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Harmonics of Evolution
Harmonics of Evolution
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An excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter:
CHAPTER I.
Preliminary Statement
There Is No Death.
Life After Physical Death Is A Fact Scientifically Demonstrable.
Life Here And Hereafter Has A Common Development And A Common Purpose.
These propositions are laid down with due appreciation of their importance. They are presented as facts of Nature clearly demonstrable by scientific methods.
The writer is aware that these statements directly challenge both dogmatic theology and scientific skepticism. It is possible that they may provoke the hostility of the one and the ridicule of the other. If, however, such hostility and ridicule finally pave the way to honest investigation, the object of the writer will have been accomplished.
These positive initial declarations, be it understood, foreshadow the positive character of the philosophy to be presented. The authority to state these truths in unconditional terms is derived from a school of science which transcends in scope and investigation that school commonly known as the school of modern physical science. This authority is reinforced by direct teaching and a personal experience covering a period of more than ten years.
Having made this statement, any further discussion as to the relation of the writer to her authority is obviously out of place.
Natural Science, which is the basis of this philosophy, is an exact science and not a theory. This means that its propositions are based upon the theorem of any one of our exact physical sciences, viz., the study of natural phenomena and the classification of facts in Nature, together with experiment along the lines of natural law and the demonstration of the principles involved.
The propositions of Natural Science are susceptible of demonstration with the same certainty as are those of physical science.
It will be observed that this is an unqualified statement. Positive assertion invariably accompanies either deliberate falsehood, profound ignorance, or a personal and definite knowledge as to the question involved.
In this, as in any other science, the investigator or would-be student is confronted with certain definite propositions and is given a working formula for their solution. In this, as in any other science, successful solution depends chiefly upon the individual ability, capacity and character of the student.
Over ten years of personal inquiry, instruction, experiment and experience constitute the substantial basis upon which this work rests. It is true that many of the declarations made by more advanced authorities transcend the writer's personal knowledge. Personal demonstration has, however, been carried far enough to logically bear out their broader declaration concerning the operations of natural law. It is also true that within the limitations of their opportunities, these years of personal inquiry have verified those fundamental propositions upon which this philosophy rests. These verifications constitute a reasonable basis of faith in other propositions which, as yet, transcend the writer's personal demonstrations.
In this particular instance the slow but complete transformation of an avowed skeptic was not accomplished without proof. The writer's "conversion," if such it may be called, has not been a blind process. It is not a mere matter of faith. It is not merely an intellectual opinion based upon argument or theory. The proof in question rests upon that identical character of evidence which is accepted by science as well as by the courts of law, viz.:
(1) Direct evidence, or the unqualified statements of those who claim to know, such persons being of lawful age, sound mind and irreproachable character.
(2) The direct evidences which flow from a course of personal self-development. This is a character of evidence which neither hostility, incredulity nor ridicule can affect. This is true by reason of the fact that these are evidences which flow from a personal, practical, rational and scientific inquiry and experiment. These are evidences which obtain in every department of life, physical, spiritual, intellectual and moral.
(3) The internal evidences of intelligence, consistency and truth which the philosophy itself presents to the student.
(4) The corroborative evidences conveyed to the mind of the student by exhibitions of the spiritual powers of a teacher.
(5) The corroborative evidences of the moral philosophy as illustrated in the daily life and practice of a teacher.
There are grave and serious difficulties in the path of any student who would transmit his slowly acquired knowledge to the world. Indeed, the presentation of all the proofs is not possible. The best that may be done in dealing with the facts of Natural Science by publication, is to present certain fundamental, spiritual principles in Nature...
CHAPTER I.
Preliminary Statement
There Is No Death.
Life After Physical Death Is A Fact Scientifically Demonstrable.
Life Here And Hereafter Has A Common Development And A Common Purpose.
These propositions are laid down with due appreciation of their importance. They are presented as facts of Nature clearly demonstrable by scientific methods.
The writer is aware that these statements directly challenge both dogmatic theology and scientific skepticism. It is possible that they may provoke the hostility of the one and the ridicule of the other. If, however, such hostility and ridicule finally pave the way to honest investigation, the object of the writer will have been accomplished.
These positive initial declarations, be it understood, foreshadow the positive character of the philosophy to be presented. The authority to state these truths in unconditional terms is derived from a school of science which transcends in scope and investigation that school commonly known as the school of modern physical science. This authority is reinforced by direct teaching and a personal experience covering a period of more than ten years.
Having made this statement, any further discussion as to the relation of the writer to her authority is obviously out of place.
Natural Science, which is the basis of this philosophy, is an exact science and not a theory. This means that its propositions are based upon the theorem of any one of our exact physical sciences, viz., the study of natural phenomena and the classification of facts in Nature, together with experiment along the lines of natural law and the demonstration of the principles involved.
The propositions of Natural Science are susceptible of demonstration with the same certainty as are those of physical science.
It will be observed that this is an unqualified statement. Positive assertion invariably accompanies either deliberate falsehood, profound ignorance, or a personal and definite knowledge as to the question involved.
In this, as in any other science, the investigator or would-be student is confronted with certain definite propositions and is given a working formula for their solution. In this, as in any other science, successful solution depends chiefly upon the individual ability, capacity and character of the student.
Over ten years of personal inquiry, instruction, experiment and experience constitute the substantial basis upon which this work rests. It is true that many of the declarations made by more advanced authorities transcend the writer's personal knowledge. Personal demonstration has, however, been carried far enough to logically bear out their broader declaration concerning the operations of natural law. It is also true that within the limitations of their opportunities, these years of personal inquiry have verified those fundamental propositions upon which this philosophy rests. These verifications constitute a reasonable basis of faith in other propositions which, as yet, transcend the writer's personal demonstrations.
In this particular instance the slow but complete transformation of an avowed skeptic was not accomplished without proof. The writer's "conversion," if such it may be called, has not been a blind process. It is not a mere matter of faith. It is not merely an intellectual opinion based upon argument or theory. The proof in question rests upon that identical character of evidence which is accepted by science as well as by the courts of law, viz.:
(1) Direct evidence, or the unqualified statements of those who claim to know, such persons being of lawful age, sound mind and irreproachable character.
(2) The direct evidences which flow from a course of personal self-development. This is a character of evidence which neither hostility, incredulity nor ridicule can affect. This is true by reason of the fact that these are evidences which flow from a personal, practical, rational and scientific inquiry and experiment. These are evidences which obtain in every department of life, physical, spiritual, intellectual and moral.
(3) The internal evidences of intelligence, consistency and truth which the philosophy itself presents to the student.
(4) The corroborative evidences conveyed to the mind of the student by exhibitions of the spiritual powers of a teacher.
(5) The corroborative evidences of the moral philosophy as illustrated in the daily life and practice of a teacher.
There are grave and serious difficulties in the path of any student who would transmit his slowly acquired knowledge to the world. Indeed, the presentation of all the proofs is not possible. The best that may be done in dealing with the facts of Natural Science by publication, is to present certain fundamental, spiritual principles in Nature...
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