hirlwind and the flood, and differentiates itself through
the smallest minutia of the affairs of human life. It is the primeval
element, the "pure cussedness" which has to be conquered, or adjusted
in every human being. It essays to bar all progress; Ignorance and
Superstition are its blinded handmaids. It exacts the fearful
penalties of scornfully misunderstood efforts, if not ostracism and
persecution, for the use of the diviner faculties. It is the spirit of
unconquered ill. It is the genius of the utterly selfish will of man.

But it is when it allies itself with the intellect and will of man, and
becomes the motive power, and thus expresses itself in concrete form,
as is often the case, that our sympathies are touched and our sense of
justice aroused, and we feel our lack of protection from the "powers
and principalities of the air." Our only refuge is in growing to and
experiencing a perfect at-one-ment with the eternal law of the
opposing, the Constructive Force--God. There is no protection, no
safety, but in the Divine Love and Wisdom.

VIBRATION.

There was no beginning; there can be no ending. There is a constant,
undeviating process of changing and readjustment of all the forces of
the universe. All is vibration. None of nature's forces are at rest,
at equilibrium. Build you a fine dwelling, and ere it is finished for
your occupancy, the disintegrating forces will have made a raid upon
the material of which it is constructed. Take notice of the signs of
decomposition going on in everything around you--the accumulation of
fluff in your rooms, in the innermost of your garments, along the
seams. So also do the rocks and mountains yield themselves to dust,
and so does all the planet reverberate with the resistless onward march
of the law of progress, unfoldment, evolution from the lower to a
higher form of expression.

Lands edging the seas and the inland waters, from their constant
erosion, slip away and are lost. Continents disappear, undermined by
earthquakes and similar convulsions of nature, and new lands arise from
the bowels of some faraway ocean to keep the balance even.

LIFE.

From time immemorial the researches of men in the vain effort to
discover and make known to the world the origin of life, of all life,
on the planet earth and elsewhere, have been most anxiously considered.
These efforts of the inquiring minds of men have not been altogether
fruitless of results; b