sun's rays can be focussed and made to do work, to set fire to wood."

In these words there is very clearly set forth a certain spiritual
achievement of a definite nature. It is simply the act of liberating the
spiritual self from entanglement with the lower self,--the summoning
into ascendency of the higher powers. This intense degree of spiritual
energy may be achieved with the force and suddenness of a special
creation.

The physical universe in which man finds himself is not only surrounded
by the spiritual universe, but the two are so absolutely interpenetrated
that he may live in both, and, as a matter of fact, whoever lives the
life of the spirit does live now and here, as an inhabitant of both
these realms. The spiritual universe is the reservoir of energy. "The
things that are seen are temporal, but those that are unseen are
eternal," and faith, as _the substance_ of those things not seen, is a
definite potency which is practically related to daily affairs. That is
to say, it is an absolute power, by means of which one can fulfil the
practical duties of every day. The degree of one's ability to draw from
this energy and assimilate it into his life measures his degree of
success.

Doctor Ostwald, a German scientist, claims that in energy he has
discovered the actual bridge, the missing link, between mind and matter,
between the spiritual and the physical worlds; that it is a bridge
"which covers the chasm between force and substance," and "which is of a
nature sufficiently manifest to embrace the totality of our experiences,
the interior as well as the exterior." Doctor Ostwald claims that there
is an immaterial factor, one endowed with neither weight nor mass, which
in a quantitative way is just as unchangeable as the mass and weight of
material substances, and which, exactly like these, can undergo
qualitative transformations of all kinds. He holds that energy may be
converted from every one of its forms into every other, and its power of
transformation is therefore unlimited, and that every change which
takes place in the outer world, and every process, may be described by a
statement of the kind and amount of energy that has undergone
conversion.

This conception of energy is a very clear and remarkable one, placing it
as the infinite power from which any form of force, spiritual or
mechanical, can be derived.

In the moral universe the true expression of this energy upon which one
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