KNOWLEDGE OF OCCULT LAW.

The invitation of one of old to his followers, and fellow believers:  “Come let us reason together,” marks the dividing line between knowledge and superstition.  The daring of the mind of man proves him to be, in very truth, “a child of God.”  No arcana of knowledge are too deeply hid in mystery to escape the prying of his curiosity, his longing for enlightenment, his long-sustained and vigorous efforts to surprise the hidden things of God and Nature.  Livingston and Stanley wrought in the jungles of Africa, Audubon and Agassiz in the fastnesses of tropical America.  These in the material world, the world of effects.  Gessner and Varley, Darwin and Spencer, together with a long list of other inspired minds, have given their best thoughts, devoted their noblest energies to the explorations of the world of causes, the occult and invisible realms of pure principles in God and Nature.  Back of all these there lies the richest bequest ever made to humanity in the discoveries and revelations of the most ancient “adepts,” the fathers of mystical lore, in the light of modern discoveries and inventions, mystical no longer; but practical and full of earnest meaning in their adaptation and adjustment to the needs and wants of the citizens of the world today.

EVANESCENCE OF MERE BELIEFS.

Proclaim not mere beliefs today, and be not labelled and pigeon-holed and held to account on any special line of thought or action lest the individual soul be barred out from a conception and knowledge of some far grander truth.  At best our view is narrow and contracted, else were we gods, and as we grow we discover our little, vaunted beliefs to be but as tiny shreds of color in God’s great mosaic, our song of triumph and discovery but as the buzzing of the insect to the chorals of the chanting hosts of heaven.  So, then, an eternal negation is the safest attitude of the unfolding soul.  Mere beliefs, unproven by facts, are so many barriers set up for the soul to overleap and leave behind on its onward march.

THE FOUNT OF INSPIRATION FOR ALL.

“The righteous shall inherit the earth.”  Just so far as we are able to prove our rightness, the world—­nay the whole universe of God—­is ours.  Our Heavenly Father has never said:  “Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther, upon the road to knowledge.”  Everything invites us; get wisdom, get understanding, and to thy knowledge add virtue are the recommendations from inspired sources, and to the soul that fears not, revelations upon every line stand invitingly open.

MAN VERSUS DEATH.