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Cornell University Library arV13710 Evolution of the human soul and the futu 3 1924 031 259 843 olin.anx The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924031259843 Evolution of the Human Soul and the FUTURE UFE SCIEN- TIFICALLY Demonstrated. The soul is a product of nature. The organ and center of the soul is the spinal cord. The soul is individualized; it is indestructible; it will live forever; it cannot cease to exist. Evolution of all nature is immu- table Laws. DR. N. C. ANDERSEN. ANDERSEN PUBLISHING CO. 379 IGLEHART STREET, ST. PAUL. MINN. ~D Entered According to Act of Congress in the year i906 BY N. C. ANDERSEN IH THE Office of the Librarian of Congress Washington TO THE READER. I wish to impress on the mind of the reader to read the preface first. You will have a better understanding of the book itself and should you find something where our opinions dififer you will be more able to criticise intel- ligently. This volume is written for thinking people. It might have been increased to thrice its present size and then there would have been material to spare. But I have condensed it to suit this busy age, where economy of time is of great importance to the reader. Civilization is the child of free thought. The time is near at hand when all people will allow each other to do their own thinking. We have been taught that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects that we must never express our opinion. I believe in liberty of thought ; say what you think. We would have a grander world if we were taught to express our honest opinion. We live in an age where the great majority are thinking people. In ages gone by thinking and reasoning was a nonentity to the mass of people. But now people prefer to do their own thinking and if we can awaken thought- less people to the luxury of thinking and to break all bonds and think freely and fearlessly for themselves and not depend on anybody else to do their thinking and reasoning for them, then our object is not in vain. PREFACE. There has been and are two great tendencies in human thought and action as to the future life, one does think, say and act with reference to facts and the other with reference to hope. One type will not accept any belief unless it can base it upon present facts, verificable human experience, and concentrates its attention upon nature, the sensible physical world, which always seems clear and intelligible to it. The other centers its attention upon supernature, a nonsensible reality, a world of hopes and aspirations. Philosophy is helpless and worthless for prov- ing a future life, it must be determined scientifically by the facts which show what it actually does, not by what we can imagine to be possible. I have appealed to science in the sense that it would be unfair for me to claim sup- port from that which science m her strictness can set aside as the tradition of a prescientific age. Science must have no personal preference one way or the other. The law of evolution of the soul is not limited to ac- tion on the physical world alone. It does not cease to operate with the attainment of physical perfection, for man is primarily a spiritual being and only transiently an inhabitant of the physical world. That science will yet prove immortality by its facts is a certainty almost on the eve of fulfillment. What is the origin of life on this planet? We must go back to the very beginning of the earth's existence and trace the fact that life and mind were acquired by in- heritance from an omniscient being. The theory promul- gated by Darwin is that the organic world owed its ani- mation and quickening to progressive development. The theory disproves the prevailing theological dogma of special miraculous creation of species. On the part of the materialistic scientists this idea consisted in the as- sumption that by disproving the doctrine of special cre- ation they had eliminated God from the universe. It is to expose these errors that this book was written and to show that evolution is susceptible of no other than a theistic interpretation. The fact of organic and mental evolution points to a divine origin of mind and life on this earth. The soul of man is a self-existent entity, and an important, indeed indispensable, part of the universal spirit, and it will live forever in an individual form to eradicate superstition, to demonstrate the only true and living God, the universal spirit, the God within our- selves, the immortal soul. This is the object of our work. The evolution of the human soul is just as real as the evolution of the body. From the structure of the organ- ism of man, his physical, intellectual and psychical, can science only solve the problem of the soul of man and a future life. Evolution is a philosophical science applica- ble to all phenomena whether physical, mental or psychi- cal, whether manifested by material atoms or dynamic energy of the soul. The study of nature is to free men's minds from de- lusions as to the supernatural. Superstition is and always has been a stumbling block in the path of human progress. The so-called miracles are now understood to be natural phenomena and can be reproduced by the law of sugges- tion. If I have succeeded in my chief aims I shall feel amply repaid for the labor involved. It cannot be final, for as long as activity prevails in any branch of science all results are provisional. Increasing knowledge leads necessarily to a change of perspective and to a readjust- ment of views. I am not seeking to support or to under- mine anything. I am seeking for the truth as the only sacred thing on earth. N. C. A. CONTENTS I. In the Beginning — A Backward Glance. II. Immutable Laws of Nature. III. Man Has Two Minds. IV. Hypnotism and Its Cognate Phenomena. V. Religious Frenzy. VI. Miracles. VII. Suspended Animation. VIII. Healing by Suggestion and Telepathy. IX. Dynamic Power and Attributes of the Soul. X. Pre-existence Transmigration. XI. Ancient Philosophy. XII. Evolutionary Aspect of Reincarnation. XIII. Esoteric Science. XIV. Atonement. XV. Altruism. XVI. Immortality of the Soul. XVII. Bibliolatry. XVIII. Priestcraft and Kingcraft in All Ages. XIX. How to Live the Natural Age of Man. XX. Psychometry. XXI. The Unconscious Mind in Education. XXII. Scientific Discovery of the Universal Spirit. XXIII. In Union with the Universal Spirit God. CHAPTER I. In The Begiiming— A Backward Glance. I. EVOLUTION OF ALL NATURE. The earth had no beginning, that is to say, the ele- ments of which the earth is composed had no beginning, a theory tenable compared with the one that it — some- thing — was created from nothing. 2. THE EARTH. The earth is either a child of the sun or else a separate creation of the Nebula of which the sun is the central and controlling figure. 3. THE SUN. The sun and accompanying planet, comet and other bodies which constitute what is known as the Solar Sys- tem was once a Nebula, a mass of star mist or gas mov- ing clay in the vastness of space as the summer cloud drifts in our earth's atmosphere, both in obedience to immutable laws. 4. THE UNIVERSE. Out in the boundless universe which stretches away in every direction from our earth the telescope detects many other nebula, each the beginning of a solar sys- tem. The central suns of systems already organized are seen by thousands, and photography reveals thou- sands more that lie beyond telescopic vision. 10 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 5. THE STARS. The Stars that stud the midnight sky are suns, each the center of a solar system, and each shining with its own light; the only other bodies seen in our sky being the planets and moons of our solar system. The fami- lies of the other suns are not visible to us, and it is reasonable to assume that the dark or invisible inhabi- tants of the star-lit spaces are countless beyond human calculation, numberless beyond the light bodies. 6. THE SOLAR SYSTEM. So, too, when considering the size of our solar sys- tem, does the mind fail of comprehension. Beyond the orbit of Neptune is Victoria, a planet not yet seen by man, distant three thousand, five hundred million miles from the sun. Nearer the sun than Mercury is Vulcan, so near that it is seldom seen in the blazing light of our central luminary. Doubling the distance to Victoria marks the diameter of our solar system, seven thousand million miles ; a sum easy to understand when compared to the distance to the nearest sun beyond the orbit of our outermost planet. Then figures run out to mean- ingless length. 7. THE NEBULA. As there was no beginning to matter so there is no time in the eternity of space. The nebula assembles and suns are created to shine and grow dark and go back into cloud again, and again to condense into suns. Our suns and its planets, of which the earth is a minor mem- ber, will live a brief day in their present forms and in final conflagration expand again into nebula or a cloud EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 11 of gas, and exist a brief night, by turn the day and night of solar life. 8. CHANGES EVOLUTION. These changes — evolution — are in accordance with law. There is no disorder in the great plans of the universe, all is order and law. There are mighty convulsions in world making, massive operations of the creative forces, that are unfathomable as they are bewildering to man — feeble as a mote dancing in a beam of sunlight — when personally considered with planetary phenomena. 9. A POWERFUL SPIRIT. The age of the earth is mere guess work. As to the number of original elements — out of which by various combinations the myriad forms of rock, metal, plant and animal have been organized — opinions differ. We know, however, that pervading all things is a sub- tle and powerful spirit, which, perhaps for a better name, we call Ether, and as Electricity comes from Ether, this substance makes a magnet of each object, the man, the tree, the bit of metal. ID. NEW DISCOVERIES. Psychical researches and scientific experiments are re- vealing powers of nature — vibrations of the luminifer- ous ether — which convey that force we call thought from mind to mind without the intervention of the cells of the brain. The human eye cannot see beyond a certain number of vibrations per second and the human ear is likewise limited. Therefore all life in a higher state of vibrations than this is invisible and inaudible. The new discoveries of science throw a high illumination on 12 EVOLUTION OF THE H UMAN SOUL Psychic truth. The phenomena of the X-ray — the Roent- gen ray — directed to the human body reveals the bones. It is now found that electricity can be introduced with the effect of making the entire body transparent. II. SCIENTIFIC INSTINCT. Scientific instinct — so newly developed in mankind — has made familiar for the problem of the origin of man are now seeking for the problems of the future life to examine into his destiny and accept the lesson of evolu- tion, namely, that progress in the law of cosmos. As nature intends to preserve personality quite as fully as it does matter and energy it will discover a perfect con- formity between its ethical ideals and the cosmic order. These ideals whose moral value man estimates above mere material existence will serve as evidence that nature will protect the survival of the personal, the unconscious mind, the soul after bodily death. 12. man's duality. Man is a duality consisting of an organized spiritual form, evolved coincidently with and permeating the physical body, and having corresponding organs and de- velopments. Death is the separation of this duality, and effects no change in the spirit, morally or intellectually. 13. progressive evolution. Progressive evolution of the intellectual and moral nature is the destiny of individuals: the knowledge, at- tainments, and experiences of earth life forming the basis of spirit life. CHAPTER II. Immntable Laws of Nature. 14. MANIFESTATION OF LIFE. The earth is a magnet — an electro-chemical laboratory — from which is developed and maintained every order of life. Life is an aggregation of electro-magnetic phenomena. The fact is that all manifestations of life, animal and vegetable, are the product of electro-magnetic power, there can be no electrical phenomena which do not involve positive and negative action. The head and right side of the body are positive, while the feet and the left side of the body are negative. 15. VITAL POWER. The circulation of the blood is not only subordinate to, but is carried on through the direct agency of the elec- tro-nervo-vital power of the system. The circulation is equal where and so long as the electro-vital powers are in equilibrium, and unequal whenever they are unbalanced, or when either power preponderates over the other. Whenever the electro-positive power of the system pre- dominates we have an augmented circulation. If the electro-negative power predominates we have a corre- sponding diminished circulation. Each of the vital powers above named are equally essential to a healthy existence, which fails at once when either gain the entire ascendency. 14 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 1 6. NERVE CENTER. It is this electro-nerve influence, or nerve fluid, which endows the body with vitality — with life that causes the brain to think, the heart to beat, the blood to circulate, the lungs to expand, the ears to hear, the eyes to see, the nose to smell, the whole body to feel, the stomach to digest and absorb, the kidneys, liver and bowels to act and purify the system. Each portion of the body is under control of a nerve center located in the brain and spinal cord. These nerve centers bear the same re- lation to the various parts of the body that the battery and switch-board do in operating the telegraph or tele- phone. When the batteries are out of order the latter works imperfectly or not at all. The same relations exist between the nerves and the nerve centers. The electro-positive and negative properties of the nerve in- fluence when not in harmony are either detrimental or fatal to the animated being. Without the electric nerve power in operation the body becomes a mass of lifeless matter. The action of these powers in their relation to inanimate matter represents the perfection of wisdom and infinite power of Deity, of whom it is written : "All His work is done in Truth." 17. A SPIRITUAL SUBSTANCE. In electricity has been discovered a thought, and that thought is not a material substance, it is a spiritual sub- stance. As electricity pervades the whole universe, that thought must be intelligence, intellectual energy. It is omnipresence, it is omniscience, it is omnipotence. If EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 15 vital energy and spiritual energy are two distinct powers it must be coexistent with each other. l8. EDISON. Edison tells us, "It is probable that there are rays of vibration set in motion from some unknown source, and that these rays make their presence known by their ac- tion in causing radium to emit or reflect light and heat, that is, that radium is heated and lighted by some sun vastly more subtle and potent than is the sun of our solar system. The X-rays and radium, it is quite likely, are only at the threshold of a far finer and more potent universe of substances." 19. THE HUMAN BODY. The human body is coarse, made up of slow, sluggish vibrations, but were these vibrations as rapid as those of the X-rays our bodies would be invisible and pass through many solids, and were they as rapid as radium they would pass through all solids, as Christ's resurrected body or spirit passed through the walls of the chamber of Jerusalem. Scientists will soon make the miracles of Christ elementary. Already they are changing their at- titude toward what has been regarded as supernatural. And in its place apply the true laws of nature. 20. THE INVISIBLE RAYS. Our conscious mind, as compared with the unconscious mind, has been likened to the visible spectrum of the sun's rays, as compared to the invisible part which stretches 16 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL indefinitely on either side. We know now that the chief part of heat comes from the ultra-red rays that show no light ; and the main part of the chemical changes in the vegetable world are the results of the ultra-violet rays on the other end of the spectrum, which are equally invisible to the eye, and are only recognized by their potent effects. Indeed, as these invisible rays extend indefinitely on both sides of the visible spectrum, so we may say that the mind includes not only the visible or conscious part and the subconscious, that lies below or at the red end, but the supraconscious mind that lies beyond at the other end — all those regions of higher soul and spirit life, of which we are only at times vaguely conscious, but which always exist, and link us on to eternal verities on the one side, as surely as the subconscious mind links us to the body on the other. 21. THE MIND. The mind indeed reaches all the way, and we may call the supraconscious mind the sphere of the spirit life, the subconscious the sphere of the body life, and the conscious mind the middle region where both meet. 22. SIR RAMSEY AND SIR LODGE. Sir William Ramsey and Sir Oliver Lodge have justi- fied the supposition that the atoms or ultimate constituent of all matter is composed of electricity or in some way a modification of electrical energy. There is everything in the scientific account of either to suggest the attributes of omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL H 23. MATERIALISTIC SCIENTISTS. Scientists are swinging away from materialism of a generation ago. They tell us now there must have been an intelligent Creator. Is He dead? If not, where is He? If alive, it is the most natural thing to suppose that He is here with His work. Then it follows that the mightiest force of the universe, that real force, is outside of our physical senses; and it also follows that scientists should most carefully consider this mightiest of forces and the possibility of sensitive human beings through which this force works. We must never forget that there are intelligences behind these hypnotic phenom- ena in trance or in sleep or any other time whenever the objective mind is inhibited. 24. INTELLIGENCES. What are these intelligences? Are they creations of the subjective mind? If so, that mind should be ex- plored, its laws of development discovered, or are these intelligences from the beyond? 25. PSYCHOLOGY. Psychology is the most interesting of all sciences. The first establishment of the fact that mental phenomena belong to the unconscious mind with regard to hypno- tism and the increasing range of the so-called spirit manifestations — forces that no psychologist now ventures to ignore. That all the study and thought expended upon it down to the beginning of our own age is almost worth- less and when the whole mind is recognized, when its powers are studied and its laws ascertained it will raise it to a true science. 18 EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL 26. A PSYCHIC FORCE. Their basis of operation is nothing more or less than the unconscious mind, and whatever marvels lie in their operations are due to the power of exciting to action this hidden psychic force in the abeyance of consciousness; for if there be one fact above all others, that is essential in all true manifestations, it is that consciousness is dor- mant in the hypnotic state. Whether it be the produc- tion of a blister from a piece of clean paper or the curing of some functional disease, both are effected by an agency which has power over body forces and sensations of which in ordinary life we are wholly unconscious, and it is undoubtedly a psychic force; therefore it is proved that when active in hypnotism, in ordinary sleep, it can be nothing more or less than unconscious mind. 27. THE TWO NATURES. The indwelling of the spirit or soul, and even of the subconscience, are not directly realized within the sphere of the objective mind. The basis of ethics and all morality lies in a voice and judgment that speaks to us from the unknown within, however much its tones and words may be modified by circumstances and teaching derived from consciousness. The value therefore of es- tablishing the fact of the unconscious mind here, is immense, giving at once the key to all, and showing where our highest spirit life and our moral sense dwells and whence proceeds the voice of conscience, of soul and of God. The unconscious mind is equally the home of the highest spirit life as of the directing power of the lowest body functions. Surely this is the key to the EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 19 unconscious mind in us, to the doctrine of the two na- tures, to the struggles that we often experience in the conflict between the good and evil within. When the scope of the psychic in us is fully recognized it will throw great light on the foundations of ethics and hu- manity in the soul. 28. A UNIVERSAL MEDIUM. The term ether has been in use for thousands of years to express the idea of something more rare, tenuous or refined than ordinary matter. What are the fundamental properties of this ether? We must direct all attention to some electrical effects. It has been shown that most of the electrical phenomena, like those of optics, point to the necessity for the assumption of a similar universal medium, differing from ordinary matter. Abundant proof has been gathered in that the electro-magnetic medium and the luminiferous ether are one and the same. 29. ETHER. This ether fills every so-called vacuum, and we cannot pump it out from any vessel. We cannot remove it from any enclosed place because it passes easily through all material solid bodies, and it is for the same reason in- tangible and it is not possessed of weight. We cannot touch it, smell it, see it, taste it. It occupies a rank in the hierarchy of created things which places it above the materials we can see and touch. 30. RAYS. Light and electric-radiation are identical in nature, and both in waves propagated through the space-filling 20 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL ether, the difference between is in wave-length and wave- amplitude. Four groups of ether waves are now known : Luminous, or light rays, Electric, or Hertz rays, Ultra-red, or dark-heat rays. Actinic, or photographic rays. And these various rays are the same in nature and consist of waves propagated through the ether with the velocity of i86,5(X) miles per second, and some of the known vibrations in ether are from i,ooo to 2,000 billions per second. As we have convincing proof telepathy is a fact, and as we have no way of knowing the velocity and the vibrations per second may we not suppose that it travels through the ocean of ether with the same velocity as the other rays? 31. ELECTRONS. What is the nature of electricity and ether? It seems possible we may obtain some clue to an answer to the first question, and find it in a study of the electrons, or tiny corpuscles which build up atoms. Concerning the structure of ether, physical investigation, which has re- vealed its existence, may be able to analyze more deeply its operations. 32. WAVE ACTION. Electricity appears to act in a vibratory motion in the ultimate molecules of bodies. The phenomena of elec- tric wave actions are excitation, attraction, repulsion, transference, induction and magnetic effects. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 21 33. INVISIBLE RADIATION. Scientists do not consider ether as matter as it is not affected by gravity, nor does it offer any resistance to a body moving in it. Stresses of various kinds may be set up in it, sometimes in straight Unes, sometimes in curved lines. Light and heat are electrical waves. When we feel the warmth of the sun it is the same thing as light, it is called heat, but it is invisible radiation. We have come to the conclusion that light and heat are electrical waves. 34. MAGNETISM. When a current of electricity moves from one point to another we have a manifestation called "magnetism." The theory of magnetism is that every molecule of a magnet has a minute current of electricity circulating around it. An aggregation of the molecules with their currents is the production of a compact body with a cur- rent circulating outside of it (the magnet). Starting at the north pole, this current travels around the great magnet, the earth, in a direction opposite to the one starting at the south pole. There is no energy expended in keeping up this current, because each one of the con- stituents is of such minute dimensions that it maintains itself. It also does the same around the smallest magnet. 35. THE HUMAN BODY IS A DYNAMO. The human body is built up of minute globular bodies called atoms, the same as all animate or inanimate in nature, and these atoms are held together by the law of cohesion of the universal medium called ether. It is now known that ether and electricity are in every thing 22 EVOLUTION OF TH E HUMAN SOUL however small the atoms and molecules. And the human body is a dynamo, a machine for converting mechanical power into electricity. The fuel used for that purpose is the material substances that we eat, especially fat and other greasy food. The potential energy with which food is stored becomes converted into dynamic energy and is manifested in the body as heat constructive power, nervo-muscular action and mechan- ical motion. Food also supplies the materials which are requisite for the development and maintenance of life as well as for the display of its various kinds of active energy, and that organic and inorganic substances are necessary. The organic alone is oxidizable, or capable of generating force, while the inorganic, though not oxidi- zable, is essential to the metamorphosis of organic mat- ter which takes place in the animal economy. Nature furnishes food as it furnishes consumers from omnivorous man to the lowly chlorophyl body which alone feeds upon an exclusively mineral diet, and there are consumers for detrimental matter floating about us which neither the eye of man nor the microscope has ever scanned. There are organisms associated with the de- composition and decay of organic matter saprophytes whose special function in the order of life as it now pro- ceeds on the earth's surface as beginning with the chloro- phyl body and ending with the saprophyte. From the chlorophyl to man and from man to sapro- phyte what an all devouring world in which we live and have our temporal being. How beautiful are the im- mutable, the evolutionary, the creative and the preserv- ative laws of nature which God himself has instituted for the benefit of his children. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 23 36. THE INNER NERVES. From the spinal cord the (inner) nerves convey the energy that gives life and motion to the organs of the whole body, the same as electricity is conveyed by wires to the various lamps and machines in a factory. 2,7. SPIRIT. It appears electricity comes from ether and ether is latent; it creates electricity, the active force power and vital strength in all nature. Scientists say ether is not matter. What is it then ? It must be spirit. The theory is that ether is a subtle, weightless and highly elastic medium. The name ether has been given, and it per- vades all space and all bodies. There is everything in the scientific account of ether or spirit to suggest the attributes of a creator and preserver of the whole uni- verse. 38. FIRST PERIOD OF THE EARTH's EVOLUTION. The earth in its beginning as a planet, after changing from a comet, swung out in the orbit of Neptune. 39. SECOND PERIOD. Its second period was in the orbit of Uranus, when Oxygen combined with Hydrogen and created watery vapors. 40. THIRD PERIOD. It was in Saturn's orbit, during the third period, when vegetation began in low forms. 24 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 41. FOURTH PERIOD. Jupiter was the fourth period, when immense beds of coal were deposited from carbon clouds, and the first time upon the surface of our planet came the light of the sun and stars. 42. FIFTH PERIOD. The Asteroids represented the fifth period, when the fishes and low forms of life, which since the third period had filled the waters, now evolved higher and amphibious forms and winged fowls and reptiles. 43. SIXTH PERIOD. Mars was the sixth period. Nearer to the sun the light shone with increased vitalizing power, transforming all the types of former life. The human foot and hand, the human form and dim miniature of the human brain made their advent in the world. Monkeys, Apes, the Orang-outang, Chimpanzees, and like human caricatures, appeared crossing, propagating and rising higher, while out from the progressing and evolving cosmos of material came man. 44. SEVENTH PERIOD. Earth's seventh period began with the Noachian de- luge, hundreds of thousands of years ago, when the earth suddenly changed its polar axis, from Salt Lake, Utah, to its present place, which caused a great deluge. There is good reason to believe that the north pole is surrounded by a lake of heavy salt water and lava caused to belch forth from the bowels of the earth by the EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 25 rotation of the earth's axis. It is based on facts, among which I may mention some: The nearer we get to the pole the more salty is the water, and plants have been found floating in the water current from the pole. Some people have come to the conclusion that there must be a warm climate where some human beings make their habitation. It cannot be so as it must be extremely cold outside of the lake. But from the edge around the lake the boiling lava would melt the ice and snow and thaw the ground to a certain depth, then the creative force in nature would bring forth plant life. 45. EIGHT PERIOD. Venus will be the eighth period, when man will be- come grander, better, an unity of one mind, in conform- ity with the universal spirit. The light of the moon will then be the light of the sun and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold its present intensity. 46. NINTH PERIOD. Mercury will be our ninth period — a world of death, the rocky tomb of all that preceded. 47. WORLDS HAVE PERIODS OF GROWTH. Worlds have periods of growth, development and de- cay. Their beginnings and histories correspond to the beginnings and developments of individual life — incep- tions — embryos — birth — childhood — manhood — old age — death. 26 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 48. COMETS ARE PLANETS IN EMBRYO. Comets are planets in embryo; like the embryo of all life, they do not all reach maturity, being often precipi- tated upon planets or drawn into the vortex of suns. They wander in space carried by the ether currents im- parted by the rotation of great suns until their consuming fires have condensed for them a nucleus rock-encrusted and a surrounding atmospheric envelope upon which a sun's rays act, imparting axial and orbital motion, when they appear in a changed aspect, new born babies among the planets. 49. THREE DIFFERENT DAYS OF THE EARTH. The earth has three different kinds of days; an axial day of 24 hours, an orbital day of one year, and an elliptical day of 600,000 years. 50. SIR EDWARD FRY. Sir Edward Fry computes the time which has elapsed since life appeared op the earth at 450,000,000 years, and that is only a minute of man's time compared with the age of the earth. 51. COMPUTATION OF THE AGE OF THE EARTH. I have carefully made computations from the time the earth became a planet and began its revolution around the sun to the time life appeared at 69,748,000,000,000 years. From the time the earth was only a handful of cosmic gas and formed into a comet and traveled through space from one planetary system to another to the time it became a planet of our system, no calculation is pos- EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL 27 sible. But we may safely say it took as long a time to become a planet as it took to prepare the planet for ani- mal life. The earth may not be less than 139,496,450,- 000,000 years old. 52. ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS OF THE HINDOOS. The Hindoos have astronomical records giving dates of conjunctions and eclipses of the sun and moon which occurred 30,000 years ago. 53. CHINESE RECORDS. The Chinese records tell of events that occurred among their ancesters 129,000 years ago. The government rec- ords, still preserved in their libraries, cover a period of 8,000 years. 54. THE PERSIAN AVESTA. The Persians in their old avesta give a history of tribes and races covering a period- of hundreds of thou- sands of years. 55. JAPANESE ANNALS. In Japan their annals give detailed records of a line of kings reaching back 17,000 years. 56. HINDOSTAN CIRCLES. In Hindostan time is divided by circles, the last of which is called the Salya Jug, which is now elapsing. At its commencement lived one of their ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago. 28 EVOLUTION OF TH E HUMAN SOUL 57. SACRED BOOKS OF THE MENDICANTS ORDER. The Buddhistic circle of chronology, according to the sacred books of the mendicants order, is called a Sankya, the square of which is called an Anta Kalpa, representing a period of time reaching into the infinite past at the be- ginning of which we are told the first Buddha began to preach. 58. FROM SUBLUNARY TO THE SUPERNATURAL. Geology forms a part of the general doctrine of evolu- tion. The complete emancipation of modern geologists from the controlling and perverting influence of theology is of recent occurrence. The geologists of to-day have their eyes upon facts and not upon geneses, and ignore altogether the pentateuchal mythology. For eight cen- turies, from Thales to Galen, the logicians toiled at the foundations of physical science. The natural knowledge was brought to a standstill by the decay of the Roman Empire. The diversion of men's thought from sublu- nary matter to the problem of the supernatural world was suggested by Christian dogma in the middle ages, but it was not until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that physical science made a new start. 59. ANTHROPOLOGY. Investigations during our time have put beyond doubt the vast antiquity of Babylonian and Egyptian civiliza- tion, all of which are in perfect harmony with the con- clusions of anthropology as to the antiquity of the human species. Man is a genus and species of the animal world and the physical characters of various races of men EVOIiUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 29 have been studied with minuteness and accuracy, and the demonstrative evidence of the existence of human con- temporaries of the extinct animals of the latest geological epoch has been obtained. 