purely in thought and deed as to prevent the interposition of
any barrier between the phenomenal (or the outer) and the substantial
(or the inner) self; and by steadfastly cultivating harmonious relations
between those two, by subordinating the whole system to the Divine
will,--thus does one gain full access to the stores of knowledge in the
soul. Doctor Kingsford further explains:--

"For, placed as is the soul between the outer and the inner
mediator, between the material and the spiritual, she looks inwards
as well as outwards, and by experience learns the nature and method
of God; and according to the degree of her elevation, purity, and
desire, sees, reflects, and transmits God. It is in virtue of the
soul's position between the worlds of substance and of phenomenon,
and her consequent ability to refer _things_ to their essential
_ideas_, that in her, and her alone, resides an instrument of
knowledge competent for the comprehension of truth, even the
highest, which she only is able to behold face to face. It is no
hyperbole that is involved in the saying, 'The pure in heart see
God.' True, the _man_ cannot see God. But the divine in man sees
God. And this occurs when, by means of his soul's union with God,
the man becomes 'one with the Father', and beholds God _with the
eyes of God_....

"And he to whom the soul lends her ears and eyes, may have
knowledge not only of his own past history, but of the past history
of the planet, as beheld in the pictures imprinted in the magnetic
light whereof the planet's memory consists. For there are actually
ghosts of events, manes of past circumstances, shadows on the
protoplasmic mirror, which can be evoked.

"But beyond and above the power to read the memory of himself or of
the planet, is the power to penetrate to that innermost sphere
wherein the soul obtains and treasures up her knowledge of God.
This is the faculty whereby true revelation occurs. And revelation,
even in this, its highest sense, is, no less than reason, a natural
appanage of man, and belongs of right to man in his highest and
completest measure of development."

Doctor Kingsford was an evolutionist, holding that development along
evolutionary lines is a true doctrine, but she held that this
development was not of the original substance, because that, being
infinite