth which is unending, for however far\\none may advance, however high he may mount the\\nladder of progress, he will never reach the topmost\\nround, for God covers the whole of it. 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