60. MATERIALISTIC SCIENTISTS. Psychology is the doctrine of the soul. Materialistic scientists have demonstrated that the objective mind is a function of the brain. Each sense has a brain center ex- clusively its own and when one of the brain centers is eliminated or paralyzed the corresponding sense is de- stroyed. When all the brain centers are destroyed the whole mind is obliterated. ' 61. FIRST STEP IN EVOLUTION. The conclusion is there can be no future life. If that were the only mental organism existent in man there would be no hope of a future life. The subjective mind or soul exists independently of any specialized organ whatever. The soul performs all the functions and ex- hibits all the essential phenomena of organic life, namely, — sensation, movement, nutrition and reproduction — all this being antecedent to and independent of reason, ex- perience or instruction. The mental energy resident within the Moneron is the power which caused its own development from an undifferentiated mass of plasson to the differentiated or nucleated amaebra, thus taking the first forward step in the process of organic evolution. The mind of the Moneron was the antecedent cause of the physical organism. It exists in them and performs its functions as perfectly in proportion to its stage of 30 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL development as it does in the highly organized human being. The soul is a self-existent entity and does not in- here in any organ of the body, just as God is immanent m the physical universe. God does not depend upon the existence of the physical universe for the continuance of his own existence, neither is the existence of the soul dependent upon that of the body. The objective mind is located in the brain. It cannot of its own volition move one purely involuntary muscle. Joint control is possible only in mixed muscles such as sphincters and organs of respiration, but of the purely involuntary mus- cles the objective mind has no direct volitional control. The subjective mind or soul can and often does take entire control of the whole body and wields it at its will. This can be brought about experimentally by means of hypnotism. When the brain's functions are entirely in- hibited, the subjective mind can be made to dominate the whole physical system, and it invariably occurs when the body is in imminent and deadly peril. In such a crisis the objective senses are benumbed, the brain ceases to act, and a condition, anaesthesia, supervenes. But under the control of the soul the body acts with rapidity and precision and feats of strength are performed that would be absolutely impossible under normal conditions. The soul controls the whole body without reference to specialized organs. 62. THE ABSOLUTE. Humanity is the shadow of Deity, the veil through which the Absolute reveals himself, casting about in the muntiplicity of natural forms after an expression through EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 31 physical means of his own nature. In this sublime con- ception God is the life of the universe who rests in the rock, breathes in the plant, moves in the animal and wakes up to consciousness in man. The human organism could not have grown up out of mere matter but implies a pre-existent personal idea, which grouped around itself the organic conditions of physical existence and con- strained the material elements to follow its plan. This dynamic agent, or soul, must have existed independent of the body before the receptacle was prepared. The soul is not in the body locally; the center is the spinal cord, but its intrinsic and extrinsic mould is that which makes the members and shapes the whole within and without. The body then is in the soul, the soul in the mind, spirit the intellectual, and the spirit is God. 63. THE INFINITE. Ether fills all space between the planets. It is the same that fills the space between atoms, except in degree that all the atoms of matter float in it and are held to- gether by the attraction of cohesion. What this ether it has been the subject of much speculation among phi- losophers, without arriving at any definite conclusion, further than that it is a substance possessing almost in- finite elasticity, and whose ultimate particles, if particles there be, are so small that no sensible substance can be made sufficiently dense to resist it or confine it. It is easy to see that a substance possessing such qualities cannot be weighed or in any way made appreciable to our senses. But from the fact that radiant energy can be transmitted through it with vibrations amounting to millions per second we know that it must be a substance 32 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL which elastic qualities that approach the infinite, and we assume that the ether is a substance. However, the more one is impressed with the thought that after all the ether may be the one element out of which all other elements come. Is it intelligence, mind, spirit, soul, God? 64. NATURAL LAWS. Natural Law is commonly known as Chemistry and Physics and the laws that govern the material world, but includes as well the laws of our own being as intel- lectual and spiritual units. All laws, physical, intellectual and spiritual are natural. Law is inflexible and per- vades not only the physical kingdom but the kingdom of mind and soul as well, for whatever is in fact is natural. How wonderfully beautiful are the operations of the laws of nature in their relation to man as a thinking, rea- soning and emotional being. How wonderfully they are adapted to his needs as guides, not only through this transient, shifting world in which we live, but as sug- gestion, pregnant with meaning as to what may be in store for him in the great beyond. The great physical law, known as the conservation of energy related to ani- mal and vegetable existence, may be related to that higher order of existence that seems to be so intimately connected with the mind and soul. Here we look over from the realm of the physical into the realm of the spiritual and intellectual, and there we see a train of facts that are just as real as any facts in the world of material: Virtue, love, hate, vice, mind, intelligence and religion are facts that the student of nature can no more ignore than he can the fact of light. We are EVOLUTION OF THE HU MAN SOUL 33 bound to recognize these facts although we may not be able to explain them. They cannot be explained from a purely physical standpoint, but before the philosopher can reconcile them with facts of the natural world he must know and recognize them. There is no correct thinking without a mutual recognition of the facts in the material and spiritual realms by both the physicist and philosopher. 65. THE TRINITY. Let us consider matter, energy, intelligence. The two former are indestructible and we are forced to the con- clusion that the last named either antedated or was co- existent with the former. Since the first two obey and the third commands energy and matter must take a sub- ordinate position to intelligence. Intelligence, matter, energy — Nature's trinity in her manifestations. 66. THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF MARRIAGE. All nature submits to the universal law of marriage. The force of love and longings in the mind of plant life is defined and sex has been clearly marked the mate as animals do. The lowest order of plants, the threadlike pond weeds, show us the beginning of life and the form of mating. The little strings of cells coalesce and form new threads giving us the first hint of the sex function. The countless forms of plant life are so low as to be ordinarily beneath our notice, marriage and reproduction go on. The creative instinct is the most universal and powerful force in nature, and so is the force of love. Man meets thousands of women and they do not touch him. Then he sees the one and she holds him and the world seems empty to him without her. CHAPTER III. Man Has Two Minds. 67. DR. HAMMOND. One of our scientists. Surgeon General Hammond, de- livered an address before the New York Neurological Society on the subject of "The Brain not the Sole Organ of the Mind." He declared in substance that the brain of man is more highly developed than that of any other animal. Man has reasoning power in excess of those possessed by any other living being ; man's mind governs the world, and not content with that, seeks for knowledge of those spheres beyond the one in which he dwells. But with all this he is surpassed by almost every other animal in the ability to perform acts instinctively; by beings, in fact, whose brains are infinitely less perfect than his and by others which have no organs correspond- ing to a brain. 68. THE INSTINCT. If the instinct of man were seated in his brain he would doubtless exhibit a development of his faculty so great as to place him on that score as high as he now stands as regards his mind. 69. THE LOWER ANIMALS. Going back for the present to some of the lower animals we find that we are able by certain experimental proced- ures to settle certain points relative to the seat of instinct with absolute acceptancy that it does not reside exclu- sively in the brain. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 35 70. A VIPER. The brain of many animals, especially of those be- longing to reptiles, can be removed without the creature suffering any considerable immediate inconvenience. In such cases the instinct remains unimpaired. Thus Maine de Biran states that according to Terrault a viper, the head of which had been cut off, moved without deviation to its hole in the wall. It is impossible that the viper could have seen, heard, smelled, tasted or felt the wall. It could only have gone toward it instinctively through the action of a force not residing in its brain and alto- gether independent of perception. 71. A FROG. It is an instinct in certain animals to swim when placed in water. I removed the entire brain of a frog, and after waiting a few minutes for the animal to recover from the shock of the operation I placed it in a tub of water. It immediately began to swim. I held my hand so that the animal's head would come in contact with it and thus further progress be prevented. Continued efforts to swim were made for a few seconds and then ceased. Removing my hand the animal again swam. 72. TURTLES AND WATER SNAKES. I have repeatedly performed similar experiments with turtles and water snakes. In all these cases the whole brain was removed from the cranium, yet the animals did not wobble about aimlessly in the water but swam straight out into the stream or pond apparently with as complete a purpose to escape as though they still pos- 36 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL sessed the full degree of consciousness of the animals not so treated. Such experiments show, beyond a doubt, that percep- tion and volition are not seated exclusively in the brain and thus that instinct is not indissolubly connected with that organ. 73. INSTINCT NOT IN THE BRAIN. It is impossible to make similar investigations in the higher animals with such definite results as those obtained with reptiles, but we may call to mind the fact familiar to all physiologists, and to which reference has been made in another part of this work, of the behavior of pigeons, the brain of which had been removed. Though in such a case most of the actions are the result of perception, yet some, as for instance the act of flying when it is thrown into the air, are purely instinctive. Nature, how- ever, has performed many experiments for us and these not only on the lower animals, but also on man, which teach us conclusively that even in him instinct does not reside in the brain. 74. CERTAIN UNFORTUNATES. In certain unfortunates born without a brain, or with important parts of this organ absent, we have interesting examples of the persistence of instinct. Symes describes one of these beings which lived for six months, though very feeble. It had the faculty of sucking and the sev- eral functions of the body appeared to be well performed. Its eyes clearly perceived the light. After death the cranium was opened and there was found to be an entire absence of the cerebrum, the place of which was occupied EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL 37 by a quantity of serous fluid contained in the arachnoid. The cerebellum and pons varolii were present. 75. OLLIVER DE ANGERS. Olliver de Ange;rs describes a freak of the female sex which lived twenty hours. It cried and could suck and swallow. There was no brain but the spinal cord and medulla oblongata were well developed. 76. SAVIAED. Saviard relates the particulars of a case in which there were no cerebrum, cerebellum or any other intracranial ganglion. The spinal cord began as a little red tumor on a level with the foramen magnum. Yet this being opened and shut its eyes, cried, sucked and even ate broth. It lived four days. Some of these movements were reflex but others were clearly instinctive and adapted to the preservation of life. "J-J. DUBOIS. Dubois cites the case of a fetus born at full term in which the cerebrum and cerebellum were entirely absent. There were no ganglionic bodies within the cranium but the medulla oblongata and the pons varoli. The fetus lived three days, during which time it uttered cries, exer- cised suction movements when anything was put into its mouth and moved the limbs. It was nourished with milk and sweetened water, for no nurse would give it her breast. Dubois cites another case on the authority of Spessa of a child born without cerebrum, cerebellum or medulla oblongata, and which lived eleven hours. It 38 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL cried, breathed and moved its limbs, but it did not suck. It is difficult to say of this case to what extent its move- ments were instinctive and to what extent reflex. But all these instances, as well as the experiments re- ferred to as having been performed on lower animals, show that instinct does not reside in the brain. 78. THE SEAT OF INSTINCT. It is seated exclusively in the medulla oblongata, or in the spinal cord, or in both these organs. The observa- tions made and experiments cited under the immediately preceding head, apparently lead to the conclusion that the medulla oblongata, or spinal cord, or both the organs may be the seat of instinct, and further inquiry shows that this view is as correct as that which associates the brain with the mind. 79. EXPERIMENTS OF DR. HAMMOND. Dr. Hammond cited many experiments of his own dem- onstrating marvelous strength and persistency of instinct- ive acts and emotions after all the intracranial ganglia were completely removed. 80. MICROCEPHALI. In microcephali and other human idiots the instincts are sometimes exceedingly strong and remain so through life. I have already referred to the instance of one of these creatures, an adult woman holding a rag baby in her arms as though it were a child, and in whom the maternal instinct must have been strong and entirely uncontrolled by the intellect. Some idiots also evince a great instinc- EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 39 tive talent for music and arithmetical calculations, which, although capable of development as are other instincts, are nevertheless innate. 8l. FROM THESE FACTS. From these facts, and many others which might be ad- dressed in a work specially directed to the consideration of the interesting points involved, I think it may be con- cluded that instinct has at least its chief, if not its only seat, in the medulla oblongata and spinal cord. It is possible that the cerebrum, the cerebellum and the pons varolii have some influence in strengthening the faculty, but this is not essential, and its exercise is not a mental operation. 82. SUMMARY FROM DR. HAMMOND. In the foregoing summary from Dr. Hammond I think it will be seen that all the faculties of the mind are not confined to the brain, that the higher functions of the in- tellect are by men performed instinctively. 83. MAN HAS TWO DISTINCT FACULTIES. The medulla oblongata is situated at the base of the brain and so closely connected with the upper end of the spinal cord that it seems to be a part of the nerve, so we may say that the instinct or subjective mind is in the spinal cord. It will be seen that men have two minds, with two distinct faculties, one in the brain, the other in the spinal cord, a fact that has been fully demonstrated by eminent scientists. 40 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 84. THE CENTER ORGAN- The subjective mind or soul, the center organ, is the spinal cord with ramifications throughout the whole body. It is that mind which operates when the objective senses are inhibited, as in sleep ; that mind which is active and potent when there is a total absence of power in the brain, as in idiocy ; that mind which performs its function with undiminished power after the brain has been totally eliminated from the cranial cavity. It is that same mind which is active in hypnotic trance, that mind was before any creature was evolved or created out of matter and mind ; it is that mind which antedates the brain, the latter being the result of organic evolution ; that same mind is a part of the essence of God, the universal spirit, individ- ualized ; that mind always has been and always will be — it is the soul of man. 85. THE OBJECTIVE MIND. The objective mind of man, located in the brain, is the five physical senses ; the highest function is that of reas- oning, it is adapted to cope with the exigencies of a phy- sical environment. This is the mind with which the materialistic scientist deals when seeking to demonstrate by means of surgery that the soul cannot survive the on- slaught of medical science. 86. THE SUBJECTIVE MIND. The subjective mind is the seat of passion and emotion, and it is itself an organized entity, possessing independent power and function, and dynamic force and existence in- dependent of the body. It is the life principle of the ma- EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 41 terial body, and its normal function pertains solely to the perpetuation of the human race and the preservation of the human life. It is the primary intelligence with which all sentient creatures are endowed. It existed hundreds of millions of years before a brain was developed in the process of organic evolution. It is the ultimate intelli- gence. It survives the death of the body. It is the in- dividualized soul of man. CHAPTER IV. Hypnotism and its Cognate Phenomena. 87. MESMERISM. Mesmerism dates from 1773. Dr. Mesmer was the first to produce sleep by passes, he and his followers never doubting that the influence which brought on sleep was a power proceeding from themselves and producing its ef- fect upon the patient in addition to sleep or lethargy, somnambulism, catalepsy, anesthesia and amnesia, or ab- sence of all knowledge of what transpired during sleep. 88. DR. BRAID. In 1842, Dr. Braid, of England, made interesting ex- periments in which he showed that sleep could be pro- duced by having the patient gaze steadily at a fixed brilliant object or point, without resorting to passes or manipulations of any kind, and he still further developed the idea and use of suggestion. 89. PROF. CHARCOT. In 1877, Prof. Charcot, of France, after several years satisfied himself by ample experiments, and announced his full belief in the facts and the phenomena of hypno- tism. The attention of the scientific world was at once turned toward it, and it became a legitimate subject of study. From that time to the present it has formed one of the most conspicuous and interesting subjects of psy- chical investigation. It has become to psychology what EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL i3 determining the value of a single character is to reading ancient inscriptions in a lost or unknown language and helps to furnish clues to still greater discoveries. 90. THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH. In 1882, various eminent men in England founded the Society for Psychical Research. Prof. Sedgwick of Trinity College, Cambridge, was made President, Prof. Barrett of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, and Prof. Stewart of Owens College, Manchester, were made Vice Presidents, while among the members were many well known names of Fellows of various learned and scientific societies, besides noted professional and public men. Among the subjects first taken up for examination and experimental study were these: 1. Thought-transference, or an examination into the nature and extent of any influence which may be exerted by one mind upon another, apart from any generally rec- ognized mode of perception or communication. 2. Hypnotism and the forms of so-called mesmeric trance. 3. An investigation of well-authenticated reports re- garding apparitions. 4. Inquiry into various psychical phenomena com- monly called spiritualism. Other societies have been founded for the sanje purpose in America and Europe by scientific men and women, and thousands of cases have been reported. Dr. Braid showed that trance could be produced by gazing steadily at a crystal or a fixed brilliant object. Crystal gazing has from the earliest times been made use of for the purpose of producing visions and divination 44 EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL and prophecy. The practice is still observed among the people of India, the Arabs in northern Africa and by people of other religions. 91. DIVINATION. The Urim and Thummin of the Bible were doubtless stones of splendor used by the high priests to inquire of the Lord. The Greeks had divination by crystal-gazing. The Roman use of crystals in a manner took the place of the early oracles. The Pagans and Jews practiced as a means of divination, clairvoyance and prophecy. The art of the crystal seer seems to have passed to early Christian times without material change except in cere- monials. 92. CRYSTAL-GAZING. Crystal-gazing in its various forms has from the ear- liest times been practiced with great ceremony for the purpose of acquiring knowledge concerning affairs and events unknown. 93. ONE IMPORTANT FACT. Stripped of its fictitious accessories — its charms, in- cantations, incense and prayers, one important fact re- mains common in the most ancient and the most modern usages, and that fact is the steady and continuous gazing at a bright object ; it is Dr. Braid's method of inducing the hypnotic trance. 94. PICTURES OF VISION. In crystal-gazing the full hypnotic condition is not usu- ally induced, in most cases a condition of reverie occurs EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 45 in which pictures or visions fill the mind or appear exter- nalized in the crystal. With some persons this condition is produced by becoming passive; with others these means, nor the assistance of a hypnotizer, avails to secure the message-bearing action of the soul. 95- SAUL. Saul inquired of the Lord regarding his future for- tunes, but the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams nor by prophets. Saul in his strait directly sought the witch of Endor, from whom he obtained what proved to be true information regarding the disasters which were to overwhelm him. 96. THE EGYPTIANS. The Egyptians had their magi, the Greeks and Romans their oracles, the Hebrews their seers and prophets, all great religions its inspired teachers; the Mormons their prophet, seer and revelator, the Indians their medicine man, Spiritualists their mediums and the whole world more or less their witches. 97. REASON AN UNFAITHFUL GUIDE. Until about 125 years ago, from the time of Dr. Mes- mer, all persons affected in any of these unusual ways were supposed to be endowed with supernatural power, under external supernatural influence, either divine or Sa- tanic. In those times reason was an unfaithful guide; common sense changed into delirium. It was a continual insult to human reason. Science has destroyed the foun- dation of superstition and given us liberty to use our God- given reason and to investigate. 46 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 98. SUPERSTITION. Superstition is the child of ignorance and fear. In the history of the world men of genius, of reason, of sense, of intellectual honesty have appeared and have denounced the superstitions of their day. They pitied the multitude ; age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak, the crafty and heartless ensnared and enslaved the simple and the innocent in the name of religion. The true re- ligion of nature, of science, of Jesus Christ, as practiced in the first Christian centuries, is uplifting. The man- made religion is tyrannical ; it cannot contemplate man as free ; she cannot tolerate the liberty of thought ; the sunny fields belong not to her domain; genius and individual- ity are above and beyond her appreciation and power; her subjects cringe at her feet covered with the dust of obedience. 99. THE TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE. Reason, observation and experience, the triumphs of science, have taught us that happiness is the only good, and the way to be happy is to make others so. A new world has been discovered by the microscope. Every- where has been found the infinite, in every direction man has investigated and explored, and nowhere has been found any being superior to or independent of nature. Nowhere has been discovered the slightest evidence of any interference from without. Old ideas perished in the retort of the chemist and useful truths took their places. 100. TO OPEN THE GATES OF THOUGHT. Science is not endeavoring to chain the future but to free the present, to open the gates of thought so that the EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 47 element of uncertainty will be removed from the domain of the future, and, from a succession of victories over the obstruction of nature, will attain a serene grandeur un- known to the disciples of any superstition. The mind will then investigate and publish its conclusions. lOI. PROTOPLASM. Science has demonstrated that all living creation, man included, descended from a common ancestry; by trac- ing the ancestry of man back through numerous gradients to the very lowest form of organic and mental life, be- ginning with the lowest unicellular organism, a piece of protoplasm that is alive, a living, moving entity. It is an animate creature and hence is endowed with a mind, for having a mind is the distinction between the animate and the inanimate in all nature. The moneron exercises all the primary function and produces all the primary phenomena of organic life — nutrition, reproduction, sen- sation and movement. It does so in a way that presup- poses intelligence. It adapts means to ends and exercises the power of choice, which is the crucial test of intel- ligence. 102. MONERON. The instinct in moneron will apply to the highest in- tution in man, that his highest intuitions are the result of the development of identical faculties existing inchoate in that early ancestor and that by development became the highest mental attributes of man, by extension to infinity, the hi°-hest conceivable attributes of an omniscient Deity. 48 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 103. THE GREAT SERVICE OF JESUS. One great service Jesus performed for humanity was his repudiation of the crude anthropopathic conceptions of God which had been handed down by the early Jewish prophets. Instead he has given Us a conception of the universal spirit of God, his attributes and his relations to man, that has served to intensify, exalt, purify and justify that instinctive emotion which is the basic attri- bute of all religions. Science, in the last hundred years has continued the work by revealing truths which serve to confirm the intuition of Jesus and justify his conclu' sions. The great law of evolution of organic and spiritual life from the moneron to man serves but to stimulate to their highest expression those emotions of reverence and worship. The same laws that developed the mental or- ganism of animals from the moneron to man are the ac- tive agencies of men's progressive development from primitive savagery to the highest civilization, mental, moral and religious. The primary instincts are shared in common by men and the lower animals. Intuition is a higher instinct that belongs to the subjective mind. The emotions of man are obviously identical with the animal propensities of the lower ancestors, and they antedate the brain. They are faculties of the subjective mind. The emotion of religious worship finds its root and origin in the intuitive recognition of the Divine Fatherhood. 104. SUGGESTION. Modern hypnotism, mesmerism, telepathy, animal mag- netism, thought-reading, or thought-transference, are of the family which, in earlier times, when men were less EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 49 wont to analyze natural phenomena by rational methods, brought forth the practices of the magicians, the antics of the demoniacs, the expulsion of evil spirits by exor- cism, the healing by laying on hands, the judicial punish- ment of the hallucinations of the witches, and the cruelty of the witch-finders. The proceedings by which the faithful gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, reason to the insane, movement to the paralyzed, were methods of what we now call suggestion, and the application of the influence of suggestion to persons in the various men- tal and physical states, whether in health or disease, will serve to throw light on some of the tragic blood-stained pages in history. 105. MATERIALIZATION SEANCES. Millions of men and women base their hopes of a life beyond the grave upon their belief that through the phenomena of spiritualism they have evidence of the im- mortality of the soul that they can communicate with the spirits of loved ones who have died in the flesh. I have attended spiritualistic and materializing seances. The room in each case was always darkened. There appeared in some instances so-called spirits. Some were clothed with an abundance of flesh, light was seen at different times, which appeared and disappeared rapidly, but al- ways indistinct and phosphorescent. The medium usu- ally said they were ethereal spirits. It seemed to me pure legerdemadn. By such tricks are guileless but honest folks deceived. It is mediumcraft. 106. CLOSED SLATES. Some mediums take two slates fastened together, put 50 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL a pencil in the inside, close the slates and let the spirit write messages. It is the work of the magician and the conjurer. Spiritualism as a whole is very unsatisfactory as far as my experience goes. 107. HONEST MEDIUMS. No doubt there are honest mediums who, when in an abnormal state, see apparitions, and fully believe them to be spirits from the other world, but the phantoms they saw were evolved in their own subjective minds. Dynamic energy of the soul is that power which is manifested in the levitation of the body of the psychic. It is that power manifested in the so-called spirit phenomena, such as open slate writing, rappings, table lifting, etc. It was the same power which enabled Jesus and Peter to walk upon the water, and that same power manifested in tele- pathy. 108. AUTOMATIC WRITINGS. Automatic slate writing consists in holding a pencil in the hand and letting it write. The subjective mind as- sumes control of the muscles and nerves of the arm and hand and propels the pencil. It is always a message en- gendered in the subjective mind, either by suggestion, auto-suggestion or telepathy, the objective mind being perfectly quiescent and totally oblivious of what is being written. 109. DIVINELY APPOINTED RULERS. On a memorable occasion the Church rule observing president of a combination that practically controls the production, transportation and marketing of anthracite EVOLUTIO N OF THE HUMAN SOUL 51 coal, asserted that "We Christian men, to whom God in his infinite wisdom has given control of the property in- terests of the country, pray earnestly that right may triumph, always remembering that the Lord God omni- potent still reigns, and that his reign is one of law and order." Has the Almighty given him a monoply on the coal business, and does he intend using his divinely given power to squeeze the last dollar out of the coal consumer? Kings, Emperors, Czars, Sultans, and other rulers who claim to have special commissions from God (we must not forget the late addition Dowie, Elijah III), being supernaturally appointed rulers and ambassa- dors on earth, are self-appointed, some being dissemblers and others self-deceived, and as a rule are more or less religious enthusiasts and bigots being one step only from insanity. In the divinely appointed rules reason has abdi- cated its function and he is at the mercy of his subjective mind which in turn is controlled by false suggestion of his own objective intelligence. It was the same source of errors that led religious bigots to crucify and burn heretics and hang witches. no. THE SAVIORS OF MANKIND. Who are the saviors of mankind, Confucius, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Lincoln, Tolstoi or any good man and woman engaged in lifting the fallen, feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, upbuilding human society, spreading intelligence, advancing science, destroying the founda- tion of superstition, acts of these kind were they prac- ticed by every one would change the destiny of the hu- man race and dispel the gloom that struggle and strife has cast upon all nations of the earth. 52 EVOLUTION OF THE HU MAN SOUL III. A DEBT OF GRATITUDE. The world owes a great debt of gratitude to such eminent scientists as Darwin, Spencer, Hurley, Tyndall, Mesmer, Braid, Hudson and others for striking down the supernatural and substituting in its place the true laws of nature. 112. TELEPATHY. In the year 1863, at Salt Lake City, Utah, a man brought a letter to my office. It was dated and post- marked in Colorado. A part of the letter read as fol- lows: "Dear Father: — I have been very uneasy. Yesterday I went to a spiritual medium and told him I was afraid something serious had happened to my folks in Salt Lake City, and asked him if he could tell me. The medium went into a trance and said, "Your mother is very sick, the doctor is attending her and says if she is better in the morning he thinks she will fully recover.' " I was there and saw the patient the evening mentioned in the letter, and remember saying to the patient's family in substance what the medium told the young man. It was about two weeks since the letter was postmarked and it would take about that time to reach Salt Lake City. There could possibly have been no fraud. I must confess I did not know at the time how to solve that phenomenon. I did not believe spirits could communicate with the liv- ing. The father said the medium was possessed of the devil. I did not agree with him in this respect but could not venture a better opinion. The fact is, it was a telepathic communication; the medium's soul was there, saw and heard what was going EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 53 on and returned in an instant and told the young man through the medium's vocal organs. 