Galileo dreamed of the wonderful thought of the earth’s motion, but dared not prove it and could not. Herschel knew what planet lay beyond the range of the vision of any instrument yet made by man; his mind’s eye had traversed thereby the sure pathway of mathematical intuition, and when his instrument was perfected, lo, the orb was there. Did he create the planet by creating the telescope with which it was viewed? Are any of the worlds made because men have discovered them? Is any type of existence just formed because science, for the first time, recognises that type? And are all the truths in science and in the vocabulary of its interpretation new truths because first discovered? Worlds come and go, planets have their birth and decadence, rise and fall, unmindful of human discoveries.
The spiritual firmament is alike governed by laws that may or may not be known to the outward understanding of man, but fulfil forever their infinite purpose, and through cycle upon cycle of infinite systems perform the functions intended by the Infinite. Those fortunate souls that on the verge of time clasp hands with matter, and see God glimmering through the atoms, may somewhat know of the Infinite purpose; but he who would know aright must turn aside from the usual pathways of what is called outward or scientific investigation, and revert to that which we announce, and which ever must be the only incontrovertible principle in nature, the intuition of mind itself. It is said that the spiritual science of today is based upon reason; it is not, it is based upon intuition. Reason is its handmaiden; knowledge outwardly is its means of diffusion; but if based upon reason it must falter and fail, where reason falters and fails, which is the limit of matter and of the material senses. Base any philosophy upon an outward predicate, and with the outward predicate it vanishes; base it upon that which is more eternal, and though time and outward things may change, it never vanishes. The spiritual manifestations of today are an appeal to man’s reason through the senses, but the spiritual philosophy is a revelation from the innermost soul of man through the avenues of inspiration, intuition, thought and all that pertains to the highest qualities of man’s nature.
It has ever been the theory with the divinest minds of the earth that the spiritual, like the material, firmament is governed by these fixed and undeviating laws; and it has ever been a correct estimate with the highest inspired minds of all ages that these spiritual laws bear distinct and special relationship to every individual soul in existence, and to every particle of intelligence animating the entire system of worlds. The cosmos of Plato was none other than this, and, through his intuition, imperfectly stated to the outward understanding, is a revelation of the divine import of whatever comes to the human spirit when disenthralled from merely technical fetters, either of a scientific or theological nature. The truth is, that underlying all foundations of outward life is a spiritual basis; that the superstructure of worlds and of outward systems of existence has no form save from within; and that, wherever there is an indication of law or intelligence, there is a conscious source of law and intelligence. Human beings worship at the shrine of this intelligence, forgetting that they place themselves above that which they worship if they deny a consciousness animating the nature which they are bound to obey. Human beings, in seeking to espouse reason, divorce themselves from the Infinte soul that they may clandestinely worship themselves instead of the Deity whom they deny. Human beings resolve themselves externally into demigods, setting up in the halls of human science a false image of the outward man saying, “Behold, this alone deserves homage,” forgetting that they deny to themselves any attributes for worship or any cause of admiration by denying any spiritual source of existence.
As you read these wise, illuminating and articulate words, just ponder for a moment on those who over the years, have claimed that nothing of importance ever came from the mouths of the spirit people, only trivialities!
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