Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typ...os. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. SCIENCE OF BEING. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of Life, ? that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ. John, First Epistle. Here I stand. I can do no otherwise; so help me GodI AmenI Martik Luther. IN the material world thought has brought to light, with great rapidity, many useful wonders. With like rapidity have thought's swift pinions been rising Materialistic towards the realm of the real, to the spiritual challenge. cause of those lower things which give impulse to inquiry. Belief in a material basis, from which may be deduced all rationality, is yielding slowly to the idea of a metaphysical basis, looking away from matter to Mind, as the cause of every effect. Materialistic hypotheses challenge metaphysics to meet in final combat. In this revolutionary period, like the shepherd-boy with his sling, woman goes forth to battle with Goliath. Popular metaphysical systems afford, in this final struggle for supremacy, no substantial aid to true metaphysics; because their arguments are partly based on the testimony of the material senses, as well as on pne. the facts of Mind. These systems are, one m"ium. and all, pantheistic, and savor of Pandemonium, a house divided against itself. From first to last the supposed union of Mind and matter, the mingling of Good and evil, have resulted from the philosophy of the serpent. Jesus' demonstrations sift the chaff from the wheat, and unfold the unity and the reality of Good, and the unreality, the nothing ness, of evil. Human philosophy has made God m...Detailed info »« Brief info