113. MY DAUGHTER EMMA. Some years ago I met a spiritual medium, Mr. John- son by name who hailed from Boston, we were in an office in St. Paul, Minn. He was sitting on a chair while I was standing by a desk. Looking up he said to me, "The spirit of a young lady is standing by your side, and is putting a wreath upon your head." The following colloquy occurred: "What is the name of the spirit?" "Emma."' "What is the age of the spirit?" "Her age appears to be between twenty and twenty- four." "Where did she die in the flesh ?" "In another state, south of here." "Do spirits grow in the other world?" "Certainly they do." I had a daughter by the name of Emma who died at the age of six months at Burr Oak, Iowa, and were she living at the present time would be about twenty-one years old. All the questions were answered as to ap- pear to come from the spirit of my daughter Emma. The medium was a stranger to me and knew nothing of my family or myself. 114. THE FACTS. The fact is, the medium got all his information from my subjective mind. It was a telepathic communication ; the apparition he saw was evolved in his mind and pro- 54 EVOLU TION OF THE HUMAN SOUL jected out to my side. It is certain he saw the appari- tion and fully believed it was a spirit from the other world. His objective mind was partially in abeyance, the same as when we sleep and in dreams see apparitions, not with our eyes but with our soul. We have no logical right to attribute any phenomena to discarnate spirits that can be accounted for on principles of subjective faculties. It was not my objective mind the medium read. I was not at the time thinking of my daughter when he said "Emma" and neither was I for a mcv- ment afterward. I did not know any spirit by that name who could be interested enough in me to come and make me a spiritual visit. I then thought of my daughter Emma and asked the questions as above stated. As to the age of the apparition, I can solve that only as the medium believed spirits grow in the other world. He knew from the telepathic communications the length of time she had been dead, or from the appearance of the apparition. 115. SINCERE. Spiritual mediums sincerely believe that communica- tions come from the spirit world and that they are un- conscious of any lot or part in determining the contents or character of communications. 116. THE THEORY OF SPIRITUALISM. The theory of spiritualism is that the spirit of the dead takes possession of the medium's body and employs their vocal organs and hands for speaking and writing, the function of the medium's brain being in the meantime suspended. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 55 117. TELEPATHY IS A FACT. The Society for Psychical Research, has a long array of recorded experiments of hypnotic phenomena, by men of known ability and unquestioned integrity, therefore, it seems wasteful to cite the many other cases that have come under my own observation. Admitting that one human mind in the body can in certain cases so project its thoughts as to impress them upon another human mind, also in the body, and this upon evidence I con- fidently assert, when the body is cast aside can the dis- embodied mind or soul communicate and project its thoughts upon the embodied mind. If it can, such thought projection or impression is not in any sense supernatural, it does it under the same law of nature. It is merely telepathy. 118. A. R. WALLACE. A. R. Wallace, the great scientist, said that no more evidence is needed to prove spiritualism, for no accepted fact in science has a greater or stronger array of proof in its behalf. Dr. Hudson says in his book against spiritualism, "The man who denies the phenomena of spiritualism to-day is not entitled to be called a skeptic, he is simply ignorant." Dr. Myers, when he began his work with the Society for Psychical Research at Cam- bridge, England, was an agnostic as to future existence. At the time of his death, five years ago, he was one of the greatest psychologists of any age. He said after de- ducting all that is fraudulent and misleading in spiritual- istic phenomena and attributing all possible to subjective faculties, there still remains sufficient to justify sure be- 56 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL lief in actual physical communication with discarnate spirits. 119. THE PSEUDO SCIENTIFIC SPIRITUALIST. The pseudo scientific spiritualist professes to know everything in this and the next world; no calculations trouble his serenity, no hard experiments, no long, labori- ous readings ; no attempts to make clear in words that which has rejoiced the heart and elevated the mind. He talks glibly of all sciences, overwhelming the inquirer with terms like, animal magnetism, electrobiologize, etc. — a mere play upon words, showing ignorance rather than understanding. Popular science such as this is little able to guide discovery rushing onward to an un- known future. 120. A FOOL. A fool may say in his heart that all phenomena are frauds, and a fool of an equal amount of insight saith, "There never has been an intelligence from the spirit world." He may say correctly, "I never heard or saw one, but that is to say a different thing." The subject is far deeper than is reached by the fraud hypothesis. 121. MEDIUM TAKES PAY. That a medium takes pay should not be a sufficient ground for her or his rejection, for a medium must live, as must a clergyman. The laborer is worthy of his hire. It is easy to rail at mediums, asking: "Can it be that the spirit world is engaged in the sacred cause of supply- ing intermundane communications at one dollar a head?" So we might ask, can it be that heaven is saving souls at this and that salary ? EVOLUTION OF THE HUMA N SOUL 57 122. PROGRESS. Immense progress has been made by the Society for Psychical Research and other psychologists in the ex- ploration of the subjective mind. Since 1882 marvels upon marvels have been revealed, with hints often of a far greater domain to be explored — a domain so great and marvelous as to make us stand still with amazement. The laborious documents of the Society for Psychical Research are there for all the world to see, and while we have exposed much fraud and discredited much spir- itualism we have collected evidence of the possibility of communication between this and the other world. 123. DR. MYERS. It is known that Dr. Frederick Myers, one of the chief founders of the Society for Psychical Research and its leader for many years, prioV to his death arranged for ways by which officers of the Society would be able to identify him should he find it possible to communicate with them after he had reached the spirit world. It is now understood that leading officers of the Society are convinced that they have received communication which they recognize as from him. 124. GLADSTONE. Gladstone, once the premier of England, said, when accepting honorary membership in the Society for Psy- chical Research : "It is the most important work which is being done in the world — by far the most important." 125. HENRY WARD BEECHER. Henry Ward Beecher, not long before his death, said, "What makes me believe that there is something in 58 EVOLUTION OF TH E HUMAN SOUL spiritualism is not what I see at the pubHc seance-room, but what I know takes place in the homes of many of my friends who are mediums." 126. MOMENTOUS QUESTION. The most momentous question for man is, whether or not he has an immortal soul. It has from the first been the object of the Society for Psychical Research to solve the problem of future life. The blame must not be sifted upon nature, but upon pride and stupidity of a cer- tain class of men. They fought the Copernian astron- omy, Newtonian Gravitation, Darwinism, the existence of meteors and hypnotism. Then when they were proved they appropriated them as their own and made it the mark of intelligence to believe them. The more they change the more they remain the same. They will pass through the same development in psychic research, and when survival after death is scientifically proved by facts it will be the respectable thing to believe and to teach. 127. PERSONAL IDENTITY. Personal identity was secured by Professor J. H. Hys- lop, in 1898 and 1899, while Professor of Logic and Eth- ics in Columbia University, New York. He, with the help of Dr. R. Hodgson, had twenty carefully planned sittings with Mrs. Piper, a private medium, securing a full stenographic report of everything said. This full report, with explanations and comments by Professor Hyslop, was published in the Proceedings of the Society for Psy- chical Research, the whole making a large volume of 640 octavo pages- EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 59 128. PROFESSOR HYSLOP. The extreme scientific care taken by Professor Hyslop in tliese investigations, and in the record and publication of them, should give his record and conclusions great weight. He strongly inclines to the belief that the in- telligences talking were those of his father and other de- ceased relatives. The identity of some of these intelli- gences he feels has been established. Detailed informa- tion was given again and again by intelligences that claimed to be the professor's father and other of his re- latives, about matters in their earthly lives which were not known to the professor, and which on investigation he found to be facts. He asked his father to give him a key or watchword by which he would be able to iden- tify him in any future communications. He did so, and some time afterward the professor was consulting an intelligence who claimed to be his father through another medium, and this intelligence identified himself by giving him his watchword which the professor had told no liv- ing mortal. 129. AN AGNOSTIC. Professor Hyslop was not a Spiritualist (and is not now in the ordinary sense) when he began his investiga- tions through the Society for Psychical Research. He was an agnostic concerning all spirit communications, and, in fact, a materialist. The fact that these proofs of identity have so strongly impressed so skeptical and critical a mind as is Professor Hyslop's, is profoundly significant. 130. THE SPIRIT OF PROFESSOR SIDGWICK. Regarding the automatic writing, purporting to come 60 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL from the late Professor Sidgwick, one of the chief foun- ders of the Society for Psychical Research, its first presi- dent and, up to his death, its most trusted leader, we give the following data : Alice Johnson, the private secretary of Mrs. Sidgwick, says, "I think that there can be no doubt that the resemblance is not accidental ;" and Mrs. Sidgwick herself says, "There is an unmistakable likeness in the handwriting." Mrs. Sidgwick, it will be remem- bered, is the sister of the late Prime Minister Balfour, England, one of the founders of the Society for Psy- chical Research and one of the first vice presidents, and is herself one of the society's most eminent and critical investigators. 131. DR. R. HODGSON. Dr. R. Hodgson in Boston, the secretary and treasurer of the American branch of the Society for Psychical Re- search, is a man whose peculiar fitness for this kind of work is recognized both in Europe and America. When these psychic investigations began, Dr. Hodgson was "a hardheaded, critical skeptic," a disbeliever in life beyond the grave, a scientific materialist. The society is scien- tifically investigating these hidden phenomena through private mediums. The society has obtained the medium- ship of Mrs. Piper, having control of her whole time, and paying her a salary so as to relieve her from all anxiety and the ordinary temptations that lead some pub- lic mediums "to help out the spirits." Much time has been given by Dr. Hodgson to investi- gating (i) whether spirits do communicate; (2) whether any of those communicating are the persons they claim to be. The following case is one of many. EVOLUTI ON OF THE HUMAN SOUL 61 132. GEORGE PELHAM. George Pelham met his death suddenly in New York in 1892. He had devoted himself to literature and philosophy, was trained as a lawyer, was a member of the S. P. R., and he and Dr. Hodgson had had earnest conversations concerning the future life, in which neither believed. Mr. Pelham in one of their talks said that if he died first and found himself "still existing" he would "make things lively'' in the effort to reveal to Dr. Hodg- son the fact of his continued existence. 133. IDENTIFIED. Shortly after his death "George Pelham" appeared through Mrs. Piper, who did not know until long after- ward who Mr. Pelham was. In many ways and to a large number of friends he identified himself to the com- plete satisfaction of Mr. Hodgson and other acquaint- ances. Mr. Hodgson gives an account of many of these sittings in his "History of the George Pelham Communi- cations" which seem, in the judgment of many of the ablest members of the Society for Psychical Research, to be leading to a scientific demonstration that "if a man die" he will live again. 134. POWER OF SOUL. If the souls of some living men have the power of making themselves visible outside of the body, as it ap- pears they have, why cannot the soul of the dead reap- pear on earth independent of the so-called medium and visit persons in the flesh? 62 EVOLUTION OF THE' HUMAN SOUL 135. DISCARNATE AND INCARNATE SPIRITS Telepathy is the direct communion of soul with soul, in this world without the assistence of any of the physical senses, that is fully demonstrated. Is it not then rea- sonable to suppose that discarnate spirits in the other world can transmit thought waves and vibrations in the ether ocean to incarnate spirits in this world? 136. INDIVIDUALITY PERSISTS AFTER DEATH. "Some of us have proofs that the individuality persists after death, which are as certain as proofs can be. * * * The laborious documents of the Society for Psychical Research are here for all the world to see, and while we have exposed much fraud and discredited much spiritual- ism, we have collected evidence of the possibility of com- munication between this and the other worlds which de- serves consideration. We will publish shortly remark- able examples of automatic-writing which some of us believe to be a communication from Dr. Frederick Myers. I believe this document will prove to be of great import- ance. * * * What we can take before the Royal Society and challenge the judgment of the world upon is telepathy. Here is the beginning of a wider conception of science. * * * The whole region appears to be in the occupation of savages abandoned to the grossest super- stition. But I say we have got to take the country and rule it for the advantage of mankind. Men as a rule are too nervous to avow any interest in a study which has so long been left in the hands of quacks and impos- tors. But some of them are bound to study it. Every- thing in the world has to be examined." — Sir Oliver Lodge, M. S., D. Sc, Lond., Oxon, and Vict; LL. D. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 63 St. Andrews and Glasgow; Principal of the University of Birmingham; President of the Society for Psychical Research, in the Pall Mall Magazine, London, January, 1904. 137. THE INNER UNIVERSE. In the last few years steps have been taken upward to- ward the boundary line that separates the spirit from matter. The telephone which enables us to hear the voice of a man thousands of miles, the phonograph that photographs the voice, the wireless telegraph which by waves of ether we can converse with each other through space, the kinetoscope that helps us to see events of the past in action. Lord Kelvin has discovered that an atom of matter and an atom of ether may occupy the same space at the same time, and that an electron is so small that it will take one hundred thousand of them to make an atom ; Sir W. Crookes tells us that there is such stupendous energy in the radiations from radium, the newly discovered element, that a few grains of it would suffice to lift the entire English navy two miles. It seems that there is an inner universe, that this inner universe is a stupendous vitalizing force through which run streams of individuality, the inner universe, a network of psychic nerves; touch one, touch all. Thought and feeling vi- brate everywhere. No man lives to himself nor thinks to himself; as waves of light are darting everywhere across the ocean of light-ether and nowhere get confused, each object standing out clearly revealed. So, in that greater and far more refined ocean of thought-ether each thought is clear, distinct to the receiver-mind which is attuned to the transmitter-mind. What next? There 64 EVOLUTION OP TH E HUMAN SOUL may be other forces of which we have never as yet dreamed. 138. DISCARNATE SPIRITS. Do discarnate spirits commune with incarnate spirits? I do not know. I have no proof of this. But some of our greatest scientists in Europe and America who have experimented with and examined psychic phenomena have come to the conclusion that the spirit of the dead do appear and commune with the living in the flesh. 139. FACULTIES OF THE SUBJECTIVE MIND. In the subjective or unconscious mind wonderful facul- ties are revealing themselves, as : Clairvoyance, the power to see independently of the outward organ of the eyes. Clairaudience, the power to hear independently of physical organ of the ears. Telepathy, the power to communicate thought inde- pendently of all physical senses, transcending space. Prevision, the power to transcend time. Telekinesis, the power to influence physical objects without physical contact. Self-Projection, the power of a man to make himself visible at a distance. These faculties and possibly others which are begin- ning to appear, are faculties of the subjective mind or soul which throw a flood of light on many of the phenom- ena that have been heretofore set down as inexplicable or the work of spirits. 140. COSMIC BEINGS. These rudimentary faculties are growing for our next EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 65 stage of evolutionary development, in harmony with the environment of our objective or subjective nature, or both ; and when developed we are passing through an evolution that will make us universal or cosmic beings. But let it not be thought that the revelation of the marvelous capacity of the subjective mind solves the en- tire problem of psychic phenomena. It solves much, but how much remains to be seen. 141. THE DOCTRINE OF SUGGESTION. The doctrine of suggestion was not, until the year 1841, definitely established but it had its predecessors. To Dr. Braid of Manchester, England, is due the discovery of hypnotism. He demonstrated that the hypnotic state and its associated phenomena are purely subjective in the origin which is in the nervous system of the subject itself. The fixation of a brilliant object so that the mus- cles which hold up the upper eyelid becomes fatigued and the concentration of the attention on a single idea brings about the sleep. The subject can create this condition in themselves by their own tensions of mind without be- ing submitted to any influence from without. In this state the imagination becomes so lively that every idea spontaneously developed or suggested by a person to whom the subject gives his or her attention and confi- dence, have the value of an actual representation for him. The of tener these phenomenas are induced the more read- ily and easier they can be induced. Such is the law of association and habit. If the hypnotizer's will is not ex- pressed by his words or by his gestures, or if the subject does not understand them, no phenomena appears. The attitude which is given the hypnotized subject, the posi- 66 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL, tion into which the muscles of his face or limbs are put, may give rise to passions, sentiments and acts correspond- ing to these anatomical attitudes the same as the sugges- tion of certain sentiments or passions may give rise to a correlative mimicked attitude or expression. 142. ORDINARY SLEEP. Ordinary sleep does not differ from hypnotic sleep, it is due to the fixation of the attention and of the nervous force upon the idea of sleep. The person who wishes to sleep isolates his senses, meditates and remains motion- less, the nervous force concentrates itself at one point in the brain upon a single idea and abandons the nerves of sensation, and special sense, and his consciousness is lost. The impressions conducted to his brain by the nerves of sensibility or organic life may awaken diverse memory sensations or images which constitute dreams. These dreams are suggested by himself. 143. THE HYPNOTIZED SUBJECT. The hypnotized subject falls asleep with his thought fixed in relationship with the hynotizer, hence the possi- bility of the suggestion of dreams, ideas and acts of this foreign will. 144. THE LOSS OF MEMORY. The loss of memory on waking from deep hypnotic sleep comes from the fact that all the nervous force col- lected in the brain, during sleep or trance, diffuses itself anew throughout the whole organism when the subject wakes, and this force diminishing in the brain makes it EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 67 impossible for tlie subject to recall what he was conscious of during the trance. 145. LIGHT GRADE OF SLEEP. In light grade of the ordinary or hypnotic sleep the nervous force collected about the seat of the fixed idea is less. The other portions of the nervous system are not as inactive, the dreams are let in by peripheral impres- sions. The waking is not sudden but gradual. The nerv- ous force accumulated in the brain diminishes gradually. And when thought is established it grasps the recollec- tion at the end of the sleep. That is why we remember our dreams in a light grade of sleep. In sound sleep we always dream but can remember nothing. 146. HYPNOTIC STATE. Prof. Carpenter of Boston, placed C — , a graduate of a leading college, in a hypnotic state. The company pres- ent were all cultivated people. C — was an unbeliever in modern spiritualism. The Professor asked him how he should like to have an interview with Socrates. "I should esteem it a great privilege if Socrates were alive," answered C — . The Professor said, "I can invoke his spirit and introduce you to him; there he stands now," pointing toward a corner of the room. C — looked in the direction indicated and at once arose with a look of reverential awe on his countenance. The Professor went through the ceremonial of a formal presentation and C — offered the supposed spirit a chair. Upon being assured by the professor that Socrates was willing and anxious to answer any question that might be put to him C — at once G8 EVOLUTION OF TH E HUMAN SOUL began a series of questions, catechising the Greek -phil- osopher for over two hours, interpreting the answers to the professor as he received them. His questions em- braced the whole cosmogony of the universe and a wide range of spiritual philosophy. The whole was clear, plausible and perfectly consistent with itself and the knowing laws of nature. 147. FAILURE OF TEST QUESTION. At a subsequent gathering C — was placed in a hyp- notic state and a spirit present was asked where he had died. The reply was that he left earth life in a little town near Boston. The fact was that he had lived in this little town and the somnambulist knew it. But he had died in a foreign land, a fact which the somnambulist did not know. Later when in his normal condition C — was informed of the failure of this test question, and was told the man had died in a foreign land. At a subsequent sitting he was again informed of the presence of the same spirit, and he at once manifested the most profound indignation because of the deception which had been practiced upon him by the spirit, and demanded an ex- planation of the falsehood concerning the place of his death. The spirit entered into a philosophical disquisi- tion on the subject of spirit communion, and defined the limitations of spiritual intercourse with the inhabitants of this earth. 148. THE FACT. The fact is, the subjective mind of C — accepted the suggestion of the operator and he believed them to have been imparted to him by a spirit, and the apparition he EVOLUTION OF THE HTJMAX SOUL 69 saw was evolved from his own inner consciousness, his soul. 149. SPE.\KIXG IN UXKXOWIXG TOXGUES. Speaking in unknowing tongues, Coleridge, in his Biographia Literaria, says, "In a Roman Catholic town in Germany a year or two before my arrival at Gottin- gen, a young woman who could neither read nor write was seized with a nervous fever during which, according to the asseverations of the priests and monks of the neighborhood, she became possessed, and as it appeared by a very learned devil. She continued incessantly talk- ing Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, in very authoritative tones, and with most distinct enunciation. This possession was rendered more probable by the known fact that she was, or had been, a heretic. The affair had attracted attention of a young phj'sician, and many eminent physiologists and psychologists visited the town and examined the case. Pages filled with her ravings were taken down and were found to consist of sentences, coherent and intelli- gible, each for itself, but with little or no connection w^ith each other. Of the Hebrew a small portion only could be traced to the Bible, the remainder seemed to be in the Rabbinical dialect. The young physician learned that the patient at nine years old had been taken by a Protestant pastor and remained with him till his death. Our yoimg medical philosopher also discovered a niece of the pastor v.ho had lived with him as his housekeeper. Inquiries were made concerning the pastor's habits and the solution of the phenomenon was soon obtained. It was his custom for years to walk up and down a passage of his house, into which the kitchen door opened, and to 70 EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL read to himself with a loud voice out of his favorite books. Among the books w^ere found a collection of Rabbinical writings besides works of the Greek and Latin Fathers. The physician succeeded in identifying many passages from the books with those taken down at the young woman's bedside that no doubt could remain in any rational mind concerning the true origin of the im- pressions made on her nervous system. 150. THE RECORD UPON THE SUBJECTIVE MIND. The result demonstrated that the record upon the sub- jective mind was ineffaceable. The mental feats of trans- speakers are easily explained without invoking the aid of spirits or any supernatural agent. Speaking in unknown tongues is merely a feat of subjective memory. 151. OPERATION OF NATURAL LAWS. The subjective mind records all that man has ever seen, heard or read, and under abnormal conditions, in obedience to suggestion, all its treasures are available, but we may rest assured that the phenomena are the results of the operations of natural laws. Other similar phen- omena are recorded by the trustworthy scientific ob- servers. 152. OLD TIME PROPHETS. The old time prophets were habitually in a state of ecstasy or trance, in which their objective minds were in abeyance, and the powers of their souls, the subjective minds, were developed. In this state Daniel was thrown into the lions' den with the result recorded. We can accept this story as literally true when one recalls the EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 71 experiments made in Paris. A young lady was hypno- tized and placed in a den of lions ; she had no fear of the lions and the lions paid no attention to her. 153. THE ADEPTS OF INDIA. The adepts of India and inferior priests of the Bud- dhistic faith display their power by entering the jungles infested by tigers and remain all night with no weapon save the God-given dynamic power of the soul. CHAPTER V. Keligious Frenzy. 154. partridge's conversion. Mr. A. T. Partridge, a citizen of St. Paul, Minnesota, narrates the following incident in his life: "I attended a prayer meeting once and was praying earnestly for myself. The voice of God had thundered in my ears at previous times. On this particular occa- sion a total darkness came over me and for some min- utes the darkness became so intense that I cried in dis- tress to God to deliver me from this condition or take my life. I saw a ray of light in the distance. I groped on my hands and knees toward it and the darkness grad- ually faded away like mist- and it was all light about me, as though I saw heaven filled with people, some of whom were singing, some shouting, and some kneeling and praying. O, what glory filled my whole being. It brought about a complete change in my life. I sold my diamonds and gave the proceeds to the poor and I sought in every way to atone for my wrong doing with others." The above was written by consent of the party in ques- tion, with whom I am personally acquainted and know to be a man of truth and veracity. The fact is, he was in a state of ecstasy, excessive joy, rapture, enthusiasm — a total darkness came over him, his objective mind was partly in abeyance ; his subjective mind (his soul) took command of his whole body and the voices he heard came from his own inner conscience ; (his soul) the apparitions he saw in heaven and the light EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 73 he saw in the room, came from the same source ; all were evolved or created in his own subjective mind and appar- ently projected out into the room. 155. Saul's conversion. Saul's conversion, Acts 9-3-6, was similar to that of Mr. Partridge. While Saul maintained that he had seen the Lord, yet in the history of his conversion he speaks only of internal revelation. Religious enthusiasts are by nature prone to ecstasy ; they hear voices and believe they come from heaven, not knowing that they come from their own voices speaking within their own sublimical selves. 156. JOSEPH SMITH, THE MORMON PROPHET. Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, began in youth to reflect upon the importance of being prepared for a fu- ture life. He describes how he went from one religious denomination to another but could find nothing satisfac- tory, nothing but clashings in religious sentiment. Then he withdrew into secret places to spend time in prayer and meditation and to receive angelic visits. On September 21, 1823, he was praying earnestly when it seemed as though the house was filled with flames of fire out of which emerged a being who proclaimed itself to be an angel sent from the Lord. The bright being informed Smith that his prayers had been heard and his sins were forgiven. The angel appeared to Smith thereafter many times. There is most satisfactory evidence to show that from an early period he was regarded as a visionary and a fanatic by his enemies. This fact is of the utmost im- portance as it affords a clue to his real character and an explanation of that otherwise unaccountable tenacity of 74 EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL purpose and moral heroism displayed in the midst of fierce persecution. A mere imposter, that is, a person who did not believe in his own mission, but who on the contrary felt he was simply the liar and fraud that peo- ple called him, would have broken down under such a tempest of opposition and hate as Smith's preaching ex- cited. He was fiercely attacked by the leaders and preach- ers of other religious denominations and personally as- saulted, but he kept his ground stubbornly, argued well his views, and when argument failed had recourse to a style of zealous prophetic asseveration which is generally irresistible with weak and ignorant people. When the orthodox preachers could not bafHe him in speech, they sought to fill the minds of their hearers with fierce ani- mosity against the new leader and his doctrines. Smith was no doubt honest, and fully believed the ap- paritions he saw were angels sent from God who had appointed him a prophet. He was merely a religious en- thusiast, a visionary who habitually lived in a state of ecstasy. The apparitions he saw were evolved in his own subjective mind and the voices came from the same mind by false suggestions from his own objective intelligence. Ancient and modern prophets, seers, revelaters, religious enthusiasts and spiritualistic mediums, all come under the same category. 157. POLYGAMY. It is generally conceded the Mormon doctrine of polyg- amy came from Brigham Young and his associates — Piatt, Hyde, Kimball and others. Polygamy is just as pure in Utah as it could have been in the Promised Land of Bible times. It was born of the lust and makes of man a beast, and woman a slave. EVOLUTION OF THE HUilAN SOUL 75 158. A YOUNG LADY IN A TRANCE. During a tent meeting, a young lady while engaged in fervent prayer, was suddenly seen to waver and fall prone upon her face. An investigation proved that she was unconscious. She was taken out in the open air and cared for by friends until she awoke two hours and a half later shouting for joy. The young maiden unhesitatingly states that her spirit went to heaven and that all the glories awaiting the right- eous and the horrors of hell were shown her; that the Lord, three angels and herself partook of the communion supper on the banks of Jordan river, and that she there re- ceived divine directions to finish her course in the High School, after which she was to go to college and then enter the mission field in South Africa. She will follow the direction as divine commands. The people present implicity believed in the truth of her statement. The fact is, the mind of the young lady was full of re- ligious thought and in her fervent prayer overstrained her nervous system and went into a state of frenzied dis- traction of mind and delirium which produced comatose, and in that state her dream was suggested by her objec- tive mind to her subjective mind, and that mind believed it as an absolute verity, that same mind evolved and created the apparitions she saw, the Lord, the angels, herself and the communion supper on the banks of the Jordan river, and there received what she thought was divine command. There is no doubt she is honest and that she saw and heard all she said and fully believed it came from the Lord. But it came from her own self, her soul, The trance, or sleep, must have been in a light 76 EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL grade. If she had been fully asleep she would have re- membered nothing. 