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Super-Physical Science: Two Articles
Super-Physical Science: Two Articles
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People who prefer a materialistic interpretation of life keep all studies connected with super-physical inquiry at arm's length, but those who can take cognizance of many natural phenomena that do not appeal to the familiar senses are now very numerous, and the wave of interest in research of that order is widely operative in the present day.
So we can not but look back on medieval literature dealing with occult mysteries of sorts with a feeling quite unlike that to which it gave rise forty or fifty years ago. Once more, early superstition is translated more or less successfully into terms of modern science; and when we read stories about charms and incantations and ceremonial magic made use of to wreak vengeance on the victims of a ruthless magician's animosity, we are hardly now inclined to put them aside as so much childish nonsense. We are gradually coming to believe that some unseen and as yet imperfectly understood forces of Nature are subject to the control of human will. Some puzzles bequeathed to us by ancient history begin to be explicable, and megalithic architecture, for instance, provokes a guess pointing to the possibility that in former ages of the world, powers that modern civilization has lost touch with were used with beneficent purpose by the representatives of lofty moral progress, concurrently with the use, by the enemies of such progress, of the powers devoted to destruction.
If the human will is free we must suppose that such freedom has been used by certain individuals in the definite choice of evil, and that such individuals become recruits in an army that wages war upon the spiritual evolution of the race. The first step on the evil path consists of merely selfish purposes, and this finally culminates in direct and intelligent .rebellion against the divine order of things.
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The two articles presented are:
1. THIS WORLD'S PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
2. LIFE AFTER DEATH
So we can not but look back on medieval literature dealing with occult mysteries of sorts with a feeling quite unlike that to which it gave rise forty or fifty years ago. Once more, early superstition is translated more or less successfully into terms of modern science; and when we read stories about charms and incantations and ceremonial magic made use of to wreak vengeance on the victims of a ruthless magician's animosity, we are hardly now inclined to put them aside as so much childish nonsense. We are gradually coming to believe that some unseen and as yet imperfectly understood forces of Nature are subject to the control of human will. Some puzzles bequeathed to us by ancient history begin to be explicable, and megalithic architecture, for instance, provokes a guess pointing to the possibility that in former ages of the world, powers that modern civilization has lost touch with were used with beneficent purpose by the representatives of lofty moral progress, concurrently with the use, by the enemies of such progress, of the powers devoted to destruction.
If the human will is free we must suppose that such freedom has been used by certain individuals in the definite choice of evil, and that such individuals become recruits in an army that wages war upon the spiritual evolution of the race. The first step on the evil path consists of merely selfish purposes, and this finally culminates in direct and intelligent .rebellion against the divine order of things.
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The two articles presented are:
1. THIS WORLD'S PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
2. LIFE AFTER DEATH
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