159. A MODERN FAKIR. Dowie, the founder of the Christian Catholic Church at Zion and self termed prophet Elijah III. He claimed to be the restorer and first apostle sent from God to earth to announce the second coming of Christ. The. people intrusted their money and entire lives to his keeping. It is estimated that he squandered $2,500,000 of his sub- jects' money. He lived in oriental style. He went to New York to convert the people. Dressed in the $1,200 raiment of Elijah, he ranted and raved like a madman at the revivals, but all in vain. He went back home curs- ing New York in rather more picturesque and effective terms than he had ever before invented. Mrs. Martha Wilson was denied the right to insure her home in Zion City, on the ground that it was not right to gamble on the Lord's will. The house burned and the woman and her children were left destitute. The good people of Zion raised $2,000 by popular subscription. This money was paid into the church and not one cent was afterward paid to the woman for whom it was given. The Wilson case caused the first intense wave of hatred for Dowie to spring up in the community, but no word of protest against the holy prophet was raised by the Zion- ites or by Mrs. Wilson herself; they dared not approach the holy man on that subject. Dowie began to spread the poison of his polygamous teachings insidiously through the pages of his weekly magazine. He had oriental leanings. The harems of the oriental princes, of King Solomon, Mohammed and EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL 77 of Brigham Young came like a panorama before him. He said the Bible nowhere forbade bigamy, and that in heaven every man would have more than one wife. He quoted the verse from the fourth chapter of Isaiah. It runs as follows : — "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, we shall eat our bread and wear our own apparel, only let us wear your name to take away our reproach." Dowie was to take seven wives who were to be known as vestal virgins. They were to be dressed in long white robes with their unbound hair hanging down their backs and come marching in after the high priest at every service. The secret chamber of the Shiloh house was hinted to be the beginning of the long-rumored harem of the holy man. His faithful wife caused at least two women to be kept out of their house. There were scandalous doings in the Shiloh House, the prophet's dinner on one occa- sion. The glee club from the Zion College was instructed to report at the prophet's house at nine in the evening and all others in the community were ordered to retire at that hour. The singers arrived on time and saw through the open windows, the dining room of the divine ruler, decorated extravagantly. The party included a number of women, and the menu was embellished with much Swiss wine. The trembling glee club gazed upon this scene of forbidden revelry and at a signal from Dowie burst into the most appropriate song they knew. In a fit of rage the holy man informed the musicians that they were rotten, and forthwith ordered them home. Voliva, the new leader, found a little book of cartoons 78 EVOLUTION OP THE HU MAN SOUL in the prophet's library so filthy that he remarked, "I should blush to tell a party of men what it represented." For this work of art the apostle of purity had paid $600 to a London bookseller. To show the real character of the man Dowie, we take his own words. He said on the witness stand before a federal judge, "I have dreamed of Zion all my days. When but a little fellow I saw a sacred city afar off and have never lost sight of it. Now it is a part of me." He explained to the judge, the scene of his greatest tri- umph, the witness of his lowest fall. The fact is Dowie, the self-styled divine and temporal ruler of Zion, was by nature a dreamer. He lived in ecstasy and luxury, and was a bigot and a visionary. His people gave their money into his hands which he spent lavishly upon himself and when they suffered for want of food and shelter, it did not trouble his conscience. He was devoid of sympathy ; he was inhuman, unfeeling, merciless; with no consideration for others. He was drunk with his own power. His career came to an end. Many were the men and women who had served the holy man, the founder of their faith, without daring to whim- per. These good people had been in dreamland, but now came to their senses and began to think for themselves. They took the divine and temporal power out of his hands and, publicly renouncing their allegiance to him, accused him of almost every crime on the calendar. This religious fakir and spendthrift has gambled with the people's conscience and squandered their money. Let us be charitable to this man for he may not be re- sponsible for most of his acts, he may have incipient insanity. He was not any different from most of the ancient and modern potentates and divine rulers. Fren- EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL 79 zied religion has caused some of the most abominable crimes the world has ever witnessed; it has made bigots and tyrants of the rulers and simpletons of their follow- ers. These divine rulers of men's conscience catch the unwary, the weak minded, and make them believe any- thing that their distorted mind may fancy. They will not allow their subjects to do their own thinking and some of these fakirs collect for the Lord ten per cent of the hard earned money of their dupes and dress in ex- pensive raiment to impress veneration for themselves. It is all done for effect and is unessential to religion. Some say religious people are decreasing but I con- tend religion of humanity is increasing. There is an activity of the good people to ameliorate the condition of those less fortunate than themselves. Every time a man or woman has a good thought let them help some one do a kind and merciful act, and by sacrificing themselves for the good of another they are practicing the highest religion that can enter the human mind. l6o. KEY TO THEOSOPHY. Indifference to pleasure and pain. Giving up everything that one loves. Renunciation of self. Unswerving patience and forgiveness under the most trying persecution. Truth under all trials. Cultivation of will power. Supreme indifference to praise and blame. l6l. THE CENTRAL THOUGHT. The central thought of this philosophy is that the uni- 80 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL verse is in its essence spiritual, that man is a spiritual being in a state of evolution and development, and that by proper physical, mental and spiritual training, human- ity can so progress on this path of evolution as to de- velop faculties and powers which will enable it to get behind the outward veil of matter and to enter into conscious relations with the underlying reality. This was the tenet of Jesus, Buddha and other founders of great religions. But ancient and modern miracle mon- gers crept in, professional theosophists claimed to per- form miracles similar to certain spiritualistic mediums, who apparently caused flowers, letters and fruit to ap- pear suddenly in mid-air and also worked other fantastic wonders. 162. THE PRIESTESS. The priestess of the American theosophists has es- tablished a freakish court at Point Loma, California, such as has never been on a comic opera stage, and com- pels her subjects to wear long gowns and ridiculous hats, and humble themselves before her in a way that sensible people can hardly conceive of. So says Dr. J. Anderson, President of the Point Loma Universal Brotherhood. In some manner — no one knows how — ^the priestess is as much of a power amongst her followers as Dowie Elijah used to be almost his. Ancient oriental mysticism seems to be a great part of their religion. They are doing good work in the education of Cuban children and others, of whom many are taken to the colony on Point Loma, cared for and given high class instruction. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 81 163. CEREMONIES. But we also find similar mystic, weird, dreary, thea- trical, foolish and laughable religious ceremonies in the court of Pagan and Christian state religion where the kings and potentates claim appointment from the court of Heaven. All this is unessential to religion ; it is done for effect. CHAPTER VI. Miracles. 164. PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN MIRACLES. Christians claim that God endowed their saints with power to perform the miracles related in their lives. Some of the Pagans claim also that the daughter of Anius, high priest of Apollo, received from the god Bac- chus the power to change wheat into wine or oil, and do many other marvels. 165. MOSES. Moses forced a stream of water to flow from a rock by striking it with his staff. The horse Pegasus did the same thing by striking a rock with his foot. 166. CHRIST. If Christ was miraculously born of a virgin, the Pagans had said before them, that Remus and Romulus, the founders of Rome, were miraculously born of a vestal virgin, and that Minerva, goddess of the science, sprang from Jupiter's brain, and that she came out of it full fledged by means of a blow which this god gave to his own head. 167. ST. VINCENT FERRIER. If St. Vincent Ferrier brought to life a dead man, hacked into pieces, whose body was already half roasted, Pelops, son of Tantalus, king of Phrygia, was brought to life after having been torn to pieces by his father, to be sacrificed to the gods. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 83 l68. ANGELS BUILT A CHAPEL. If the angels built a chapel for St. Clement at the bottom of the sea of Philemon, it was miraculously changed into a superb temple as a reward of his piety. If several of their saints, as St. James and St. Maurice appeared at various times in their armies, mounted and equipped in ancient style and fought for them. Castor and Pollux appeared several times in battles and fought for the Romans against their enemies. If the Christians having received images from heaven miraculously, the Pagans boasted before them of having received a sacred shield as a mark of the preservation of their city of Rome, they also boasted of having received miraculously from heaven their Palladium or their idol of Pallas. 169. SIMILARITY BETWEEN PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN MIRACLES. There is a great similarity between Pagan miracles and our own. As it would be great folly to give cre- dence to those pretended miracles of Paganism, is it not any the less so to have faith in those of ours because they all come from the same source of error? It was for this that the Manicheans and the Arians, who existed at the commencement of the Christian era, derided these pretended miracles performed by the invocation of saints and blamed those who invoked them after death and honored their relics. 170. INTELLIGENT MAN. No intelligent man would now be willing to see any of the great discoveries of modern science eliminated 84 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUl; from the world's stock of knowledge. The Roman Cath- olic would not return to the Ptolemaic system of as- tronomy although his church fought the Copernican sys- tem for two hundred years. Martin Luther denounced the author of gravity because he thought his theory took the universe out of the hands of God and placed it in the custody of a law. No one would now consent to part with his knowledge of Geology and his confidence of the rock. CHAPTER VII. Suspended Animation. 171. CATALEPSY. Catalepsy, suspended animation from hypnotic sugges- tion, self induced Catalepsy, epidemic Catalepsy differ from one another only in the causes which induce the condition. The last named arises from fear that he or she feels the mental suggestion, that they may be the next victims. Self induced Catalepsy is illustrated in the experiments of East Indian fakirs, and arises from auto suggestion. Runjeet Singh of Lahore suffered himself to be buried alive in an air-tight vault for six weeks. He was placed in a securely locked wooden box, which was deposited in a brick vault, plastered up with mortar and sealed with the Rajah's seal. A guard of British soldiers were detailed to watch the dirt filled vault day and night. At the end of six weeks, the vault was opened in the presence of Sir Claude, the British Resi- dent, and the fakir was restored to consciousness. Other cases are related by British officers in India, in all of which the subjects were in perfect health when the ex- periments were made and in each case when the body was disinterred found to present all the characteristics indicating death except decomposition. 172. A LADY SUPERINTENDENT. The lady superintendent of an orphan asylum in a western city, while in a state of Catalepsy, had been pronounced dead by the attending physician. In pre- 8C EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL paring the body for burial it was accidentally pricked by a pin and a small drop of blood ensued and she was soon after resuscitated. She declared that she had never for a moment lost consciousness, and that she knew of all the tests which were applied to her but felt the utmost indifference as to results, and was neither surprised nor alarmed when it was decided that she was dead. 173. BISHOP. Washington Irving Bishop, the celebrated mind read- er, was in a Cataleptic state. His friends and relatives declared he was not dead before the surgeon's knife penetrated his brain and killed him. On several previous occasions he had been in a cataleptic state resembling death. 174. CATALEPSY NOT A DISEASE. Catalepsy is not a disease, but a crisis in certain dis- eases, a supreme effort of nature to give the exhausted nerves their needed rest. The primary mistake many physicians make by a heroic treatment to hasten restora- tion to consciousness. If the attempt is successful, it causes a fearful shock to the nerves and the effort is thwarted which nature is making to relieve the patient and give rest to his already overstrained nervous system. If the treatment is unsuccessful, the patient is threatened with the dangers of being buried alive, or an autopsy. These dangers are ever present, and as long as physicians fail to recognize the fact that an advanced state of decom- position of the vital organs is the only infallible test of death just so long will the human race be menaced with the horrors of being buried alive. The soul cannot leave EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 87 the body permanently as long as the vital organs are perfect. A great many cases of suspended animation have been reported, varying in duration from a few hours to many months. 175. CATALEPSY INDUCED. Catalepsy, induced by disease or nervous exhaustion, is amenable to control by the law of suggestion, pre- cisely as he or she is in the ordinary hypnotic trance. Time should be given nature to do its work. Cases have been known where patients have returned to conscious- ness in obedience to the law of suggestion when sugges- tion has filled their souls with the subjective faith. It was always the subjective faith which Jesus implanted in the patient's soul, whether in healing or calling the dead to life, as in suspended animation. 176. VAMPIRISM. The ancient belief in Vampirism probably had its ori- gin in discovered cases of suspended animation. One Arnold Paul's body was exhumed after it had been buried forty days. It was found that his hair, nails and beard had grown again, in his veins was fluid blood and no decomposition had taken place. This was held by his judges to be evidence of guilt, and in punishment there- for a stake was driven through his heart, whereat he uttered loud cries and fresh blood gushed from his mouth. His judge then said he could no more suck the blood of the living and continue to live on in the grave. This process laid the vampire ghost efifectually. 177. REVIVES DURING AUTOPSY. Revived during Autopsy. In the summer of 1905, 88 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL Louis Viel surprised several physicians and nurses at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, by suddenly re- gaining life shortly after the beginning of a post mortem examination. The surgeon happened to take hold of the supposedly dead man's heart and pinch it slightly — al- most instantly the organ began to throb at a natural rate, The incisions made were quickly closed. Viel regained consciousness a few hours later and in due time was able to leave the hospital a well man. 178. INFALLIBLE TEST OF DEATH. The human body should not be buried or cremated be- fore it is fully dead. Death is not sudden, it takes time for the molecules to separate and cease their vital energy in the body and disperse. When that is accomplished the body including all the vital organs will decompose or mortify and the body is dead. This is the only true and infallible test of death. 179. PREMATURE BURIAL. The following cases of suspended animation are quoted as English statistics : Persons buried alive 140 Narrow escapes from being buried alive.. 210 Dissected alivei 10 Narrow escape from dissection alive 3 Embalmed alive 2 Cremated alive i Each one of these cases has been certified by a medi- cal man of standing. The society for the Prevention of Premature Burial will soon ask the Parliament for speedy legislation in burial reform. One of the strongest sup- EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 89 porters of the movement is Archdeacon Colley, who was nearly buried alive in infancy. Mortuaries should be erected where bodies should be placed for a time to make sure of death instead of being interred at once in a grave or cremated before the life of the body is extinct. CHAPTER mil. Healing by Suggestion and Telepathy. l8o. HEALING BY SUGGESTION. Jairus, one of the rulers of the synagogue, besought Jesus to come to his house and heal his daughter who was at the point of death. "I pray thee come and lay thy hands on her that she may be healed and she shall live." "While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house a certain one who said, 'Thy daughter is dead, why troublest thou the master any further.' " "As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, 'Be not afraid, only believe.' " "And he suffered no man to follow him save Peter and James and John the brother of James." "And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the syna- gogue and seeth the tumult and them that wept and wailed greatly." "And when he was come in he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado and weep, the damsel is not dead but sleepeth.' " "And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entered in where the damsel was laying." "And he took the damsel by the hand and said unto her, 'Talitha cumi, which is interpreted, 'Damsel, I say unto thee arise.' " EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 91 "And Straightway the damsel arose and walked, for she was of the age of twelve years, and they were as- tonished with a great astonishment." "And he charged them strictly that no man should know it and commanded that something should be given her to eat." The fact is, Jesus prohibited the unbelievers from ap- proaching the house from which he excluded the friends and relatives, he knowing full well the adverse influence of doubt. He took the same three disciples, to whom he had taught the esoteric science, with him for the purpose of surrounding the patient's soul with an atmosphere of faith. He knew the fears of the friends and relatives would operate as a strong adverse suggestion to the soul of the patient. He then filled the departing soul with the subjective faith to enable him to command it to return to the body. It may only have been a case of suspended animation. He used the same expression in regard to Lazarus, and afterwards explained his meaning that Lazarus was dead. It is claimed by the Eastern adepts that as long as the vital organs of the body are perfect it is always possible to compel the soul to return to the body. l8l. HEALING BY TELEPATHY. Jesus healed the nobleman's son at Capernaum without his objective knowledge — he was in the habit of healing when he was at a distance from the patient — an act now known as absent treatment or telepathy. The noble- man met Jesus at Cania and he sought him to heal his son who was at the point of death. Without going near the patient, Jesus said to the nobleman, "Go thy way, thy 92 EVOLUTION OF T HE HUMAN SOUL son liveth." It was ascertained afterwards that at the same time the fever left the patient. 182. FAITH IS THE LAW OF SUGGESTION. Jesus understood the law of telepathy and the law of suggestion. He was the first to discover the law, for the word faith is the whole law of suggestion. The internal evidence of the truth is now demonstrated in what is now known of the law of mental healing. Faith and the means of acquiring it is the substance of all that he taught his disciples of the means of healing the sick. He said it was all they could bear. It was the exoteric doctrine of mental healing. The esoteric science he promised mankind should assist them to discover it by the spirit of truth. His works were performed within the domain of the same natural laws which limit the powers of all mankind. He did not hesitate to use material remedies when he thought it necessary. The Christian scientists can make no greater mistake when they will not allow their patients who have faith in the physician's skill to use material remedies. 183. THE INTUITIVE POWER OF PERCEPTION. The miraculous conception and birth of Jesus I will leave to the theologian. He was merely a man that dif- fered from other men only in the degree of his faculties, the intuitive power of perception of the laws of the soul in its relations to the physical world and to God. He operated only within the domain of natural law. He even avowed and proclaimed that fact to the world. Jesus employed his subjective powers in their legitimate domain and never suffered himself to be tempted to allow them to usurp the throne of his reason. CHAPTER IX. Dynamic Power and Attributes of the Soul. 184. SPIRITUAL PENALTIES. The objective power of reason was given man to enable him to train his soul for eternity, to work out his own salvation. "God will render to every man according to his deeds," Romans 11. 6. When the soul is released from the body and its objective environment, it will be enabled to perceive all the laws of its being, to see God as he is by the perception of the laws he has instituted. It is knowledge of this power which demonstrates our true relationship to God, it confers our inheritance of rightful share of his attributes and power, our heirship of God and our joint heirship with Jesus Christ. A violation of the belief in the fundamental law of the soul's existense, the penalty for which, is according to fixed laws of nature, and consists of a denial of the soul's existence and its Father God. This is in accord- ance with the fundamental law of suggestion as it has been scientifically demonstrated to exist. The persistent denial of the soul's existence must prove to be a sugges- tion so strong as to overcome its instinctive belief in its existence and neutralize its instinctive desire for immortal life. The soul could not have a consciousness of its own existence or immortality. Can a segregated portion of the divine essence once individualized perish with the power and potency of immortal life? It may be true that reincarnation is the process of the soul's evolution, that reincarnation ceases when the soul reaches the status 94 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL of a conscious existence as the necessity for further re- incarnation no longer exists. The teachings of Jesus have been confirmed by the induction of science that the violation of the laws of spiritual existence is followed by inevitable spiritual penalties. We know the nature and attributes of the soul as exhibited through phenomena, it is the seat of emotion. It is capable of being punished or rewarded through the natural affections, and it pos- sesses the inherent power of perception of the natural laws and the God ordained principles of right and wrong. After its release from the body, it will be able to estimate the value of every good deed and realize the infamy of every wrong. 185. JESUS PROCLAIMED THE LAW. Jesus had an intuitive perception of the laws of heal- ing by subjective faith and his knowledge of the laws of healing was scientifically correct. He practiced by the best methods known at the present time. Jesus pro- claimed the law that belief and faith in the existence and immortality of our own soul was a condition precedent to immortal life. 186. SALVATION IN THE NEXT LIFE. Of the doctrine of future reward and punishment Jesus said little. He taught men how to conduct their lives in this world as to entitle them to salvation in the next life. God will render to every man according to his deeds. That would be in accord with the highest human conceptions of the character of a God of Love, Mercy and Justice. EVOLUTION OF THE' HUMAN SOUL 95 187. JESUS WAS A PERFECT MAN. Jesus was a perfect man, his full moral character and attributes — his subjective mind — were always under the perfect control of his reason. 188. MAN IS A FREE MORAL AGENT. Some people realize the power and attributes of the hu- man soul but fail to understand its necessary limitations. While it is imprisoned in the body it is limited and con- trolled by its objective environment, amenable to control by the powers of suggestion, and is limited in its power of reasoning. Why is it that God has given to man a soul possessing such transcendent powers in certain directions and yet under absolute control of the objective mind? Why, to constitute man a free moral agent. If the soul were not limited of reasoning power the mortal man could not be held responsible for the moral status of his soul. He has it in his power to train his soul for weal or woe, for this life and for eternity. The soul is the seat of passion and emotion ; uncontrolled by objective reason it runs riot at the bidding of every immoral sug- gestion. The objective power of reason was given to man to enable him to train his soul for eternity — ^to work out his own salvation. After the soul is freed from the body it will continue to live forever. 189. BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY. Belief in the immortality of the soul is not atonement for the sins of the wicked. A man may believe in Christ's teachings of immortality and at the same time be steeped in all manner of wickedness and crime, knowing his ab- 96 EVOLUTION OF TH E HUMAN SOUL horrence of all crime and wickedness and the punishment as a consequence of sin. " 190. NATURE CONCEALS GOD. Nature conceals God. Man alone reveals him. In the phenomena of mind alone there can be found no evi- dence of the existence of an intelligence antecedent in the structure of the material universe nor any evidence of the immortality of the soul. 191. EVOLUTIONISTS. Evolutionists tell us that the tendency of organized nature from the beginning has been toward the creation of man. As the ultimate goal of organic evolution is the creation of the body of man, also is the ultimate goal of psychic evolution the creation of the immortal soul. 192. THE INSTINCT OF THE BRUTE. The subjective faculties of the brute are limited to those primary instincts which pertain wholly to the perpetua- tion of the species and belong exclusively to the phy- sical plane. The subjective mind of man is endowed with intellectual faculties which far transcend those of the objective intellect, some of which perform no normal functions on the physical plane. The creation of the physical and the psychical man is the goal toward which nature has tended from the beginning. It was through the processes of evolution that both body and soul were created. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 97 193. ANIMALS HAVE NO CONSCIOUSNESS. Animals can have no consciousness of the possession of a soul, nor can the soul be conscious of itself in ab- sence of any suggestion or information convej'ed to it by objective education. Jesus drew the line between man and brute on strictly scientific principles, when he pro- claimed the law that belief and faith in the immortality of the soul — was the essential prerequisite to the attain- ment of immortal life. Faith in the psychic sense which Jesus employed is conscious potentiality; it is the pow£r of the soul. All psychic phenomena demonstrate that proposition. Without it there can be no psychic phenome- na. Beyond the exercise of the animal instinct suggestion, whether it be oral suggestion, silent suggestion or tele- pathy, alone can awaken it into existence. All the emo- tions that impart joy or sorrow find their origin and seat in the subjective mind, and their normal activity gives joy and happiness, and perverted they are the prolific source of sorrow and misery. The subjective mind is the seat of emotion and has a higher function to perform in the next life where perversion is impossible. Love which man bears to his fellow man, will not be blotted out of existence when the brain ceases to perform its functions. The soul performs it independently of the brain, the soul grows stronger as the brain grows weak- er, the strongest observable manifestations occur in the hour of death. The existence of those emotions in the soul is evidence that there will exist in the life to come, means for their exercise and memory of every deed done in the body. 98 EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAJ^ SOUL 194. TELEPATHY BELONGS TO THE SOUL. Telepathy belongs to the subjective mind or soul. It performs no normal function in this life. It is only un- der abnormal condition the phenomena is observed. It is the communion under abnormal condition in this life. It will be the communion in the next life under normal conditions. 195. Christ's spiritual supremacy. As the true theory of organic evolution is better un- derstood it becomes more evident that evolution is God's method of creation. With this understanding came higher conception of the true nature and character of God than had ever before prevailed. God was seen to be a being of infinite intelligence and power, of creating and governing the universe by his own immutable laws. Many people who could have accepted the fact of Christ's spiritual supremacy, who admired his moral teachings and his exalted character, have derisively rejected the story of his miracles. When one realizes the immut- ability of the laws of nature, skepticism is implanted in his mind and miracles are relegated to the domain of fable and superstition. The Churches have provoked skepticism by the constant iteration that Jesus wrought his works in defiance of natural laws. Scientific investi- gations have revealed that the so-called miracles of Jesus can be experimentally reproduced. The laws which gov- erned the production of his phenomena are now under- stood. Jesus never claimed to perform his work outside of natural laws. He taught his disciples how to repro- duce his phenomena and He proclaimed to the world EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 99 the conditions to their reproduction and declared that his followers should do even greater work than he had done. 196. TELEPATHY IN INDIA. The universal spirit is omnipresent in man. It is tele- pathy. We find in the subjective faculties of man, with- out a change in the essential nature, the embryotic rep- resentatives of all that the finite mind can conceive of the essential attributes of God. As our soul is an atom — so to speak — of the universal spirit it follows that telepathy is a natural consequence. It has been known in India before telegraph was invented, that after an English battle with the natives, they would know the results of the contest in an instant several hundred miles away, be- fore the English could communicate with their friends. This communication must have been by telepathy. 197. JOHN ON THE ISLE OF PATMOS. John, on the Isle of Patmos, was a religious enthusiast, and in a trance when he wrote his revelation. His ob- jective mind was in abeyance and his subjective mind — his soul — ^took command of his whole body. His objec- tive mind was filled with thought which was suggested to his subjective mind, and it accepted it as an absolute verity and used his muscles and hand as a medium to write the message. The inspiration came from his own inner conscience — his soul — and not from without. He would be known in this day as a trance writer. 198. EVOLUTION OF THE SPIRITUAL MAN. The evolution of the spiritual man, the same as the animal man, goes on until perfection is reached, until 100 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL all humanity reaches the altitude of spiritual develop- ment attained by Jesus and others who have lived per- fect lives. Jesus, through his intuitional perception, promulgated his pure and simple code of moral philos- ophy and religion which is the real and essential Chris- tianity, and not the huge mass of theological doctrines evolved by the fathers nor of the later teachers of the church. A system of theology has been erected which bears no resemblance to true Christianity. As civiliza- tion progresses, man will be released from the thraldom of dogma and creed and revert to the pure and simple teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. His doctrine works out our salvation and proclaims the universal brotherhood of all mankind with charity, peace, love, the immortality of the soul, and the fatherhood of God. He assured us of a future life and science confirms his word. He said the meek shall inherit the earth, and the time is approach- ing when there will be universal peace on earth^aiyi good will to all mankind. 199. HYPNOTISM AN EXACT SCIENCE. Hypnotism has come to be an exact science. The dis- covery of hypnotism and cognate phenomena constitute a great part of our knowledge of the evolution of the soul of man. That the soul is a part of the essence of God, individualized and indestructible, an ever living entity, has been scientifically demonstrated. Science can- not go beyond this life. I know as much about the next life as anybody else, and that is, I know nothing. But I do know the soul of man will live beyond the grave. Can it be possible God will let the sinner suffer the ter- rible pain of remorse eternally for his sins done in the EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 101 body? It is not in accordance with the immutable laws of nature, neither is it in accordance with a God of love, mercy and justice, to be excluded from the presence of God forever. Reincarnation may be God's plan to lead the soul to perfection. All nature tends in that direction. 200. F. W- ROBERTSON. The great English preacher, F. W. Robertson, in dis- cussing the theme of Christian progress by oblivion of the past, says: "It is impossible to escape the liberal scientific teaching that the mind is only an instrument of the soul and when it decays with the body the soul retains of its earthly possession only what has sunk down into the character." CHAPTER X. Pre-existence Transmigration. 201. WAS JESUS A REINCARNATION OF KING DAVID? Was Jesus a reincarnation of King David? The peo- ple who knew of the works he performed took it for granted that he was a reincarnation of one of the seers or prophets of olden times. They indulged in specula- tions as to which of these he might be. The interest centered in his being a seer and wonder worker from which it was inferred that these powers were brought over from a past incarnation. Jesus said, "Who do the crowd say that I am?" He made no comment on the popular belief in reincarnation and by his silence sealed it with his approval. Belief in reincarnation in the time of Jesus was almost universal, in all the so-called Pagan religions. It is nowhere denied, disputed or questioned in the New Testament. If it were a false doctrine it would undoubtedly have come in for the same denuncia- tions that were hurled against idolatry, sorcery and ma- terialism. Luke I. 31-33. "And behold thou shall conceive and bring forth a son and shall call his name Jesus. He shall be great and shall be called the son of the highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for- ever and of his kingdom there shall be no end." Jesus is to be given the throne of his father David in the spiritual world since the soul or true self of David was to be incarnated in him. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 103 Jesus said he was not the son of David in a material sense. David called his own spiritual self his master, that same self having incarnated in Jesus. He was alike the son of that master and the son of David. If the real self of David was distinct from that of Jesus, the latter could not be David's son. Matthew xxii ; 41- 45 ; Mark xii : 35-37 ; Luke xx : 41-44. David's key is the power to correlate the two worlds to open or close the door between them, and the open door leads to final emancipation from incarnation. The root of David is the ever-living self, the offspring is the last, the perfect man who has emerged from the spheres returning with added knowledge and power to the realm of true being. Revelation iii : 7, 8, 9 ; i : 12, 18 ; xxii : 16. Jesus differed from many sons and brothers only in being older and a pattern for others. Like the rest he is made perfect and all pass into divine radiance where they have attained the right conduct according to a divine plan of many incarnations throughout the evolutionary periods, the hierarchies of souls, their leaders and au- thorities making for a destined goal. Hebrews ii: 10; Romans xiii: 28-30; Ephesians iii: 9-1 1. 202. PUNISHMENT FOR ADAM's SINS. The doctrine of punishment for Adam's sins has taken the place of transmigration of souls and the expiation in the way of all sin committed in earlier life. Both identify the existing man with one who existed before; the transmigration of souls does so directly, original sin indirectly. 104 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 203. THE TALMUD. In the Talmud is related that Abel's soul passed into the body of Seth and then into that of Moses. 204. ESPOUSAL OF REINCARNATION. Henry Ward Beecher and Phillips Brooks preached pre-existence. James Freeman Clark speaks in its favor also do Professor William Knight of St. Andrew's and Professor Francis Brown of Harvard University. Dr. Edward Beecher's espousal of reincarnation in the form of pre-existence in the conflict of ages and the concord of ages. I could mention thousands of other Christians who believe in reincarnation. 205. ORTHODOX FATHERS. Many of the orthodox fathers preached reincarnation. It was an essential part of the church philosophy for many centuries in the Christian thought, being stamped with the authority of the leading thinkers of Christendom, and then gradually was frowned upon, as the Western influence predominated, until it became heresy and at length survived only in a few scattered sects. CHAPTER XI. Ancient Philosophy. 206. THE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS. The Greek philosophers, reasoning upon immortahty, asserted the eternity of the soul in order to vindicate its immortality. They were certain of their existence and it was impossible that they could have had a temporal be- ginning. They held as nothing which has been could have originated from nothingness, and they were certain of their existence. It was impossible they could have had a temporal beginning. The present life must be only one stage of a vast number of backward and for* ward movements. 207. THE LOVE OF PROLONGED LIFE. The love of a prolonged life, the analogy of nature, the prevailing belief of the most spiritual mind, the per- manence of the ego, the inconceivability of annihilation or of creation from nothing, are all indications of im- mortality and point to an eternity preceding this exist- ence. 208. PHILOSOPHERS IN THE EAST. Philosophers in the East saw an analogy between the gathering of the material of which the body of man consists, from the vast store of matter in nature, its final restoration to that store and the emanation of the spirit of man from the universal intellect, the divinity. Bacon says man does understand so much as he may have dis- 106 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL cerned concerning the order of nature by observing or meditating on facts. He is the minister and interpreter of nature. 209. IGNORANCE OF PSYCHIC LAWS. Ignorance of psychic laws has placed Gods upon the throne of heaven, possessing all the frailties, weaknesses and passions common to mankind. It has filled the earth with miracles and peopled it with spirits and ghosts. Psychic laws and phenomena have been misunderstood. Science has removed the domain of the supernatural. The fact is, the existence of the one eternal uncreated energy, back of all phenomena, are only natural mani- festations. The real man is the soul and has a temporary body. He is the grand central figure of creation, the ultimate object of creative energy. Evolution of the soul of purpose and intention is manifested throughout the whole domain of nature. 210. SCIEXCE AND RELIGION. When geology came in conflict with the Mosaic ac- count of creation it was felt that a blow had been dealt at Christianity. But after a time it was seen that no fundamental religious truth had been assailed. Evolu- tion of organic life looked a far more dangerous foe to religion. The theory was thought to be at variance with fundamental doctrine. It seemed to favor a material- istic view of life. But evolution of the body and evolu- tion of the soul will do more than anything else to make clear a fact that there is in religion something indestruct- ible, which no scientific theory can endanger. All that such a theory and facts can do is to strip it of unessen- BVOUITION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 107 tials, so that the progress of science renders great service to religion. 211. THE PRIMITIVE MAN. The belief in spiritual beings may have been the germ from which religion has been developed. There is no existing tribe utterly nonreligious. To the primitive man every living creature was animated with a life and will like his own. Dreams suggested this view. In sleep man's spirit could journey far away from the body. When he awoke he could remember where he had been and what adventures he had had. And his friends could assure him that he had never moved from where he lay. His body therefore was tenanted by a spiritual being. And why should not all living creatures around him have similar tenants? 212. MORALITY AND RELIGION. Morality and religion interposed to avert ruin when man's ancestors first became man. The soul, his innate conscience, tells a man that it is not right to follow his own selfish ends, that he must give up his own pleasure and devote his energies to bringing up his family, and he must not be guilty of theft or fraud directly or in- directly, or of any other questionable practices. Reli- gion binds man with moral and spiritual laws, fighting against the tendency of selfishness which he can only with difficulty free himself, and so with religion it often tends to become an overelaborated framework of doc- trine and ceremony, obscuring what is really essential. In such cases science, armed with facts of experience, may interfere and strip it of unessentials and place it with all that is true and essential. It is religion that 108 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL made it possible for the human race to rise above the mere animal state, and made possible its advances to the highest levels it has attained. And to save the human race from falling victims to their own vices and prepare them for a hereafter. When true civilization is fully established selfishness will cease, people will be magnanimous enough to allow each other to do their own thinking and reasoning and to give to every man the fruit of his own labor, the labor of his hand and of his brain. CHAPTER XII. ETolntionary Aspect of Beincamation. 213. MATTER AND SPIRIT. Matter could not create any organism alone without spiritual energy. In the lowest organism there is raw material from which every noble thing has been evolved. There exist in rudimentary forms all the faculties of the highest. From such, rudiments have been evolved, without the implanting of any new powers from without. Evolution of the soul has been traced from a spark of the eternal, intellectual, uncreated energy in the one-celled organism through the gradient of the animal kingdom up to the crowning triumph of man's intellect, and it will keep on through numerous reincarnations until the soul has reached perfection and come in comformity with the universal spirit. 214. CRIMINALS. Modern business is intensely competitive. There is no Golden Rule in it ; you think it is the right thing to injure your competitor, and when he is ruined to smile the cold smile of the Romans in the amphitheater as the dying gladiators bit the dust. It is material nature's plan and seems to sharpen the human faculties and thus contributes to the keenness of the human animal who is inextricably involved in the struggle for existence, but it is not merely to be able to exist, it is to gratify his own selfish, abnormal, unholy greed at the expense of his broth- er man. The criminal from the so-called refined and cor- 110 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAJSf SOUL rupted environments of the great cities of modern civili- zation, the strenuous life he lives, his desire for social supremacy, his lust for wealth, late hours, intemperance, lack of rest, all which tend to unsettle him, have de- generated him into a semi-civilized condition. Do not imagine brutality is strength, nor is murder the only form of brutality. Millionaires, lumbermen, timber thieves and the poor man who trespasses upon his neighbor's wood pile, to keep his wife and children warm, are by de- grees in the same class ; the former are more despicable ; they steal for gain, the latter for want. Grafters who take advantage of an office given them by the grace of the people are in positions to rob the people, to levy toll on public funds, and, dividing it up with accomplices, are traitors to their benefactors. This produce strikes at the vitals of American principles. If we had more Roose- velts or women had the right of sufiFrage, there would be help to deliver us from the clutches of all such bribers and bribe-takers whether in state or municipal affairs. The grafters would then be an unheard-of commodity. 215. THE GREAT HYDRA- The great hydra-monster, Trustcraft, has ruined thou- sands of its competitors and numerous suicides have fol- lowed. Who killed those people? Meat and other food trusts dictate and pay the farmer the smallest possible price for his products and then make the consumers pay the highest price. They dare for the finished product, to enrich a few at the expense of the whole people. They are not satisfied with a legitimate profit, it is all for their own selfish, unholy greed. Thousands upon thousands of people in the large cities are underfed for want of be- EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 111 ing able to make money enough to buy the necessary nourishing food to keep their bodies from slowly starv- ing. Consumption and kindred diseases overtake them and an early grave awaits these unfortunate creatures in the midst of plenty. Those children who survive will be hindered from growing, they will be stunted by the heavy labor performed at a too early age and prevented from developing into hardy men and women in body and mind, and their offspring in return will be undersized weaklings. On the other hand these rapacious trust monsters spend their illgotten gains in high living and debauchery, and shorten the days of their allotted time and their own off- spring may become moral degenerates. Financial pro- moters who send out alluring prospectuses containing false promises, and get money by their false pretenses, water and sell their inflated stock for good money to a confiding public or to the poor widows, are worse than highwaymen and house-breakers. These promoters do not conspire to murder their victims, they only steal. But they are responsible for the ruin, suffering and suicide that follow their wholesale theft. He who knowingly takes opportunity from another man is brutal. Let every man return his ill-gotten gains directly to those from whom they were taken or stolen, be it man, city or state. When a man has paid in full all that he has stolen or taken by underhand, cruel, unrighteous indifference to the needs and prosperity of other men, cities or states, then and not till then may he try to wash his soul from foulness or utter prayers to his God. For the prayer of a man whose whole life is a long, brutal one is in the eyes of God the foulest of blasphemy. We know the soul is the seat of memory, it will remember everything 112 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL done in the body after the soul is released from the body, if not before. His conscience will awake remorse, it will overtake him and his whole life will come up before him like a panorama. Then he will see the hungry chil- dren of his victims crying for bread, see the faces and forms of widows who killed themselves to get out of their misery. That soul will say, "I murdered those women through my unholy greed." Can it be possible a God of love, mercy and justice will let that soul suffer eternally? Will that soul be incarnated in some ferocious animal? The esoteric science says that the human soul in no sense migrates from a human body to an animal body, although those principles which lie below the plane of self-con- sciousness may do so. That brutish character that had the opportunity in this life to train his soul for blissful eternity, but neglected to do so, will, according to the lav/ of affinity, be incarnated in a low form of human life, amongst the cannibals, where he may eat the flesh and suck the marrow from the bones of his brother cannibals, as he devoured the substance and sucked the life blood and absorbed the living of his fellow men in this life. The literal hell fire of burning that soul, if it could be con- sumed, would be merciful, but the soul is indestructible. The burning flame is that terrible pain of remorse pro- ceeding from the guilt of sin. 216. NO APOLOGY. The writer makes no apology for plain speaking. None can be demanded. The danger is so close to each of us when we know we cannot escape the God-ordained immu- table laws of nature. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 113 I cannot conceive the idea that after the soul has evolved through all the gradients of animal life up to the human life it can go back into brute life. Evolution cannot go backward, it must go forward. 217. STRONG APPETITE FOR LIQUOR. A man once said to me: "If it was not for my reli- gion I would be a drunkard. I have a strong appetite for liquor." The following colloquy occurred : "How do you man- age to get rid of that appetite for liquor ?" "That is very easy, my religion tells me it is wrong." "What do you do with an evil or criminal thought?" "My religion tells me it is a sin against God and man to do anything wrong." The fact is, his reason and his intuitional perception told him drunkenness was a sin and a crime against him- self, his family and the community, and so it is with any other crime. He always counteracted an evil thought with a good suggestion from his objective mind and his subjective mind acts in obedience. That would save him from all evil or sin. If he keeps on to the end of this life that soul will be perfectly clarified and when it leaves the body it will go to its maker never more to leave. 218. MONEY THE ROOT TO MOST EVIL. Money is the root to most all evil. If the money grabber would listen to his reason and his intuitional perception like the above mentioned man he would be safe from all evil doings. But he will not listen. He schemes the whole day, how he can make money by de- 114 EVOLUTION OP TH E HUMAN SOUL frauding his fellow man. His conscience is dead to him on the subject of making money any way he can. His reason and his intuitional perception tell him he is doing wrong but the love of money overbalances all his good thoughts. Such a man is not above the brute in character. If he does not succeed in making money by fraud, he may turn highwayman, housebreaker and perhaps kill someone and wind up on the gallows. 219. animals' duality of mind. Animals in common with men are possessed of a dual- ity of mind. In the former the objective reason being weak, and no power of speech, there can be no suggestion or faith in immortality conveyed to the subjective mind, and that soul cannot be self-conscious, consequently the spirit of the brute is not individualized. 220. THE LAW OF AFFINITY. Readers may ask why we do not remember our former incarnation. Because the immutable laws of affinity will lead the soul to be interlaced into different matter, as it was before, according to the former life we have lived. 221. GOD AND MAN. God is omniscient. In the soul of man it is instinct or intuition. God is omnipotent. In the soul of man it is dynamic energy. God is omnipresent. In the soul of man it is mental communion (telepathy). EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 115 222. THE STILL VOICE. The soul is the still voice within which leads man into the ways of truth and righteousness. Our rightful home is not here. Our earthly life is only a discipline, a school- ing for the other existence. 223. RELIGIOUS WORSHIP. Religious worship is an intuitive perception of the eternal principles of right and wrong. 224. WEAL OR WOE. The objective man is a free moral agent and has it in his power to train his soul for weal or woe, for this life and eternity. 225. OBJECTIVE ENVIRONMENT. Our soul while it is imprisoned in the body is limited and controlled by its objective environment. It is amenable to the law of suggestion. 226. FAITH OF THE SUBJECTIVE MIND. Faith to enable a person to be healed by mental proc- esses, is the faith of the subjective mind or soul, as Jesus employed it and understood it. It conforms to the facts demonstrated through hypnotic phenomena by modern science. Faith is applicable to all phenomena of the subjective mind. 227. INHERENT POWERS OF THE SOUL. In the inherent powers and attributes of the soul there is to be found indubitable evidence of its immortality. 116 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL This evidence is based on hypnotic phenomena which have been scientifically produced by experiments that the soul after death of the body does retain its identity in a far higher degree than it can retain it in this objective exist- ence. How is it retained through consciousness and memory ? 228. RIGHT AND WRONG. The soul is the seat of emotion and memory, but while in the flesh is dependent upon the objective education and suggestion of the individual for its standard of right and wrong. It is only through the emotion, conscience and memory that reward can be conferred or punish- ment inflicted upon the immortal soul. 229. THE GREAT PSYCHIC PHENOMENON. Jesus was the greatest psychic phenomenon we have any record of. He often repeated that faith or belief is necessary to salvation. Faith is the necessary condi- tion of the mind to receive the benefits of the psychic power. It is scientifically accurate. A lifelong skepti- cism in the existence of one's own soul and a consequent disbelief in immortality. And consequently such a man can have no moral responsibility. His conscience is asleep. Faith or belief is the necessary condition of the mind to receive the benefits of the psychic power. It teaches salvation as Jesus did, not by throwing our sins upon him, but by entering into the spiritual life. Faith will not atone for our sins. The soul is subject to the immutable law of reward and punishment according to the deeds done in the body. What is the reward ? Ever- EVOL UTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 117 lasting bliss and happiness. What is the punishment? Remorse and reincarnation. How long will the sinner be in that state of remorse after the death of the body before the law of affinity will carry him back to earth life again? That may depend upon the sins done in the body. He will reincarnate in matter to fit the character he formed in his previous life. 230. LET us REASON TOGETHER. Intelligent reader, let us reason together. I cannot con- ceive the idea of everlasting punishment. It is not in conformity with a God of love, mercy and justice, and neither is it in accordance with the laws of nature. The spiritual is as much nature as the material. Every day observation tells us plant life is an endless evolution. There is no difference between the spirit in plant life, the spirit in brute life, and the spirit or soul in man, ex- cept in degree. The soul of man is subject to the same laws, evolution, reincarnation, until it is entirely divorced from sin and matter. When the soul has become perfect it will then go to its native home from whence it came and never return to earth life again- 231, THE ZOOLOGIST. The Zoologist does not doubt the possibility of minerals becoming plants and plants becoming animals. Crystals strive after a higher life by assuming arborescent and mossy shapes. Plants display the embryonic qualities of low animals. No naturalist can mark the boundaries of the three kingdoms, so closely are they interlinked. 118 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 232. REINCARNATION. Reincarnation unites the family of man into a universal brotherhood. We cannot despise those who are tending downward, for who knows but we have journeyed that way ourselves in our former lives? 233. DIFFERENT SOULS. If every birth were an act of creation, the introduction to life of a new creature, we may ask why different souls are so variously constituted at the outset, and at the close of one brief mortal pilgrimage to reach the same goal and to be equally fitted for the same blessings or penalties of a fixed state hereafter. Observation assures us that one child is born with limited capacities, and perhaps a wayward disposition, strong passions and sullen temper ; has tendencies to do evil which may soon be developed. Another seems happily endowed from the start; is ami- able and kind, quick witted and precocious. The differ- ences of the external conditions also are so vast that they seem to detract much from the merit of a well spent life and from the guilt of vice and crime. One is nurtured in a good moral home, under protecting influ- ences, the path of virtue lies straight before him, while another seems born to heritage of misery and crime. It seems every one is born into the state which he has fairly earned by his own previous life. 234. THE FALSITY OF MATERIALISM. The falsity of materialism and the commanding power of the spirit are proven. The soul is independent of the physical body, sometimes leaving and returning to it EVOLUTION OP THE PIUMAN SOUL 119 and moulding it to suit its needs. All nature is but a vast family embodied in physical clothing and inextric- ably interlaced in living brotherhood, from the lowest atom to the sublimest forms. The gradual evolution of all proceeds in a constantly ascending order of things. Our life upon earth is rightly held to be a discipline and a preparation for a higher and eternal life hereafter. 235. THE BIOLOGIST. The biologist shows that each of us physically, before birth, runs through all the phases of animal life — polyp, fish, reptile, dog, ape, man. The ages have prepared our tenements. The preponderance of special animal traits in us is due, the biologist says, to the emphasis of those particular stages of our physical growth. The soul in infancy moves through an unconscious series of exist- ences, recapitulating its line of descent until it is fas- tened in maturity. So in our soul are traits and relics of former activities. Evolution proves that the physical man is the product of a long series of changes in which each stage is both the effect of past influences and the cause of succeeding issues. Intellectual, spiritual and moral evolution can only be explained by a series of reincarnations. All nature proceeds on economic meth- ods. Nothing is either added or lost. The law of con- servation of energy holds in the spiritual realms as in the physical. Energy in the universe neither increases nor diminishes but incessantly changes. 236. THE SPECIAL RESURRECTION. The theological special resurrection is contrary to all experience and science, but it recognizes the universality 120 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAJST SOUL of resurrection throughout all nature which is of common observation; the axiomatic law of cause and effect. There is no other explanation of the phenomena of life than the causes similar to those now operating before our eyes which have produced the results we witness; that each person requires some earlier experiences of phy- sical life to have generated them. The law of causation applied to personal experience is merely an extension into the spiritual domain of the fundamental premise of all science, the cardinal axiom of every philosophy — ^that each effect has an adequate cause and each cause work infinite consequences. It is what we have made our- selves, what we are by former actions and are building our future eternity by present action. There is no sal- vation or condemnation except what we ourselves bring about. Action of the spirit, whether in the inner con- sciousness, or by vocal expression, or in outward acts, is the secret force which directs our journeys through infinity, driving us down into the gloomy regions of evil, of matter and of selfishness, or up toward the God of spirit and of love. It is for every man and woman to determine with what character he or she will leave the world at the close of one stage of his or her earthly being. With this character thus trained for weal or woe he or she is to begin a new life and either rise or fall farther than ever. We are all so conscious of the many errors and sins we have committed that the retrospect is a saddening one. 237. BRAHMANS AND BUDDHISTS. Brahmans and Buddhists agree upon the philosophy of reincarnation. Every branch of these systems aims at EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 121 the means of escaping from the necessity of repeated birth and many have penetrated the veils concealing past existences and are able to verify by their finer senses the reality of reincarnation. Many educated natives and resident foreigners in India have witnessed evidences of this keen power of insight associated with other extraor- dinary qualities which compelled them to believe in it. Brahmanism and Buddhism, the later protestant phase of the old faith which abolished its abuses of caste and priesthood, and spread its reformation through a great part of Asia, did not alter the teaching of reincarnation, but confirmed the truth from remotest ages. 238. TRAVELERS. Travelers agree that these religions are far more really lived up to by their followers than Christianity is with us. It must be admitted that a spiritual selfishness which is so throughly practiced as to bear all the fruits of generous love is preferable to a noble sacrifice which is so largely precept as to appear to the naked eye. 239. THE DAILY LIFE OF BUDDHISM. In many parts of inner China, Thibet, India and other parts of Asia the daily life of Buddhism is so like the realization of Christianity as to give strong support to the theory of the Indian origin of our religion. Honesty, modesty and simplicity prevail in these sections. Woman is held in esteem and children are treated more beautifully than in many Christian homes. Those people, knowing the indestructibility of the soul, the evanescence of the body and the permanence of the spiritual traits as formed 122 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL by words, thoughts and deeds, focus the whole energy of life upon purity of self and charity to others. To tolerate all differences of religious opinion, to govern the soul, to love one's enemies, to abstain from defensive warfare, to venerate age, to provide food and shelter for the needy are guiding maxims of actual life among them. Reincarnation illuminates the darkest passages of life and reveals cardinal principles. Kindliness, virtue, and spirituality may thus be seen in their unveiled splendor as the only proper modes of action and thought. 240. THE CLARIFIED SPIRIT. It is impossible for a person to cease to exist. When the tenant of the body moves out, the forces binding to- gether the dwelling scatter to the nearest uses awaiting them. There shall at length come to every ascending soul the experience of those whose departure from this life cannot be called death, as did Jesus, and other men and women who trained their souls for eternity and lived good moral and spiritual lives. The clarified spirit greets death with welcome. The forces of evil are powerful and multiply themselves, but the predominant power is infinitely good. The supremacy of good in the universe diminishes the full force of evil and makes the higher attraction outvie the lower and hasten the final disap- pearance of darkness. This insures amelioration of all life by the benign process of re-birth. 241. WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION. Jesus perceived the spiritual laws, the eternal prin- ciple of right and wrong. We may profit by his ex- EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL 123 ample and his precepts, otherwise we must work out our own salvation, knowing that when the soul reaches its final home it will be in possession of the eternal standard by which to measure the guilt or innocence of every deed done in the body. "Sin no more lest a worse thing come upon thee." (Jesus.) "None can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God a ransom for him." (Ps. xlix. 7.) "Work out your own salvation. Let every man prove his own work and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden. Be not deceived, for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." (Phil. ii. 12; Gal. vi. 4, 5, 7. St. Paul.) "Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life." (Solomon.) "Do not to others what you would not have others do to you." (Confucius.) Daniel Webster was asked what the greatest thought that ever stirred his mind was. He replied: "The thought of my personal accountability to God." Every well balanced mind agrees with that intellectual giant. 242. PRE-EXISTENCE. Pre-existence, the premise necessarily leading to re- incarnation, is strongly present in the Bible, chiefly in the form of pre-existence. The wide spread belief in it among the Jews is found in Solomon's long reference to it among his Proverbs. This wise king wrote of him- self, "The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, 124 EVOLUTIOX OF THE HUMAN SOUL before the world of old. I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the earth viras, when there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no foundations abounding with water. Before the moun- tains were settled, before the hills, was I brought forth, while as yet he had not made the earth nor the fields nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he pre- pared the heavens I was there, when he set a compass upon the face of the deep, when he established the clouds above, when he strengthened the foundations of the deeps, when he gave to the sea his decree that the water should not pass his commandments, when he appointed the foundation of the earth, then I was by him as one brought up with him and I was daily his delight, rejoic- ing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable of the earth, and my delights were with the sons of man." The prophets too are assured of their pre-natal antiquity ; Job and the Psalms suggest this idea. There is evidence for it all through the Old Testament, a fact conceded by commentators, and was always claimed by the Jewish rabbis. The apocryphal wisdom of Solomon teaches pre-existence of the human soul as when it says (ix. 15) "I was an ingenuous child and received a good soul, nay, more, being good, I came into a body vmdefiled, and the corruptible body pressed down the soul and the earthly tabernacle weijheth down the mind that museth upon many things." 243. CREED OF THE FIRST CEXTURIES. The prevailing creed of the first centuries of Chris- tianity found reincarnation as in all the previous ages, but with various shades of interpretations. RuflSnus in EVOLUTION OF THE HCMAN SOUL. 125 his letter to Anastasius, says that this opinion was com- mon among the primitive fathers. Jerome later relates that the doctrine of transmigration was taught as an esoteric one, communicated to only a select few. Xeme- sius emphatically declared that all the Greeks who be- lieved in immortality believed also in transmigration. Delizeh says it had its advocates as well in the synagogues as in the church. The Gnostics and Manicheans received it from Zoroastrian predecessors. The Xeoplatonist de- rived it from Plato and the Orient. The Church Fathers got it not only from these sources but from the Jews and the early Christians. 244. VITAL SPIRIT OF CHRISTIANITY. Reincarnation is the most vital spirit of Christianity. It is the hidden core of the gospel of Jesus and of every other great religion and philosophy ; it clearly unfolds what the unconscious believe in the law of cause and effect. 245. THE POPULAR IMPRESSION. Jesus repeatedly confirms the popular impression that John the Baptist was a reincarnation of Elijah. To the throng around him he said: "Among them that are born of women there had not risen a greater man than John the Baptist. If ye will receive it, this is Elijah which was fore to come." That John the Baptist denied his former personality as Elijah is not strange, for no one remembers distinctly his former life. Jesus asked his disciples, "Whom say man that I am?" and his dis- ciples state the popular thought in answering, "Some say Elijah, others Jeremiah and others one of the old 126 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL prophets." "But whom say ye that I am?" Peter, the spokesman, replies, "Thou art the Christ, the son of God," and so expressed another phase of the same prevaiUng idea, for the Christ was also an Old Testament person- age, and Jesus approved this response. After Herod had decapitated John the Baptist, the appearance of Jesus also preaching and baptizing, roused in him the appre- hension that the prophet he killed had come to life again. 246. ORIGIN. "There came a man sent from God whose name was John." (John i. 6.) Origin says that it implies the existence of John the Baptist previous to his terres- trial body, and hints at the universal belief in pre-exist- ence by adding, "If the Catholic opinion holds good con- cerning the soul as not propagated with the body, but existing previously and for various reasons clothed in flesh and blood, this expression, sent from God, will no longer seem extraordinary as applied to John. No words could more exactly suit the aspirations of an oriental be- liever in reincarnation than these in the apocalypse: 'Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out.' " (Rev. iii, 12.) 247. THE LOGICIAN. The logician of the Scriptures says, "Whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away." But the everlasting- ness of character insures the permanance of our identity and our dearest ties. The unconscious memory shall become more conspicuous until it reveals the course of our complete career. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 127 248. JANGLING WITH CREEDS. After many centuries of tedious jangling with creeds and sects we are learning that primitive Christianity will make earth a paradise. We await the world's complete education, when man shall tire of fashioning useless stuflf from their crumbling theories and revert to the basal granite of which the everlasting foundations are laid. 249. DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE. The latest developments of science agree with the occultists that there is no death and that nothing is death. Life, the occultist says, is eternal uncreated en- ergy. The physicist grasps at the same thing in the law of continuity, and modern science concedes that energy has as much claim to be regarded as an objective reality as matter itself. Reincarnation demonstrates that the personal ego which permanently maintains its identity amid the constant changes of the bodily casement and the mental consciousness must continue its individuality. The soul or spirit which is the man himself does not die. It is the basis of Christian hope and faith ; it is the belief of by far the greater part of what we presume to call the uncivilized world. 250. THE BROADEST INTELLIGENCE. The broadest intelligence leads us into the evolutionary aspect of reincarnation. The present life is one grade of a school in which we are being educated for a destiny far beyond our comprehension; the experiences through which we have descended below former altitudes. The only path to the absolute lies through the sensuous earthly 128 EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL vale. Sin itself, after we have escaped it, will lead to a mightier result than would be possible without it. Our physical schooling through all the grades necessary will build a sublime character into complete harmony with God. The soul carries with it from one stage of exist- ence to another the habits that have been formed, the passions which have not been chastised, but have volun- tarily gone on into vice and crime. The probation of the soul extends continuously through a long series of suc- cessive existences upon earth and beyond each and every act in the whole life history being retributive for what went before. This is the universal law of being, whether of matter or mind. Everything changes, nothing dies in the sense of being annihilated, according to the admis- sion of the materialist. Not one atom of matter is ever generated or ever ceases to be. It only escapes from one combination to enter another. The human soul, which we know from consciousness and phenomena is absolutely indestructible and indivisible, passing on after the dissolution of the body to animate another body. Only the education of the spiritual in us, of sacrifice, nobility and divinity can divorce us from this earth by affinities. Evolution, reincarnation, the soul's indestruct- ibility, explains the descent and destiny of the soul. It has dominated the ingenuous mind of all primitive races and has been most permanently influential, in all of its philosophies. It teaches that the soul entered this life, not as a fresh creation, but after a long course of previ- ous existences on this earth and elsewhere, in which it acquired its present inherent peculiarities and is on the way to future transformations which the soul is now shaping. The current phase of life will also be stored EVOLUTI ON OF THE HUMAN SOUL 129 away in the secret vault of memory for its unconscious effect upon the ensuing lives. All the qualities we now possess in the body, mind, and soul result from our use of ancient opportunities. We are the heirs of all the ages, and are alone responsible for our inheritances. The conditions accrue from distant causes generated by our older selves, and the future flows by natural law, cause and effect from gathered momentum of our past impetuses. Science explains the idosyncrasies of plants and animals by the environment of previous generations, and calls instinct hereditary habit. In the same way there is an evolution of individuality by which the child opens its new era with characteristics derived from an- terior lives. The soul accumulates a fund of individual character which remains permanent throughout all the separate lives. The constant new birth then constitutes the succession of the soul which in itself is indestructible, until instructed and improved by various successive knowledge and love for all humanity, and kindness, mercy and justice for all living things. Love was the funda- mental principle of Jesus' teaching. The soul that abrogates itself comes into perfect harmony with the supreme architect of the universe and will live and reign with God forever and ever. CHAPTER XIII. Esoteric Science. 251. THE INITIATES. Philosophy was carefully preserved among the initiates of every country. Every ancient religious or philosoph- ical cult consisted of an esoteric or secret teaching and an exoteric (outward public) worship. From the Hiero- phants of Samothrace, Egypt and the initiated Brah- mans of India of old, down to the later Hebrew Rabbis, all preserved their real bonafide beliefs secret. The Jewish Rabbis called their secular religious series the Mercavah (the exterior body) the vehicle, or covering which contains the hidden soul, viz., their highest secret knowledge. 252. THE ANCIENT NATIONS. No one of the ancient nations ever imparted through its priests its real philosophical secrets to the masses but allotted to the latter only the husks. Occult alphabets and secret ciphers are the development of the old Egyp- tian hieratic writings, the secret of which An the days of old was in the possession only of the Hierogrammatists or initiated Egyptian priests. Ammbnius Saccas, as his biographers tell us, bound his pupils by oath not to di- vulge the secret doctrine to the common people. 253. ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHY. Jesus was learned in the Egyptian Esoteric philosophy. There is enough in the four gospels to show what was the EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 131 most secret and most fervent hope of Jesus ; the hope in which he began to teach and in which he died. In his crowning greatness and unselfish love for humanity he considers it unjust to deprive the many of the results of the knowledge acquired by the few. This result he accordingly preached — the unity of a spiritual God, whose temple is within each of us, and in whom we live as He lives in us — in spirit. This knowledge was in the hands of the Jewish adepts of the school of Hilled and the Kabalists. But the scribes, or lawyers, having gradually merged into the dogmatism of the dead letter, had long since separated themselves from the Tanaim, the true spiritual teachers, and the practical Kabalists were more or less persecuted by the synagogue. Hence, we find Jesus exclaiming : "Woe unto ye lawyers ! For ye have taken away the key of knowledge (the gnosis), ye en- tered not in yourselves, and them that were entering ye prevented." (Luke xi. 52.) The meaning here is clear. They did take the key away and could not even profit by it themselves, for the Masorah Tradition had become a closed book to themselves as well as to others. Jesus did speak to the multitudes in parables which had a two-fold meaning and explain his reasons only to his disciples. To you he says, "It is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but unto them that are without all these things are done in parables." (Matthew xiii. II.) The Essenes of Judea and Carmel made similar distinctions, dividing their adherents into neophytes, brethren and the perfect, or those initiated. (Eclec. Phil.) Examples might be brought from every country to this effect. 132 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL .254. ECSTASY. The initiate or adept in the wisdom, philosophy or re- ligion are in some respects identical with the mediums of modern spiritualism of this day. As to Psychology they all go into ecstasy and in this condition believe fully they have communications with the unseen world. Sci- ence in the last thirty years has found in suggestion a key to all these mysteries. By experimental observation in hypnotic phenomena it has found that the communica- tions do not come from spirits of the other world but come from the still voice within his own soul. 255. CAUSE AND EFFECT. Strict and impartial justice is the immutable law of cause and effect. Every act, word and thought has consequences which will appear sooner or later, either in the present or in the future state. Evil acts will produce evil consequences, good acts will produce good conse- quences. The universal deity, the immutable law of nature, is a power which has neither wrath nor mercy, only absolute equity which leaves every cause, great or small, to work out its inevitable effects. The saying of Jesus conforms to the known laws of nature, "With what measure you mete it shall be measured to you again." (Matthew viii. 2.) Neither by expression nor implica- tion is there any hope of future mercy or salvation by proxy. "Resist not evil but render good for evil" is a Buddhist precept as it is a Christian precept. It is also a precept of our inner conscience — our soul. For a man to take the law into his own hands is sacrilegious presumption. A man who revenges himself and refuses EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 133 to forgive any injury, thereby rendering evil for evil, only hurts himself, as the great law of cause and effect is sure to punish the man wrho wronged him by seeking to inflict an additional punishment on his enemy. In- stead of leaving the punishment to the great Law, he adds to his own mite — begets future punishment for him- self. The unfailing regulator effects in each incarnation the quality of its successor ; and the sum of the merit or demerit in preceding ones determine it. 256. JESUS FORGAVE HIS ENEMIES. When Jesus was dying on the cross he forgave his enemies. His last words were prayers in their behalf. He taught his disciples to curse not, but to even bless their foes. Let us profit by his example. The man who curses his enemies is not a follower of Jesus but a fol- lower of the Lord of the Jews. "Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." (Genesis ix. 25.) 257. ABROGATE THE JEWISH LORD. The mission of Jesus was to abrogate the Jewish Lord who was opposed to the God and Father of Jesus and all humanity. Did Jesus ever pronounce the name of Jeho- vah? In what particular does the jealous, wrathful, re- vengeful God of Israel resemble the unknown Deity, tlie (5od of nature? This Father alone is the God of spirit and purity. 258. MAIMONIDES. Maimonides, the great Jewish theologian and his- torian, a learned man, has successfully demonstrated that 134 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL the Chaldean magic, the science of Moses and other ancient thaumaturgists, was wholly based on an extensive knowledge of the various and now forgotten branches of natural science. Thoroughly acquainted with all the re- sources of the vegetable, animal and mineral kingdoms, expert in chemistry and physics, these were psychologists as well as physiologists. Why wonder that the graduates or adepts instructed in the mysterious sanctuaries of the temples could perform wonders, which to the uninitiated people would appear as miracles. 259. MOSES AN INITIATE. Moses was indebted for his knowledge to the mother of the Egyptian princess, Thermuthis, who saved him from the waters of the Nile. The wife of Pharaoh, Batria, was an initiate, an adept herself, and the Jews owe to her the possession of their prophet, learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. 260. ANCIENT SCIENTISTS. The merit of Champollion, as an Egyptologist, none will question. He declares that everything demonstrates the ancient Egyptians to have been profoundly mono- theistical. The accuracy of the writings of the mysteri- ous Hermes Trismegistus, whose antiquity runs back into the mists of time is corroborated by him to their minutest details. Ennemoser says that into Egypt and the East went Herodotus, Thales, Pharmenides, Empe- docles, Orpheus and the Pythagoras to instruct them- selves in natural Philosophy and Theology. There too Moses acquired his wisdom and Jesus passed the earlier years of his life. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 135 261. APOLLONIUS. Apollonius, a contemporary of Jesus of Nazareth, was like him an enthusiastic Psychologist and founder of a spiritual school. Perhaps less metaphysical and more practical than Jesus, less tender and perfect in his nature, he nevertheless inculcated the same quintessence of spirituality, and the same high moral truths. His great mistake was to confine them too closely to the higher classes of society. While to the poor and the humble Jesus preached "peace on earth and good will to all mankind," Apollonius was the friend of kings, and moved with the aristocracy. He was born among the latter and was a man of wealth, while the Son of Man, representing the people, had no place to lay his head; nevertheless, the two exhibited striking similarity of pur- pose. 262. ENEMIES OF HYPOCRISY. Like Buddha and Jesus, Apollonius was the uncom' promising enemy of all outward show of piety, all dis- play of useless religious ceremonies and hypocrisy. If we study the historical facts with a dispassionate mind, we will soon perceive that the ethics of Gautama, Bud- dha, Plato, Apollonius, Jesus, Ammonius, Sakkas and his disciples were all based on the same esoteric, mystic philosophy. They all worshipped one God, whether they considered him as the Father of humanity, who lives in man as man lives in him, or as the incomprehensible creative Principle, all led God-like lives. Ammonius speaking of his philosophy, taught that their school dated from the days of Hermes, who brought his wisdom from India. It was the same mystical contemplation through- 136 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL out as that of the Yogin, the communion of the Brahman with his own luminous self. "Who is self?" is asked in the Rig- Veda. "Self is the Lord of all things * * * all things are contained in this self, all selves are con- tained in this self." Brahman itself is, but self is the answer. Says Idra Rabbi : "All things are Himself and Himself is concealed on every side." ' The Adam Kad- mon of the Kabalists contains in himself all the souls of the Israelites, and he is himself in every soul says the Sohar. The groundwork of the Electric School was thus identical with the doctrines of the Yogin, the Hindu mystic and the earlier Buddhism of the disciples of Gautama. Jesus assured his disciples that the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him, dwells with and in them who are in Him and He in them, he expounded the same tenet that we find running through every real philosophy, ancient and modern. CHAPTER XIV. Atonement. 263. JESUS. Jesus termed himself the Son of God, but took care to assert repeatedly that they were all the children of God, the Heavenly Father of all. In preaching this he but repeated a doctrine taught ages earlier by Hermes, Plato and other philosophers. Jesus said to Mary Magdalena, "Go to my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and your Father and to my God and your God." (John XX-17). 264. THE ORIGIN OF ATONEMENT. The Homilies prove but too clearly the utter want of any early authority for the doctrine of atonement. The Homilies clash but little with the Gospels, but disagree entirely with the dogmas of the church. Peter knew nothing of the atonement, and his reverence for the mythical father Adam would never have allowed him to admit that this patriarch had sinned and was accursed. Neither does the Alexandrian Theological School ap- pear to have been cognizant of this doctrine, nor Ter- tullian ; nor was it discussed by any of the earlier fathers. Philo represents the story of the Fall as symbolical, and Origen regarded it the same way as Paul, as an allegory. The Hierophants had their atonement enacted in the mys- tery of initiation ages before the Gnostics or even Essenes had appeared. It was known among Hierophants as the Baptism of Blood, and was considered not as an 138 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL atonement for the fall of man in Eden but simply as an expiation for the past, present and future sins of ignorant but nevertheless polluted mankind. The Hierophant had the option of either offering his pure and sinless life as a sacrifice for his race to the gods, whom he hoped to re- join, or an animal victim. The former depended entirely on their own will. At the last moment of the solemn new birth the initiator passed the word to the initiated and im- mediately after that the latter had a weapon placed in his right hand and was ordered to strike. This is the true origin of the Christian doctrine of atonement. We may trace it back to heathendom. 265. ATONEMENT AS A DOGMA. Atonement crept in as a dogma in the Christian re- ligion, long after the death of Jesus. The clergy say no matter how enormous our crimes against the laws of God and of man are, we have but to believe in the self-sacri- fice of Jesus for the salvation of mankind and His blood will wash away every sin. It is impossible to conceive of a human sin so damnable that the price paid in advance for the redemption of the sinner would not wipe it out. Though the offender wait until the last minute of his mortal life and utter the confession of faith in Jesus and repentance he may go straight to heaven. Reason, jus- tice and the immutable law of nature revolts against this vicarious atonement. To maintain that one may wrong his fellow man, kill and disturb the equilibrum of society, and then, through cowardice, hope or com- pulsion, be forgiven by believing that the spilling of one's blood washes out the other blood spilt — ^this is unreason- able, preposterous. The effect of a cause cannot be ob- EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 139 literated by pardon, the cause is there and the effect will follow. The red-handed murderers slay their victims in most cases, without giving them time to repent and call on Jesus to wash them clean with his blood. They are supposed to go to the lake of hell-fire into everlasting punishment. But the murderer repents and calls on Jesus and goes straightway to heaven. That kind of a Jesus is a myth concocted two centuries after the real Jesus died. CHAPTER XV, Altruism. 266. FATHER DAMIEN. Self-sacrifice was the standard which marked the greatest teachers and masters of humanity. Gautama Buddha in History, and Jesus of Nazareth in the Gos- pels, both present enough to secure the perpetual grati- tude and reverence of their followers. Observations at the present time show that a great many noble men and women are ready to sacrifice their lives in doing good to others. There are many instances in modern history of self-sacrifice for practical good. I may mention the Bel- gian priest, Father Damien, a man of thirty years, who offered his life for the benefit and alleviation of the suf- ferings of the lepers at Molokai, and who after living for eighteen years with them caught the loathsome disease and died. He gave physical relief and mental comfort and happiness to hundreds of miserable creatures. He threw light into the dreary night of existence, the hope- lessness of which is unparalleled in the records of human suffering. 267. DR. LAZEAE. Dr. Jesse W. Lazear, who voluntarily permitted him- self to be inoculated with the yellow fever germ in order to furnish a necessary experimental test in the course of the investigation, and who died of the disease, should also be written in the list of the martyrs who have died in the cause of humanity. Statues should be erected to EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 141 each of the above mentioned men to perpetuate their memory among men as examples of altruism. 268. OBJECT OF EDUCATION. One of the real objects of education should be to cul- tivate and develop the mind of children and young people in the right direction to enable them to carry with forti- tude, the burden of life allotted them, to strengthen their wills, to inculcate in them the love of one's neighbors and the feeling of mutual interdependence and brother- hood and thus train and form the character for practical life. The mother should be the first teacher, the public school the next. Remember, when the child is small the brain is soft and as we mould them "so they harden. No man has a right to say he can do nothing for others. A cup of cold water given in time to a thirsty wayfarer is a noble duty if we cannot do more. Selfishness is the curse of humanity and the prolific parent of most of the evil and crime in this life. Let altruism and brotherly love be implanted in young people and let us practice it ourselves! War (legalized murder) would then stop and we could make earth a paradise to live in. 269. WATERED STOCK. One-half to two-thirds of the outstanding stock of street and steam railways and other public utilities is watered. They charge enough on the traffic to pay divi- dends on the water. It is one of the great curses of the country to-day. The officers must charge enough to pay dividends on the watered stock, which if squeezed out, the rates to the public could come down about one-half and 142 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL the honest money invested would receive good dividends. This sin is the more odious as it is not the result of a sud- den impulse of temptation but is perpetration in cold de- liberation. They use all kinds of specious arguments to catch the unwary and inflict misery on a too confiding community. They rob the people of millions and give a small part of their ill-gotten gains to schools and chari- ties. They pose as benefactors of mankind and imagine it will save them in the life to come. It will not, the cause is there and the effect will follow. All they have plundered they must give back to the people. If not, their conscience will awake, remorse will overtake them in the life to come, if not before, to suffer penalties for the sins done in the body. But if they change their char- acters before the soul leaves the body there will be some amelioration in the next reincarnation. They build fine churches, hire eloquent preachers and pay them princely salaries out of their unrighteous money. The preachers do not like it as they have to preach to tickle their bene- factors' ears. If they reprove these so-called gentlemen and tell them of their sinful deeds and unholy lives, off come their heads and they are deprived of their good sala- ries. These hypocrites who are devouring the substance of the people, by their unholy greed do not wish their victims (the people) to enter their fine club houses of worship. They are like the pharisees of old, very strict in the externals of their religion. They do not wish to commingle with the common people. Their preachers are obliged to leave the small sinners and good people to the preachers in other churches and those who labor on the street corners, in business houses and in private homes where the people will receive them. The latter EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL 143 preachers do like their master did. He did not sit in a temple ornamented with fine decorations waiting for the sinners and hypocrites to come to him, he went tp the slums and preached salvation to publicans and sinners. He said the temple of God is not made with hands. • It is within you. 270. SOCIETIES. A great many church and secular societies do practical good. Societies for recreation and amusement where there is commingling of men and women should be en- couraged. There are some of these women of society who make use of the God given opportunity, a part of their time, for substantial relief of humanity. There are men and women of self-sacrifice who give up their whole lives in doing good. They visit the homes of the needy, to relieve the sufferings of body and mind of the afflicted and unfortunate, I may mention the Salvation Army, the Volunteers of America and the Little Sisters of the Poor who give relief, physical and mental, for the benefit and alleviation of others. They practice altruism to the full- est extent of their lives, as Jesus did. Great will be their rewards in the life to come. 271. A TRIBUTE. Francis Xavier pays a tribute to the Japanese in say- ing, in virtue and probity they surpassed all the nations he had ever seen. CHAPTER XVI. Immortality of the Soul. 272. THE CLERGY. The clergy of Tibet, China, Japan and other countries teach in the present age that which was taught by the oldest Chaldeans, that the practice of moral and physi- cal purity affords to man the control over his immortal soul. It was the same teaching of Jesus, Buddha and many other founders of religions, with the exception of Moses, for his religion was an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The Jewish God confined his revelation to one family and its descendants. Never a whisper of guid- ance to anybody else. He was partial to his creatures and it is not a rational doctrine. Men who try to make us accept such dogmas are creating atheists. But God has given us an infallible book — a guide — our immortal soul within ourselves. If we will listen to our intuitional perception, it will tell us what is right or wrong, and we will always be on the right side and be in conformity with the universal spirit. The universal love will be implanted in our soul. We will then do good work and form a character that the law of affinity will carry in a soul when it leaves the body to everlasting bliss and hap- piness. 273. MAN. Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms tem- porarily united by a mysterious force called the life prin- ciple. To the materialist the only difference between a EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 145 living and a dead body is that in the one case force is active, in the other latent. When it is extinct, or entirely latent, the molecules obey a superior attraction which draws them asunder and scatters them. 274. DEATH. This dispersion must be death, if it is possible to con- ceive such a thing as death, where the very molecules of the dead body manifest an intense vital energy. If death is but the stoppage of a digesting locomotive and thought- grinding machine, how can death be actual and not rela- tive before that machine is thoroughly broken up and its particles dispersed? So long as any of the atoms cling together the centripetal vital force may overmatch the dispersive centrifugal action. Change attests movement and movement only reveals life. Death is not sudden. All the molecules which compose the body are living and struggle to separate. And would you think that the spirit frees itself first of all to exist no more? Can spirit, thought and love die when the grossest forms of matter do not die ? If the change should be called death we die and are born again every day, for every day our forms undergo change. 275. THE KABALISTS. According to the Kabalists, a man is not dead when his body is entombed. Death is never sudden; nothing goes in nature by violent transitions. Everything is grad- ual. As it required a long and gradual development to produce the living, human being, so time is required to completely withdraw vitality from the dead body. "Death 146 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL , k ■ - -— I. — can no more be an absolute end than birth a real begin- ning. Birth proves the pre-existence of the being, as death proves immortality." 276. STUDIED NATURE. In the days of old there v^rere great schools instituted for teaching sciences in general. Samuel is recorded as the chief of such an institution at Ramah, and Elisha of one at Jericho. Hilled had a regular academy and Socra- tes is well known to have sent away several of his dis- ciples to study manticism. Wisdom included every branch of science, the metaphysical as well as the physi- cal, psychology and physiology in their common and oc- cult phases. The study of alchemy was universal for it was both a physical and a spiritual science. Therefore, why doubt or wonder that the ancients, who studied nature under its double aspect, achieved discoveries which remain a closed book to our modern physicists, who may study only physical science. The prodigies of Jesus and Apollonius are so well attested that they appear authentic, whether in either or both cases life was simply suspended or not. The important fact remains that by some power in nature both wonder-workers recalled the seemingly dead to life in an instant, and performed other wonderful acts seemingly miracles to the uninitiated in the esoteric science. But by the rediscovery of sugges- tion what was a closed book is now reopened to scientists and students and even to the common people. 277. COSMIC MATTER. Matter is as indestructible and eternal as the immortal spirit itself, but only in its particles, and not as organized EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 147 forms. The existence of the soul after corporal death must occur in accordance with the law of evolution. It takes man from his place at the apex of the pyramid of matter and lifts him into a sphere of existence where the same inexorable law follows. Man, as well as anything animate or inanimate, has been evolved out of condensed cosmic matter, and our physicists cannot see the slight- est difiference between the molecules of any of the king- doms in nature. The progress is continuous from ele- ments to mineral kingdom, from mineral to vegetable kingdom and from vegetable to animal kingdom. Mole- cules originally and constantly homogeneous and all ener- gized by the principle of evolution are carried through those kingdoms to the final result of evolving immortal man The harmony which geometry and mathematics, the exact sciences, demonstrate to be the law of the uni- verse, would be destroyed if evolution were perfectly ex- emplified in man alone and limited in the subordinate kingdoms. 278. HARMONY. Harmony in the physical and mathematical world of sense is justice in the spiritual one. Justice produces harmony, and injustice discord, and discord, on a cos- mical scale, means chaos and annihilation. 279. LATENT GERMS. As there is a developed immortal spirit in man it must also be in everything else, at least in a latent or germinal state, and it can only be a question of time for these germs to become fully developed. CHAPTER XVII. Bibliolatry. 280. THE HISTORICAL BIBLE. The historical Bible is a book of 66 small volumes written during a period of nine hundred years in different countries, by different people. The first five books of the Bible were written between five and six hundred years before Jesus Christ. No book was placed in the Bible by anything that is claimed to be divine authority. No writer of any book is authorized to speak for the author of any other book. These books drifted together and came to be bound as one by common consent. Prof. Swing says the Bible is a poem. Dr. Ryder says it is a picture. I say it is a history, not inspired of God. The so called inspiration came not from without but from within. It came from their own subjective minds and was suggested by their own objective intelligences. If there is anything contrary to nature it was written by men. If there is anything immoral, cruel, heartless or infamous in the Old Testament it certainly was not in- spired by a being worthy of the adoration of mankind. Jehovah, the Jewish God, ever upheld human slavery, polygamy, wars of extermination and tyranny. Think of the nature of a god who would inspire the prayer seen in the 109th Psalm. Think of one infamous enough to answer it. Do you call that Psalm inspired? Many good people who believe in the inspiration of the Bible are loud in their denunciation of what they are pleased to call the immoral literature of the world, and yet few EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 149 books have been published, containing more immorality than the Old Testament. Is it not insane to believe that books containing such to be the inspired word of God? I cannot afford to soil my pages with extracts from them as they now appear. There are many passages in the Old Testament not fit to be read by anyone. It contains pages that no minister would read to his congregation. There are passages that no father would read to his child, and no gentleman would read it in the presence of a lady. There are nar- ratives utterly unfit to be told. (Genesis xix-3i-38; Ezekiel iv. 12-16.) Many wonder that such books were ever called inspired. The literature of the world will not be sweet and clean until the Bible ceases to be regarded as the production of God. The historical Bible will take its place with the Vedas, Eddas, Koran, Sagas, Shastras and Turanas. There are many good true passages in the Old Testament. Let us profit by the good passages and let the bad ones alone. 281. BLOODY SACRIFICE. As to the institution of bloody sacrifice, the Scripture attributes it to God. I refer the readers to Exodus. Men believed they were honoring God by tearing into pieces and butchering His own creatures under the pretext of offering them as a sacrifice to Him. The sacrifices of animals consists in blood, plucks, livers, kidneys, smoke, birds, claws, cakes, and certain measures of oil and wine, they being offered by unclean ceremonies, as wretched, cruel and contemptible as the most extravagant perform- ance of magic. What is most horrible of all this is that the laws of the Jewish people commanded that even men 150 EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL should be offered up as sacrifices: Jephthah sacrificed his daughter, and Abraham wanted to sacrifice his son. As to the prophecies, these prophets reproach each other for speaking falsely in the name of God. No prophecy in favor of the Jewish nation was ever fulfilled. The number of prophecies which predict the prosperity and the greatness of Jerusalem is almost innumerable. If these made to the Jews had been really true the Jewish nation long ago would have been, and would still be the greatest, most powerful and blessed of the nations of the earth. On one occasion one of the prophets, named Sedecias, being contradicted by another, named Michea, struck the latter and said to him pleasantly, "By what way did the spirit of God pass from me to you?" These prophets were the same as our modern prophets of to- day, self-hypnotized visionaries. When in a state oi reverie they hear voices and believe they come from above, but they come from their own inner conscience. They are honest but nevertheless in error. Jesus never claimed he performed any of the so-called miracles out- side of natural laws. The miracle mongers crept after Jesus died. If there is any man who boasts his power to perform miracles and wants to set them down is a char- latan. Have you a superstitious reverence for the Bible? Do you believe in its inspiration? I do not want to shock you, but believing or disbelieving in it will neither condemn or save you. 282. TYRANTS. If you are an intellectual dissembler and a tyrant, don't be so hard on the infidels. Don't imagine you will have the pleasure to sit by the throne of God and fling them EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 151 into the burning furnace. You have made them disbe- lievers in the inspiration of the Bible by your hypocriti- cal actions, deeds and oppressions. A hundred years ago the infidels of France found their land filled with ty- rants and slaves. They were a down-trodden people, half naked, half starved, without hope, and reason. Those despised infidels raised up in their might, preached lib- erty and saved mankind from tyranny of soul and body. They did not know they had immortal souls, but their souls were as big as a mountain compared to a grain of mustard seed in those narrow minded bigoted tyrants. These infidels had the innate conscience of the universal love and brotherhood of men. The fanatical tyrants were merely dissemblers. 283. SHACKLES ON THE BRAIN. To put chains upon the body is nothing, compared with putting shackles on the brain. Intellectual tyrants have paralyzed the reason apparatus, they made the people be- lieve they had none, and said it was done for their own good. They were doing all the reasoning and thinking business for those good people, and they were obedient. But now comes the materialistic scientists who say that everybody has thinking machinery and reasoning appara- tuses and each has a right to use it. The fanatical ty- rants say we can do nothing more with the people as they are rebellious. We feel sorry for our business has gone. We thank Thee for our privilege and pleasure we had in dealing out justice in thy name to crucify, to burn here- tics and hang witches. But now we are powerless to give those infernal materialistic scientists their just due. 152 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL Will Thou see that they do not escape from the bottom- less pit, then our minds will be so much at ease. 284. PERSECUTORS. If we consult Tacitus and other celebrated historians in regard to Moses and his nation, we shall see that they are considered a horde of bandits. As Moses was in- structed in the esoteric science of the Egyptians, it was not difficult for him to inspire veneration and attachment for himself in the rustic and ignorant children of Jacob and to induce them to accept in their misery, the disci- pline he wishes to give them. But we also find in other histories, long after the dispersion from their native country, the Jews residing on the Rhine and in other parts of Europe, enjoyed a high civilization when our an- cestors were barbarians. In Spain their fortunes were confiscated, their bodies were tortured, they endured all the horrors of that satanic inquisition, Auto da fe, the cruel persecutors in time past and in Russia to-day. They bear the name of Christians but they are disciples of Satan. Religious bigotry, racial hatred, and Jew bait- ers are relics of barbarism. The patriotism of the Jew, none can question. He has endured persecution worthy of the noblest martyrs. In their patient endurance of unspeakable wrongs, they illustrate the ideal character set forth by Jesus Christ. 285. THE FOUNDER OF CHRISTIANITY. The founder of Christianity taught the universal father- hood of God and the universal brotherhood of man. Is there among men any bond of unity of common origin EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 153 so assured as to constitute a fraternal relation? A fail- ure of practical belief in the fatherhood of God has been accompanied by disregard, even of contempt, for the brotherhood of man. Jingoism, which seems every- where to be spreading, is in open defiance of humanity. In its thirst of expansion, it tramples under foot the restraints of the Christian code. It is accompanied and partly fed by a thirst of gain, turning the commercial world into a battle-field, which had hitherto been in some measure, balanced and repressed by spiritual interest and aspirations. 286. THE SELFISH INSTINCT. The church has succeeded in allying itself with riches and abandoning the brotherhood of man of which it started and concentrated all its interest in the life beyond the grave, and subordinated all its social, moral, eccles- iastical and political machinery to the end of personal salvation in the next world. The supremacy of the in- terest in the discarnate life led to the neglect of the most important duties in the present. The selfish instinct of ancient individual life became an absorbing and passion- ate personal interest in individual salvation ; and the social life of the community, whose regeneration it started to effect by the moral reformation of the individual, was abandoned for personal happiness beyond the grave. To purchase this the earthly life had to be made ascetic, and external social duties were the price of this transmortal salvation. The outcome of this movement was the social, political and moral orgies of the Middle Ages when every principle of Christianity was sacrificed to persecution, bad government, hypocrisy, superstition, barbarism, and 154 EVOLUTION OF TH E HUMAN SOUL such debaucheries as a low economic development would permit. Among the lower strata of society the original conception prevailed sufficiently to preserve social sys- tem ; it maintained itself in poverty, ignorance and super- stition, while the intellectual played the game of tyranny and hypocrisy. 287. RENAISSANCE. The Renaissance put an end to this. It released from bondage the three most potent forces in modern civili- zation, political liberty, industrial development and scien- tific method. They followed the Reformation. They re- vived culture after ancient models, while they preserved some of the humanitarian enthusiasm which had been the teaching but not the practice of many centuries. The consequence has been the application of morals to the improvement of the present life. 288. INDIFFERENCE. The movement was accompanied by the growth of skepticism and materialism which have permeated all the strata of cultivated and intellectual society. The whole theistic system and belief in a future life was slowly sapped by it, and as all the ideals of the medieval period, including its view of immortality and personal salvation, were the property of the less cultivated the natural distinctions which arise from the difference of culture and their aristocratic associations have impli- cated an indifference to the question of a personal sur- vival after death of the body. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 155 289. COSMIC FORCES. Materialism has been to a great extent the cause of this. Science is disinterested and accepts the truth whether it hurts or heals. But now some of the great materialistic scientists discover spirit in all matter, they are studying the conscious and unconscious mind. Elec- tricity and ether are in everything animate and inanimate, even the most solids. There is nothing solid in all na- ture, everything is porous ; the cosmic forces penetrate everything. We know and see these powers are psychi- cal and that the unconscious mental powers guide and govern the functions and organs of the material body, and that the unconscious mental power is the individual- ized, indestructible and ever living soul. CHAPTER XVin. Priestcraft and Kingcraft in All Ages. 290. DOMINATE. Kingcraft and priestcraft were born in the desire to dominate, to gain wealth and power. Both began about the same time, in early ages, to exercise their baneful in- fluence over the people. Nimrod is supposed to be the first monarch who, not satisfied with the mild patriarchal rule over his brethren, collected armies and dispossessed the peaceful children of Shem of their territories. Priest- craft, it is evident to many indubitable signs, was busily at work at the same time. It was invented by knaves who contrived to brutalize the people and then to exalt themselves upon the ignorance which they had originated and cherished. The history of priestcraft among the ancient and modern idolators in various countries of the world is about the same. Priestcraft supports kingcraft in the oppression and miseries of the people, the unyield- ing opponents of every measure which may extend the rights of men and the principles of civil and religious freedom. It is a monster dispatched from hell to earth, and first charms to sleep and then devours its unpitied victims. 291. THE GODS. We have in all pagan mythologies a triad of principal gods and numerous demigods. The Greeks had their triad gods, Jupiter, Neptune and Plato. The Hindu, Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. The Goths, Odin, Vile and Ve. The EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL 157 Persians, Syrians, Egyptians and others had their triad gods. Emperor Constantine murdered his wife Fausta and his eldest son Crispus the same year he lifted Chris- tianity into power, and convened the council at Nice in the year 325 to ascertain if Jesus Christ was God or man. Other councils convened in 381, 451 and 1274. These councils made triad gods. Had it not been for these councils we might have been without a trinity even unto this day. 292. JESUS APPEARED. Jesus appeared, the career of paganism was checked, the fate of Judaism was sealed. A religion was placed before man filled with beauty and philanthropy. Jesus had no selfishness, no desire to dominate, his teaching was to break all bonds of body and soul and to cast down every temporal and spiritual tyranny. He represented the universal spirit as the father of all mankind, and all men as brethren born to one universal love. He himself was the living personification of his principles. 293. TWIN BROTHERS. One would have thought that from this epoch the arm of priestcraft would have been broken. Emperor Con- stantine embraced Christianity. As the martial tyranny of ancient Rome, which had subdued a great part of the physical world, was coming to an end, a new tyranny com- menced in the form of priestcraft, more terrible and hate- ful than the old, because it was one which sought to crush into everlasting childishness the human mind and to rule it in its fatuity with mysteries and terrors. With the downfall of the civil power of the Roman empire 158 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL science and literature also began to disappear. It has been the practice of the pagan priest in all countries to shut up the true knowledge, the esoteric science, among themselves. Scarcely had the persecution of the pagan emperors ceased when the Christian Church became in- undated with corruption and superstition of every kind. Up rose the spirit of priestcraft in Rome and assumed all the ancient and inflated claims. They wrapped the sim- ple truths of the gospel in mysteries. As the Brahmans forbade any except their own order to read the sacred Vedas, they too shut up the Bible. They made the peo- ple ignorant by every act of insinuation, intimidation and fraud. They raised themselves to the rank of temporal princes and lorded it over the kings with insolent im- punity, the Ban which was employed by the priests of Odin they adopted and made its terrors felt throughout the whole Christian world. Their ignorance increased, even in their own order. Under this system so complete- ly became the Bible a strange book that when in after ages men began to inquire and to expose their delusions a monk warned his audience to beware of these heretics who had invented a new language called Greek, and had written in it a book called the New Testament, full of the most damnable doctrine. The Protestant priestcraft in England, Scotland, Ireland and other countries com- bined with kingcraft, and where Roman butchers slaught- ered hundreds of heretics the Protestants slaughtered and tormented thousands. State religion in all countries is a matter of history. Kingcraft and priestcraft have al- ways been twin brothers, and are so at the present time in some countries. They have always been afraid to have the whole people educated. They know the ignorant EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 159 need obscurity, mysteries, fables, miracles and incredible things which keep their brains perpetually at work. Ro- mances, idle stories, tales of ghosts, goblins and witches have more charm for the vulgar than true narration. 294. A TRINITY OF CORRUPTION. In the French convention against the death of King Louis, Thomas Paine said, "We will kill the king but not the man. We will destroy the monarchy but not the monarch." Compare those grand words of Thomas Paine with kingcraft that makes slaves, priestcraft that makes ignoramuses and idiots, and trustcraft that destroys the individuality in man and ruins its competitors. They are a trinity of corruption. The two former crafts have been practiced extensively in every state religion. Pagan, Jew- ish or Christian, and are in full blast at the present time in some countries. The latter craft appears to be a new rapacious monster that does not crucify, burn or hang victims, it only robs, crushes, destroys business and leaves victims to starvation. 295. WILLIAM PENN. The illustrious William Penn led his persecuted breth- ren from English priestcraft and kingcraft to America and founded one of the states of our noble country which has risen to a height of prosperity, which is the natural fruit of liberty and stands an every day opprobrium of priestcraft and kingcraft. The Puritan fathers were in favor of universal education. They built schoolhouses. They believed every man should know how to read and write, then he would find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. The new world had drifted away 160 EVOLUTION OF T HE HUMAN SOUL from superstition. The men in 1776 retired God from politics but not from religion. Religion should have the influence and effect upon mankind that it necessarily has, that is, charity, morality, justice, universal love, the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God ; no more. Our great men of 1776 said, "Liberty, Equality and Fra- ternity." These three words are written in the heart of every loyal American citizen, and no craft will ever dare to tread upon our heads, nor trample our flag. When uni- versal education is established, priestcraft and kingcraft will be things of the past; superstition and fear will be eradicated from the minds of the people and terror will cease. Then jugglery and superstition will have no more power to make slaves and simpletons of the people. 296. A PESTILENTIAL INFLUENCE. The world has been blasted in all ages by evil princi- ples. Thus through this pestilential influence in India priestcraft exhibits a marvelous spectacle. Priests re- sorted to the daring fraud of representing Menu as not making all men of the same blood but created four dif- fering tribes of men. First, the Brahman, from his mouth; second, the Kettri, or Rajahs, from his arm; third, the Bice, or merchant, from his thigh ; and fourth, the Sooder or laboring man, from his foot. Thus, this doctrine once received as true, created an everlasting and impassable bar between each tribe by divine authority. That it should not be endangered, the land of India was declared holy ; and the Hindoos were forbidden, by all the terrors of temporal and eternal penalties, to leave it. The priests represented themselves as an inviolable race, divine viceroys on earth. They divided the whole com- EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 161 munity into four castes. They wrote a book and entitled it "The Institutes of Menu" — ^the divine son of Brahma. This book contained the whole code of their religious laws, which, as proceeding inspired from the divinity, were to last for all time — ^be forever and indissolubly binding on every Hindu, and not to be violated in the smallest degree except on pain of forfeiting all civil privi- leges and enjoyments of life itself, and of incurring the torments of hell. These castes were to preserve forever their respective stations. Emperor Akbar, desiring to learn the Hindoo tenets, applied to the Brahman priest and was refused. Thereupon he had the brother of his faithful minister, Abdul Fazil, a youth brought up with a Brahman under a feigned character, but, after a resi- dence of ten years, and at the moment of being about to return to court, owing to his attachment to the Brah- man's daughter, he confessed the fraud and would have been instantly killed by his preceptor had he not en- treated him for mercy on his knees and bound himself to the most solemn oaths not to translate the Vedas, nor to reveal the mysteries of the Brahman creed. These oaths he faithfully kept during the life of the old Brah- man priest, but afterward he conceived himself absolved from them, and to him we owe the publication of the real contents of those sacred volumes. Priestcraft is the prince of darkness. It has always boasted of divine au- thority from heaven and it does so at the present time. There were many good priests in the Pagan, Jewish and Christian religion but I am only speaking of priests filled with duplicity, trickery and selfishness. 162 EVOLUT ION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 297. THE JEWISH PRIESTHOOD. The Jewish priesthood claimed to be expressly or- dained of heaven. The spirit of priestcraft began in Aaron, with idolatry accompanied by most pitiful eva- sions ; it showed itself in its prime in the sons of Eli in shameless peculation and lewdness, and it ended in the crucifixion of Christ. Eli was very old and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel. When the chief priest crying out against Christ, the most meek and pure and beneficent man that ever existed, "Away with him, cru- cify him" we are silenced and satisfied forever of the rooted and incurable malignancy of priestcraft. If God himself charged a priestly hierarchy with corruption they would tell him that he told an untruth. The priestcraft who mainly contributed to annihilate them forever as a people, and to disperse them through all regions, their victims, the Jewish people, still walk before our eyes a perpetual and fearful testimony against priestcraft. It has always persecuted them and does at the present time in some countries. Look at Russia. Even while I am writing this book the fanatic Christians are killing thou- sands upon thousands of Jews. In Odessa refugees say 15,000 Jews were killed and multilated in three days. Five hundred persons lost their lives in Jewish massacres at Turish and Volkynia which were incited by a priest who called on their Christian dupes to exterminate the Jews. Priestcraft is one of the greatest curses which has afflicted this earth. Priests have in all ages availed them- selves of the superstition of the people for their interest- ed motives and nothing better attested than the crimes and delusions of that order of men. EVOLUTION OF TH E HUMAN SOUI/ 163 298. THE INDIANS. The North American Indians, who preserved most of their liberty, their simpHcity of life, and sentiment, wor- shipped no triad god or demigods, but only the great spirit; they retained many and very clear traditions of the primeval world. Their patriarchal forefathers worshipped the same universal spirit before priestcraft was born. 299. HYPOCRITICAL HAPPINESS. Priestcraft, from the Brahmans to the present time, has plunged whole nations into everlasting sluggishness of ecclesiastical despotism to secure its own happiness, a happiness which none but priestcraft could have any conception of. Those hypocritical monsters have crushed genius, they have crushed body, they have crushed soul. Priestcraft and kingcraft are the same to-day as in the past, and some nations feel the burden of it at the pres- ent time, viz., Russia, Turkey, India and other parts of the world. I canot conceive of greater crime against humanity than the practice of priestcraft. When that man's soul leaves the body will it go to everlasting pun- ishment? No it will not, the terrible pain, remorse, suf- fering, and the length of time may seem eternity to him, but he will be released and with that tyrannical character he has formed, the law of affinity will surely carry that soul to his kin, the barbarians in the next reincarnation, where he will forget the sins done in the body and com- mence new material life again to either rise higher or fall deeper than ever. CHAPTER XIX. How to Live the Natural Age of Man. 300. ORGANIZED MATERIAL. We are formed by organs developed out of protoplasm. The development of the human being in protoplasm, or in a cell that is a thin wall covering protoplasm. All the organized material has more or less of the life principle in it just in proportion to density. In the development of the individual to maturity there is a lessening of the protoplasm in the structure and an increase of the formed matter. The organs of the body are developed in this way to give rigidity and strength to the internal and less formed, the bones, nerves, muscles, skin and hair. 301. THE EARTHY MATTER. This increase of formed matter goes on up to the time of maturity. Then for the time being the balance re- mains between the formed material and the protoplasm of the structure. The nutrition now supplies the waste and so long as there is no more formed matter deposit- ed the whole organization remains the same in composi- tion, structure and physical condition, but if the nutrition of the system is increased, beyond the immediate amount to supply the waste, the earthy matter of the nutrition is deposited in all the structure, especially the arteries, veins and capillary system. The arteries and capillaries lose their elasticity and the walls of the arteries undergo a retrograde metamorphosis. The material, having more EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 165 formed matter, becomes less elastic and less fitted.to con- vey the blood from the heart to the different structures of the body. 302. THE ARTERIES. The arteries when in a normal state with right propor- tion of protoplasm and formed matter have elasticity that helps to carry the circulation through the organism, the heart sends the blood to the aorta which is expanded by the impulse of the heart, the arteries getting smaller and smaller till they become the capillaries, the intermediate circulatory system between the arteries and veins. 303. EVIDENCE OF OLD AGE. The first evidence of old age is a hardening of the arteries and capillaries, which destroys the elasticity and interferes with the strength of the circulation of the blood. The carbonaceous food is in excess and deposited in the tissues especially under the skin in the form of fat ; the heart becoming weak and the tissues of the body less and less elastic because they contain more earthy matter, and all the vital functions of the system are im- peded. 304. IMMEDIATE WANTS. We must limit the supply of nutrition to the immediate wants of the system and encourage the action of the ex- cretory organs. We must drink pure water to make sol- uble the earthy constituents of excretion. Old age is a walling in of the protoplasm. When the normal struc- ture is finished the amount of nutrition is just sufficient for the needs of the body and not in excess. Thus would 166 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMTAN SOtlT, old age be extended. When the waste remains in the body the body ages under the burdens imposed upon it. Keep the arteries young and the body remains young. If the arteries are overcrowded the body begins to lose elasticity of tissue and the bones grow heavier, all of which are indications of advancing years. 305. THE APPROACH OF OLD AGE. The approach of old age may be prevented by eating only such food as is nutritious and soluble. The stomach should not be given material that will deposit earthy mat- ter in the tissues as uric acid. Uric acid is the result of imperfect oxidation of nitrogenous material of food found largely in meats, tea, coffee and alcoholic drinks. Use all sparingly. Not a particle of food in excess of the amount necessary to meet the requirements of the system should be taken, because any excess only weakens the tissues. The deposits often found in the body, such as diseased fat, tumors, etc., are all results of this cause. 306. MIND OVER MATTER. Fresh air and plenty of exercise are vital essentials to good health, not less important than abstemiousness in diet. Bathe often, it helps the excretory ducts to carry off the overburdening matter from the system. Stand erect, sit erect, breathe correctly, live active, busy, use- ful lives, sleep eight to nine hours according to your need. The simple life is the only life worth living. Sim- ple food and simple desires make a healthy body with sound mind and spirit. Fling away all that is flimsy and false, unreal thinking and doing. The common ways EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 167 of life now are too artificial, our unreal happiness is to get wealth at the expense of our brother man. Some know only one commandment and that one they make themselves. All such do not seem to realize that God sees and knows everything. We must not forget mind over matter is essential to longevity. Let our religion not only be one for Sundays but an every day religion. Let our objective mind always make good suggestions to our sub- jective mind. Our soul will then act accordingly. Our religion will then be an everyday religion, our souls will then have absolute control over sin and matter, we will be governed by a clear conscience and live in conformity with the universal spirit. Life can then be extended to a period of years now reached only by a few. The an- cient esoteric physiologists say nature designed that the natural age of man should be one hundred twenty-six years. But I think with correct living and doing life may be extended to one hundred and fifty or more years. CHAPTER XX. Psychometry. 307. PROF. BUCHANAN. The faculty which enables a person in an abnormal state of mind to receive from any object held in the hand or against the forehead or other parts of the body im- pressions of the character or appearance of the individual or any other object with ^yhich it has previously been in contact; a fragment of any ancient building, etc., will recall its history and even the scenes which transpired within or about it. This faculty is called by its discov- erer, Prof. J. R. Buchanan of Louisville, Ky., Psychome- try. To him the world is indebted for this most impor- tant addition to Psychological Science. 308. PSYCHOMETERS. The existence of this faculty was first experimentally demonstrated in 1841. It has since been verified by thou- sands of psychometers in different parts of the world. It proves that every occurrence in nature, no matter how minute or unimportant, leaves its indelible impress upon physical nature. As there has been no appreciable mole- cular disturbance, the only inference possible is that their images have been produced by that invisible, universal force, ether. 309. PROPHESYING PRIESTESSES. Herodotus tells us that in the eighth tower of Belus, Babylon, used by the Sacerdotal Astrologers, there was EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 169 an uppermost room, a sanctuary, where the prophesying priestesses slept to receive communications from the gods. Besides the couch stood a table of gold, upon which were laid various stones which, Monetho informs us, were mostly aerolites. The priestesses developed the prophetic vision in themselves by pressing one or more of these stones against their heads and bosoms. The same operations took place at Thebes and at Pa- tare in Lycia. This same kind of knowledge was ac- quired, according to Draper, by the ancient Chaldeans. All this would indicate that psychometry was known and extensively practiced by ancient priests. 310. PROF. DENTON. The eminent geologist, Prof. Denton, noted many ex- amples of psychometrical power which Mrs. Denton pos- sessed in a marked degree. A fragment of Cicero's house at Tusculum enabled her to describe, without the slightest intimation as to the nature of the object — the stone at her forehead — not only the great orator's sur- roundings, but also the previous owner of the building. A fragment of marble from the old Christian Church of Smyrna brought before her its congregation and officia- ting priests. Specimens from Nineveh, China, Jerusalem, Greece and elsewhere over the world brought up scenes in the life of various personages whose ashes had been scattered thousands of years ago. In many cases Prof. Denton verified the statements by reference to historical records. A fragment of the tooth of some antediluvian animal caused the seeress Mrs. Denton to perceive the creature as it was when alive and even appeared to live for a brief time its life and experienced its sensations. 170 EVOLUTION OP THE HUMAN SOUL The images of the events are embedded, it appears, in that all permeating, universal and ever retaining medium which the philosopher calls the soul of the world. 311. world's picture gallery. It is now admitted that the universal ether pervades all things in nature, even the most solid. It is beginning to be admitted, also, that this preserves the image of all things which transpire. From the dawn of light upon this infant globe, when 'round its cradle the steamy cur- tains hung, to this moment, nature has been busy photo- graphing everything. What a picture gallery is our whole world. 312. THE INNER EYE. The psychometer sees with the inner eye, his soul. Un- less his will power is very strong, unless he has thorough- ly trained himself to that particular phenomena, and his knowledge of the capabilities of his sight are profound, his perception of places, persons and events must neces- sarily be very confused. But in the case of hypnotism, in which this same psychometric faculty is developed, the operator, whose will holds that of the subject under control, can force him to concentrate his attention upon a given picture long enough to observe the minute details. 313. IMPRINTS UPON THE WORLD. Evidently scientists are probing the insecure ground of materialism. It seems that this photographic influence pervades all nature and imprints upon the world around us our features as they are modified by various passions EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SO UL 171 and thus fill nature with impressions of all our actions, and possible of being visible under right conditions. 314. ETERNAL IMPRESSION. If psychometry is one of the grandest proofs of the in- destructibility of matter, retaining eternally the impres- sions of the outward world, the possession of that fac- ulty by our inner sight is a still greater one in favor of the immortality of man's individual soul, capable of dis- cerning events which took place thousands of years ago. 315. THE CHALDEANS. The wonderful discovery of scientists which we have alluded to seems also to have been known to the wise men among the Chaldeans, who expressed the selfsame idea about ether and in language singularly like scientific terms of our day. It is said that from ether have come all things, that the images of all the germs, or of the re- mains of all visible forms, and even ideas, retain an im- pression in the world around us. It appears that modern discoveries have been anticipated many thousand years ago by what we presume to call our simple minded an- cestors. 316. THE ALL-SEEING EYE. As the soul is a part of the All-seeing Eye, it always sees all images or impressions which surround us. But the soul also possesses creative energy; it evolves or creates apparitions, spirits, angels, goblins or anything that may be suggested by the objective mind, when that mind is in abeyance. In a light grade of trance, or natural sleep, we can remember images and apparitions in our dreams after becoming fully awake. CHAPTER XXI. The Unconscious Mind in Education. 317. EDUCATION. Education is a formation of habit. A great function of the educator is to secure that acts shall be so regularly, purposefully and methodically sown that the child shall reap the habits of the good life in thinking and doing with the minimum of conscious effort. Educate the child in these habits and his future life will follow them without the constant wear and tear of the moral effort of decision. All the minor moralities of life may be made habitual to the child. He should be brought up to be courteous, prompt, punctual, neat, considerate; he would then practice these virtues without conscious effort. It is much easier to behave in the way he is used to than to originate a new line of conduct. The formation of habits is the chief means whereby we modify the original hereditary disposition of the child until it becomes the character of the man. 318. THE DUTY OF PARENTS. The duty of parents is to sustain a child's inner life with ideas as they sustain the body with food. The child has affinities with evil as well as with good; therefore, hedge him about from any chance lodgment of evil sug- gestion. The initial idea begets subsequent ideas, there- fore take care that children get right primary ideas on the great relations and duties of life. Things practiced from youth up gradually form part of the character. EVO LUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 173 319. THE CHILD. Children should look on punishment not as the arbi- tary affliction of wrath or passion but as the automatic action of cause and effect ; and when they get the habit of this discipline it will be seen in its true and corrective light. 320. TWO TYPES OF MAN. A man whose conscious or objective mind is better trained than his unconscious or subjective mind, will only betray bad manners wh^n off guard; his conscious actions will be superior to his instincts, as we say, he will appear better than he is; while, on the other hand, a man whose tinconscious or subjective mind has been thoroughly trained and educated will have better in- stincts than conscious actions, and he will be at his best when most unconscious. We all know these two types and can clearly see the difference between the results of training the conscious and unconscious. 321. SCHOOL AND HOME. Schools as a rule train the former, the home the latter. The home is the greatest school to form character either for good or evil. 322. TWIN SISTERS. True science and true religion are twin sisters. The mind should be well grounded in nature, before it studies art. Natural theology is the impression of the Divine in nature, and should precede doctrinal theology. 174 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 323. THE MOST IMPORTANT. The impressions which man receives in childhood are the most important, as they are more easily impressed and retained best. Habits can be formed unconsciously in childhood of truth, unselfishness, reverence, modesty, cleanliness, punctuality, attention, neatness, endurance, courage, self-control, humility, obedience, politeness, dili- gence, purity, courtesy, and cheerfulness ; or by bad train- ing of each and all of their opposites. If this fact be weighed carefully it will be seen what an unlimited in- fluence for good or evil this education has. 324. PARENTS THE MODEL. "Education is a life," not only a living process but an inspiring life to be lived by the parent, who is to be the ideal, the example, the model, the inspirer. The best training for boys does not consist of precepts and rules, but in letting them continually see some one do that which he admonishes others to do. It is futile to sur- round the child with a truthful atmosphere, to give him the habit of accurate statement, if he hears the father and mother lying and deceiving. 325. LIVING ACTION. The parents must exhibit in themselves in living ac- tion those principles they are seeking to imprint uncon- sciously in the child's mind. The mother's tender care, the father's kind seriousness, the relationship of the family and the order of the house must exist in all purity and worthiness before the child's ingenuous eyes, because EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 175 he judges only what he observes, because what he sees is to him the only thing possible, the pattern for his initiation. 326. UNCONSCIOUSLY TRANSFERRED. The order or disorder prevailing in the house is un- consciously transferred by the child to the mental and moral state of the world- 327. MENTAL INSTRUCTION. As mental instruction is most effectively imparted by visible illustrations, so is moral teaching best given by means of living examples. And where is the child to find these living examples, if not in the home? The child's models must be those who are always about him, those upon whom he depends and those whom he loves. Parents stand in relation to their children in somewhat the relation of a hypnotizer to his patient. Whatever the mother suggests to the child the child unquestion- ably receives. If the life of the family is permeated by a noble piety, a sincere religion will take root in the heart of the children. To the child the family should be the symbol of the order in the world ; from the parents one should derive by idealization the characteristics of the Deity. God is appreciated in the way the parent is appreciated ; the child's ideas of the Heavenly Father are moulded unconsciously by the earthly one. And on the whole subject of child-training, we may direct attention to the profound force of the threefold maxim of the great Teacher, "Offend not, despise not, hinder not one of these little ones." 176 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 328. THE JAPANESE GOD OF MORALITY. The Japanese God of Morality is a part of the national life, it is implanted into their unconscious mind, they live it in their daily lives and their children get the right primary ideas from the surroundings in their homes on the duties of life. Here it is: Trustfulness and Justice. Diligence in one's profession. Decorum and propriety. Love and loyalty between master and servant.' Gallantry and bravery. Simplicity and frugahty. Contempt of meanness. Some very good folks go to Japan, take the holy Book with them, spend the whole or part of their lives and try to wean the people from a religion that has served them well for ages. We call the Japanese heathen. Would it not be a good thing to import some of those heathen? They do not need to bring their moral code along with them. Our Christian moral code is not inferior to theirs; it cannot be any better. We have enough of the teachings of that code. What we do need is some one to mould that code practically into our daily lives, then the unconscious mind of children would take it up and we would then be like the Christians in the first centuries, or we may look to the Quakers, the ordinary designations of the Society of Friends, for our model in virtue and probity. They surpass any society of people as a whole that I have seen. I have lived amongst them and know whereof I speak. CHAPTER XXII. Scientific Discovery of the Universal Spirit. 329. THE MATERIALISTIC SCHOOL. In 1874 when the Materialistic School was at the height of its influence, both the scientific and religious world seemed to have been brought to a momentary standstill. Then one of the most eminent scientific men spoke as follows : 330. A CONFESSION. "Abandoning all disguise, the confession which I feel bound to make before you, is that I prolong the vision backward across the boundary of experimental evidence and discover in matter, which we in our ignorance and not withstanding our professed reverence for its creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form of life." 331. ELECTRICITY CONTAINS A THOUGHT. The great savant. Dr. Jobard of Paris, years ago in speaking of ether, startled the world of science by the following declaration : "I hold a discovery which fright- ens me. There are two kinds of electricity, one brute and blind, produced by the contact of metals and acids; (the gross purgation) the other is intelligent and clair- voyant. Electricity has bifurcated itself in the hands of Galvani, Nobili, and Matteuci. The brute force of the current has followed Jacobi, Bonelli and Moncal, while the intellectual one was following Bois-Robert, 178 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL Thilorier and the Chevalier Duplanty. The electric ball, or globular electricity, contains a thought which dis- obeys Newton and Marietta to follow its own freaks. We have in the annals of the Academy thousands of proofs of the intelligence of the electric bolt. * * * But I remark that I am permitting myself to become indis- creet. A little more and I should have disclosed to you the key which is about to discover for us the universal spirit." 332. PROFESSOR ELIE DE BEAUMONT. The great French geologist. Professor Elie de Beau- mont, says : "I am not prepared to concede that we have in chemicals, physical processes, the whole secret of ani- mal life. Still we are in many respects approximating the phenomena of the organic world to those of the mineral kingdom, and we at the same time learn that these so far interest and depend upon each other that we begin to see a certain truth underlying the notion of those old philosophers, who extended to the mineral world the notion of a vital force, which lead them to speak of the earth as a great living organism, and to look upon the various changes of its air, its waters and its rocky depths as processes belonging to the life of our planet." 333. ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHERS. Esoteric philosophers held that everything in nature is but a materialization of spirit. The Eternal First Cause is latent spirit, and it was with matter from the beginning. "In the beginning was the word * * * and the word was God." While conceding the idea of such a God to be an unthinkable abstraction to human reason, EVOLUT ION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 179 it is claimed that the unerring humor, instinct, grasped it. It is a reminiscence of something concrete to it, though intangible to our physical senses. With the first idea which emanated from the double sexed and hitherto inactive Deity the first motion was communicated to the whole universe, and the electric thrill was instantaneous- ly felt throughout the boundless space. Spirit begat force and force matter ; and thus the latent deity mani- fested itself as a creative energy. 334. EVOLUTION. But though spirit-matter was from all eternity, it was in the latent state. The evolution of our visible universe must have had a beginning. To our intellect, this be- ginning may seem so remote as to appear to us eternity itself, a period inexpressible in language or figures. Also evolution of the individualized and indestructible soul of man must have had a beginning. 335. MODERN AND ANCIENT SCIENTISTS. As the materialists are honest searchers after truth the altitude assumed by some of those great scientists toward psychical phenomena being perfectly defined and have discovered in matter the universal spirit. The deeper the research of our modern scientist the more often he comes face to face with the discoveries of the ancient. The diflFerence between the scientists of our time and the esoteric scientists of olden times is, that the latter put their discoveries under the bushel measure and the former put it on the top and give to the whole world the re- sults of their labor. The scientists in bygone ages, 180 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL acknowledged the same universal spirit as some of our modern scientists have discovered in matter and taught it in their esoteric schools. Jesus proclaimed to the whole world the same universal spirit as his God and our God, and his Father and our Father. Some say Brahma is God, others say Jehovah is God, and again others say Ali is God. But Jesus says the Universal Spirit is God of all mankind and that is in conformity with scientific investigation. 336. OUR ANCESTOR. God, the universal spirit, is omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience. It is male and female. Why do we call it our Father only and not our Parents, Father and Mother ? Our ancestor, the Moneron, inherited its divine potentialities from the divine mind, the universal spirit. The mind in the moneron differs in no essential from the soul in man, except in degree: Man is endowed with the faculty of intuitional perception of the natural laws of the soul. By this means man is enabled to recognize when once presented any truth which is essential to the welfare of the human soul, which is endowed with a per- fect memory. It is the seat of emotions, it has the power to communicate and receive intelligence in other than through the recognized channels of the senses. The soul has faculties that are of no use in a physical life, and It follows that those faculties pertain to a life or existence untrammeled by physical limitations. That man is heir to a future life is irresistible. CHAPTER XXIII. In Union with the Universal Spirit — God. 337. SELFISHNESS. Selfishness is the root, of all sin, error and crime, and ignorance is the basis of all selfishness. It is the ignorant man who seeks his own ends at the expense of the greater whole. The really wise man is never selfish. He sees and recognizes the fact that he is a single member of our great body, and therefore seeks nothing for himself that he would not equally seek for all mankind. Heretics are God's greatest servants. They are among the true servants of mankind. Jesus was one of the greatest of heretics. He allowed himself to be bound by no estab- lished teachings and dogma. He is pre-eminently a type of the universal. He always spoke to the highest, truest and best sentiment in men. He knew and recognized the God within each of us because he had realized it himself. He ate with sinners. The Scribes and Pharisees said that was abominable. They were so wrapped up in their own conceits, their own self-centeredness, hence their own ignorance, that they never found the God within them- selves, they never dreamed that it was the real life of even sinners. 338. THE GREAT CENTRAL FACT. The great central fact of human life is the thread that runs through all religion or psychical sciences, it is love, the universal love, the Fatherhood of God, the brother- hood of man and the consciousness of God within us — our immortal soul. X82 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 339. THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES. The great fundamental principles of all religions are the same. There is only one religion, says the writer in the Persian scriptures : "Whatever road I take joins the highway that leads to Thee." "The pure man re- spects every form of religion," says the Buddhist. "We are all brothers." "The doctrine of our master," says the Chinese, "consisted solely in integrity of heart. The broadminded see the truth in different religions, the nar- row minded see only the differences." The Hindu says, "The narrow minded ask, is this man a stranger or is he of our tribe ? But to those in whom love dwells the whole world is but one family." "Are we not all children of one Father?" says Jesus. 340. CENTERED IN DEITY. Materialism leads to pessimism. A knowledge of our spiritual self working in and through us is a power that works for righteousness and leads to optimism. Pes- simism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power. The one who is centered in Deity is the one who not only outrides every storm, but who through the conscious power that is in him faces storm with calmness and serenity. 341. AWAKENED TO THE TRUTH. Gautama Siddhartha said, "I have awakened to the truth and I am resolved to accomplish my purpose — verily I shall become a Biddha." It was this that brought him into the life of the enlightened one as well as into the realization of Heaven right here in this life. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 183 That this realization and life is within the possibilities of all, here and now, was his teaching. Jesus said, "Know ye not that I must be about my Father's busi- ness?" Making this the one great purpose of his life he came into the full and complete realization. "I and my Father are one." He thus came into the full realiza- tion of the Kingdom of Heaven, and all who wish the same should begin right here and now. That all could come into this same realization and life, here and now was his teaching, and all such can also say : "I and my Father are one." It was this that made them both the Light Bearers to millions of people. 342. PEOPLE ARE IN BONDAGE. The Hindu sage Manu said, "He who in his own soul perceives the supreme soul in all beings and acquires equanimity toward them all attains the highest bliss." Athanasius said, "Even we may become gods walking about in the flesh." Gautama, who became the Buddha, said, "People are in bondage because they have not yet removed the idea doing away with all sense of separate- ness." To recognize the union of self with the infinite is the spirit running through the lives of all. The medie- val mystic and Jesus said this same truth. Faith or be- lief in our own immortal soul or self is to enter into union with God and thereafter practice universal love. 343. FULLY REALIZE THE TRUTH. When we fully realize the truth, we will then see that it makes no difference what particular form of religion one holds if we are true to the vitail principles which run 184 EVOLUTION O F THE HUMAN SOUL through all. When we make it the paramount fact in our lives, we will find that minor differences, narrow preju- dices, ceremonies and all like absurdities will fall away by virtue of their insignificance. 344. BROTHERLY LOVE. The men and women who have entered into the realm of wisdom and brotherly love, and hence into the realm of true peace and joy, live good moral lives in harmony with this universal spirit. It makes no difiFerence to them if reincarnation is the truth or not, the great law of affinity will carry them to their reward. It makes, how- ever, a tremendous difference to the sinner, for the same great law will carry him to his kin, and it will be his lot to suffer everlasting punishment or reincarnation. 345. THE WISE MAN. Do not think we will get even with our enemy by pay- ing him back in his own coin. If we do this, we will get even with him by sinking ourself to his level and both will suffer by it. We can give him love for hatred, kind- ness for ill-treatment, and get even with him by lifting him to a higher level. Remember we can never help another without by that very act helping ourselves. The; truly wise man and woman will recognize no one as an enemy, and thus we may become a savior of error- making human beings. We need more gentleness, sym- pathy and compassion in our common human life. Then we will neither blame nor condemn. Instead of blaming or condemning we will sympathize and comfort one an- other. EYOLUTIOX OF THE Ht'MAX SOUL 185 346. UNIVERSAL LOVE. Asceticism, frenzy and like distractions of mind are unessential to religion, but they often lead to insanity. Do good to those who hate you is truly a scientific fact, a natural law. It was Christ's injunction, "Do to others as you wish them to do to you." The one word love, universal love, is the true and only religion. Evolution of the soul up to the universal love is the highest state it can attain. Then it is one in union with the universal spirit, God. 347. THE SINNER. The whole human life is cause and effect. There is no such thing in it as chance, nor is there in the whole universe. The immutable laws of nature which govern matter and spirit. As matter does reincarnate so must spirit, for they both are a product of nature. The soul of the sinner will reincarnate to save himself from ever- lasting punishment, and the evolution of his soul will keep on in reincarnate forms until he is perfect and in harmony with his Father God. 348. EQUITY. God is love, mercy and justice. The immutable laws of nature which He Himself has instituted is justice and equity, and reincarnation is love and mercy. 349. INTUITION. Intuition is an inner spiritual sense. It is the voice of the soul. We can show forth the divinity within our- selves simply by the way we live, by example and not by 186 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL precept, by living, not by preaching, by doing, not by professing, by living the true life and not by dogmatizing as to how it should be lived. There is no contagion equal to the contagion of life. Whatever we sow that shall we also reap, and each thing sown produces of its kind. When we recognize ourselves as one with the spirit of infinite love, we will only see the good in all and we will realize that in a sense we are one with each other. When we come into a recognition of this fact we can then do no harm to any one or anything. Love and its kindred emotions are normal and natural and in accord- ance with the eternal order of the universal spirit. 3SO- CONQUERED SIN AND MATTER. When one recognizes himself in union with the uni- versal spirit there will be no worrying, no hatred, no fear, no jealousy, no sorrowing, and no grieving. Thereafter no sordid grasping after inordinate gain can find entrance into the realm of thought. As a consequence our mind will be free from these abnormal conditions. Our objec- tive mind will then fill our soul with good thought, with right suggestions and consequently we will do good work. Then we have conquered sin and matter. The soul will then be clarified, heavenly bliss and joy will commence right here and now, and keep on through eternity. Like the superlative hero of Nazareth who en- dured the cross for the joy that was set before him, we too will enter into everlasting blissful life. That joy was his conscious realization. He had conquered sin and mat- ter and went to his Father's house. If we live a life like he did, we will be like him and go to our maker and get EVOLUTION OF TH E HUMAN SOUL 187 our rewards of everlasting bliss and happiness and never to return to earth life again. 351. THE soul's evolution. The soul's progress, or evolution, is as much a con- cern of life here, as it is hereafter. It should be a pro- cess of regeneration. In the life of spiritual progress there should be no stagnation. It should be a growth and daily adaptation of knowledge; a repression of the earthly; a development of the spiritual and heavenly; a lifelong struggle with self; an ever-widening grasp of Divine truth. It is not merely man's privilege, but his present personal duty in his present state of existence, to live the ideal life. It is the simple duty of every human being to be honest, just, truthful, diligent, kind. Furthermore, it is as absolutely his duty to be considerate of each and all with whom he comes in direct and close or in incidental and accidental contact ; to be courteous ; to be hospitable to the best endeavors of every one else, and see people at their best always and not at their worst ; to be loving. To radiate a sunny sweetness and love to every one is the normal conditions of living. Anything below this is abnormal. The ideal life is the normal life. 352. EVIL BY WANT OF THOUGHT. Evil is wrought by want of thought. The thoughtless word is spoken and the offender explains that he meant no harm, but that he did not think. Here is the point. It is his business to think. For what other conceivable purpose was he formed in the heavenly image and given a rational mind? What is he in the world for? To think is his initial duty. 188 EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 353. HE WHO KNOWS. "He who knows that just in proportion as he indulges in passion or selfishness, or the exclusive pursuit of wealth, and neglects to cultivate the affections and the varied powers of his mind, so does he inevitably prepare for himself misery in a world where there are no physical wants to provide for, no occupations but those having for their object social, intellectual and spiritual progress — such a one is impelled toward pure, high, sympathetic life by motives far stronger than either the teachings of religion or philosophy can supply. He dreads to give way to passion or to falsehood, to selfishness or to a life of luxurious physical enjoyment, because he knows the inevitable misery of such habits, necessitating the long struggle to develop new and higher faculties. He who knows the realities of the future existence knows that happiness or misery will be directly dependent on the mental fabric we construct by our thoughts, words and actions daily." 354. PERSONAL IDENTITY. The retention of personal identity after death implies the same moral nature and would carry with it the same connection of virtue and vice with such a being as we should find its intellectual qualities. We are, of course, not to live only for that future, but to apply the moral law in the present so that its effect will not conflict with the larger outlook that the cosmos may provide. APPENDIX. 355. A CONVENTION. A convention was held in Allegheny, Pa., January 27th, 1864, for the purpose of procuring a religious amend- ment to the Constitution of the United States. A delega- tion was appointed to present the matter to the considera- tion of President Lincoln and the Congress. Similar con- ventions have been held since that time in other cities for similar purposes. The object which this association has in view is expressed in general terms, in the fol- lowing : 356. AN AMENDMENT. "We propose such an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (or its preamble) as will suitably acknowledge Almighty God as the author of the nation's existence and the ultimate source of its authority, Jesus Christ as its Ruler and the Bible as the supreme rule of its conduct, and thus indicate that this is a Christian nation, and place all Christian laws, institutions and usages of the government on an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental law of the land." 357. THE DARK AGES. Is this a proposition to go back to the theological status of the dark ages, when the church used the civil arm to enforce its dogmas? If all that is here proposed should be accomplished, the Christian religion would be estab- lished by this government. It would bring about in this 190 EVOLUTION OF T HE HUMAN SOUL country that union of Church and State which all other nations are trying to dissolve. It is useless to deny that this movement means the enforcing of religion by the state. 358. VIOLATION OF LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE. There are many thousands of good, moral and profes- sedly Christian people in this nation to-day who do not recognize Jesus Christ the same as God. There are millions of men and women who do not recognize the Bible as the revelation of God. The attempt to make any such amendment to the Constitution would be re- garded by a large majority of our people as a palpable violation of liberty of conscience. 359- ALL COULD AGREE. Some will say the Protestant church is so divided as to be unable to agree in regard to what doctrine shall be made imperative for the people. There are certain points which they hold in common, viz., the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the conscious state of the dead. In that all could agree that both are the foun- dations of all Christians creeds, also it is the superstruc- ture of spiritualism. 360. CHURCH AND STATE. Church and state have several times crept into Ameri- can politics. Our people have been wise enough hereto- fore to respect the clergy in all religious questions, and to entertain a wholesome jealousy of them in politics. The latest politico-theological movement is to insert the name of the Deity in the Constitution. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL 191 361. CORRECTOR OF HERETICS. Papal supremacy dates from the time when the degree of Justinian, constituting the pope the head of the church and the corrector of heretics, was carried into effect in 538. Thus the papacy was a church clothed with civil power — an ecclesiastical body — ^having authority to pun- ish all dissenters with confiscation of property, imprison- ment, torture or death. It is said the same power was conferred upon Brigham Young, the Mormon prophet. But after a while the Gentiles spoiled the whole business. 362. NO ROOM FOR THE PEOPLE. Do we want another ecclesiastical establishment clothed with similar power ? Let the Protestant churches in our land be given power to define and punish heresy, to en- force their dogmas under the pains and penalties of the civil law and should we not have an exact representation of the papacy during the days of its supremacy? But a large majority of the American people to-day are sane on the subject of keeping church and state separate. So long as we keep our common schools open and compel all children to get an education we will not go back to barbarism. Let religion and civil government forever be separate. If not, there will be no room for the people. 363. TO WIELD THE CLUB. The central thought of all religion is unselfishness and love. Preach that and incorporate both in our daily lives and let all forms and theories and dogmas take a second- ary place, or none. Then no one will ever ask Deity incorporated in the Constitution of the United States for the benefit of the few who wish to wield the club. INDEX ^-- A An Agnostic 129 A Powerful Spirit 9 A Spiritual Substance 37 A Psychic Force 26 A Universal Medium 28 Astronomical Records of the Hindoos 52 Anthropology 59 A Viper 70 A Frog 71 Automatic Writings lOS A Debt of Gratitude Ill A. R. Wallace 118 A Fool 120 Angels Build a Chapel 16S A Lady Superintendent 172 Animals Have No Consciousness 193 Animals' Duality of Mind 219 Abrogate the Jewish Lord 257 Ancient Scientists 260 ApoIIonius 261 Atonement as a Dogma 265 A Tribute 271 A Trinity of Corruption 294 A Modern Fakir 159 An Amendment 356 A Pestilential Influence : 290 A Confession 330 Awakened to the Truth 341 A Convention 355 All Could Agree 359 A Young Lady in a Trance 158 B Bishop 173 Belief in Immortality 189 Brahmans and Buddhists 23T Bloody Sacrifice 281 Brotherly Love 344 194 INDEX Changes Evolution 8 Comets are Planets in Embryo 48 Computation of the Age of the Efeirth 51 Chinese Record 53 Certain Unfortunates 74 Crystal Gazing 92 Closed Slates 106 Cosmic Beings 140 Christ 16(3 Catalepsy 171 Catalepsy not a Disease 174 Catalepsy Induced 175 Christ's Spiritual Supremacy 195 Criminals 214 Creed of the First Centuries 243 Cause and Effect 255 Cosmic Matter 277 Conquered Sin and Matter 350 Cosmic Forces 289 Ceremonies 1U3 Centered in Deity 340 Church and State 360 Corrector of Heretics 361 D Dr. Hammond 67 Dubois 77 Dr. Braid 88 Divinely Appointed Rulers 109 Dr. Myers 123 Dr. H. Hodgson 131 Discarnate and Incarnate Spirits 135 Discarnate Spirits 138 Different Souls 233 Developments of Science 249 Dr. Lazear 267 Death 274 Dominate 290 Divination 91 INDEX 195 Edison 38 Ether 20 Electrons 31 Eighth Period 45 Experiments 70 Evolutionist 191 Evolution of the Spiritual Man 198 Esoteric Philosophy 253 Evil by Want of Thought 352 Ecstasy 254 Enemies of Hypocrisy 262 Evidence of Old Age 303 External Impression 314 Espousal of Reincarnation 204 Education 317 Electricity Contains a Thought 331 Esoteric Philosophers 333 Evolution 334 Equity 34S Evolution in all Nature 1 Fully Realize the Truth 343 F. W. Robertson 200 Fourth Period , 41 First Period of the Earth's Evolution 38 Fifth Period 4'2 First Step in Evolution 01 From These Facts 81 Faculties of the Subjective Mind 130 Failure of Test Question 147 Faith is the Law of Suggestion 182 Faith of the Subjective Mind 226 Father Damien 26'5 From Sublunary to the Supernatural 58 G George Pelham 132 God and Man 221 Gladstone 124 196 INDEX H Hindostan Circles 56 Honest Mediums 107 Henry Ward Beecher 125 Hypnotic State 146 Hypnotism an Exact Science 199 Harmony 278 Hypocritical Happiness 299 He Who Knows 353 Healing by Suggestion 180 Healing by Telepathy 181 I Intelligences 24 Invisible Radiation 33 Instinct Not m the Brain 73 Identified 13-i Individuality Persists after Death 13(i Intelligent Man 170 Infallible Test of Death 178 Ignorance of Psychic Laws 209 Inherent Power of the Soul 22 7 Immediate Wants 304 Imprints upon the World 313 Intuition 349 Indifference 288 J Japanese Annals 55 Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet 156 Jesus Proclaimed the Law IS.) Jesus Was a Perfect Man 187 John on the Isle of Patmos 197 Jesus Forgave His Enemies 25ti Jesus 263 Jesus Appeared 292 Japanese God of Morality 328 Jangling with Creeds 248 K Key to Theosophy 160 INDEX 197 L Light Grade of Sleep 145 Let us Reason Together 230 Latent Germs 279 Living Action 325 M Man's Duality 12 Materialistic Scientists 23 Magnetism 34 Materialistic Scientists 00 Microcephali 80 Man Has Two Distinct Faculties 83 Mesmerism 87 Moneron 102 Materializing Seances 105 My Daughter Emma 113 Mediums Take Pay , 121 Momentous Question 126 Moses ICi Man is a Free Moral Agent 188 Morality and Religion 2 12 Matter and Spirit 213 Mpney the Root to Most Evil 218 Mainmonides 258 Moses an Initiate 259 Man 273 Mind over Matter 806 Mental Instruction 327 Modern and Ancient Scientists 335 Manifestation of Life 14 N New Discoveries 10 Nerve Center 16 Ninth Period 46 Natural Laws 01 Nature Conceals God 190 No Apology 210 No Room for the People 302 198 INDEX O Olliver de Angers 75 One Important Fact 93 Ordinary Sleep 142 Objective Environment 225 Object of Education 268 Organized Material 300 Our Ancestor 336 Operation of Natural Laws- 151 Orthodox Fathers 205 Origin 246 P Progressive Evolution 13 Premature Burial 179 Psychology 25 Picture of Vision 94 Protoplasm 101 Progress 122 Personal Identity 127 Professor Hyslop 12S Punishment for Adam's Sin 202 Persecutors 284 Professor Buchanan 307 Psychometers 308 Prophesying Priestesses 309 Professor Denton 310 Parents the Model 324 Professor Elie de Beaumont 332 People are in Bondage 342 Personal Identity 35 1 Polygamy 157 Pagan and Christian Miracles 164 Philosopher in the East 208 Partridge's Conversion 15-i Power of the Soul 134 Professor Charcot ^^ Pre-existence 242 R Reason an Unfaithful Guide 97 Revives During Autopsy 177 INDEX 199 Right and Wrong 22S Religious Worship 223 Reincarnation 232 Renaissance 287 Rays 30 S Shackles on the Brain 283 Studied Nature 276 Sir Ramsey and Sir Lodge 22 Spirit 37 Second Period 39 Sixth Period 43 Seventh Period 41 Sir Edward Fry 50 Sacred Books 57 Summary from Dr. Hammond 82 Saul 95 Superstition 08 Suggestion 104 Sincere IID Speaking in Unknown Tongues 149 Saul's Conversion 155 St. Vincent Ferrier 167 Spiritual Penalties 184 Science and Religion 210 Societies 270 School and Home 321 Selfishness 337 Saviard 76 Salvation 180 Strong Appetite for Liquor 217 Scientific Instinct 11 Similarity between Pagan and Christian Miracles 169 T The Earth 2 The Sun 3 The Universe 4 The Stars 3 The Solar System fi The Nebula "> 200 INDEX The Human Body 19 The Invisible Kays 20 The Mind 21 The Two Natures 27 The Human Body is a Dynamo 35 The Inner Nerves 30 Third Period 40 Three Different Days of the Earth 49 The Persian Avesta &1 The Absolute 62 The Infinite 63 The Instinct 68 The Lov^er Animals 69 Turtles and Water Snakes 72 The Seat of Instinct 78 The Center Organ 84 The Objective Mind 85 The Subjective Mind 86 The Society for Psychical Research 90 The Egyptians 96 The Triumph of Science 99 To Open the Gates of Thought 100 The Great Service of Jesus 103 The Saviors of Mankind 110 Telepathy 112 The Facts 114 The Theory of Spiritualism 11(5 Telepathy is a Fact ] 17 The Pseudo Scientific Spiritualist 1]!) The Spirit of Professor Sidgwick 130 The Inner Universe 137 The Doctrine of Suggestion l-ll The Hypnotized Subject 143 The Loss of Memory 144 The Fact 148 The Record upon the Subjective Mind 150 The Old Time Prophets 152 The Adepts of India 153 The Central Thought 161 The Intuitive Power of Perception 183 The Instinct of the Brute 192 Telepathy Belongs to the Soul 194 INDEX 201 Telepathy in India 19t5 Tlie Talmud 203 The Greek Philosophers 206 The Love of Prolonged Life 207 The Primitive Man 211 The Great Hydra 213 The Law of Affinity 220 The Universal Law of Marriage 6ti The Still Voice 22-' The Great Psychic Phenomenon 229 The Zoologist 231 The Falsity of Materialism 234 The Biologist 235 The Special Resurrection 23ti Travelers 238 The Daily Life of Buddhism 239 The Clarified Spirit 240 The Popular Impression 245 The Logician 247 The Broadest Intelligence 250 The Initiates 251 The Ancient Nations 252 The Origin of Atonement 26'! The Clergy 272 The Kabalists 274 The Historical Bible 280 The Founder of Christianity 285 The Selfish Instinct 280 Twin Brothers 293 The Jewish Priesthood 297 The Indians - 293 The Priestess 102 The Earthy Matter SOI The Arteries 302 The Approach of Old Age 305 The Inner Eye 312 The Chaldeans 315 The All Seeing Eye 31»3 The Duty of Parents 318 The Child 319 Two Types of Man 320 Twin Sisters 322 202 INDEX The Most Important 323 The Materialistic School 323 The Central Fact 338 The Fundamental Principals 339 The Sinner 347 The Soul's Evolution 351 The Dark Ages 357 To Wield the Club 303 Tyrants 282 The Wise Man 345 The Gods 291 The Japanese God of Morality 328 U Unconsciously Transferred 326 Universal Love 34G V Vital Power 15 Vampirism 176 Vital Spirit of Christianity 244 Violation of Liberty of Conscience 358 W Wave Action 32 Worlds Have Periods of Growth 47 Was Jesus a Reincarnation of King David 201 Weal or Woe 224 Work Out Tour Own Salvation 241 Watered Stock 260 William Penn 295 World's Picture Gallery 311