ry progress, with no sudden, or
visible, change from day to day. The life that now is creates and
determines the life that is to come. A man is what he is to-day because
of the life he lived yesterday, and last year, and a decade, or several
decades, ago. That which we call life--environment, circumstances,
conditions--is the sum of the expression of all its past experiences,
thought, aspirations, energy, or the lack of thought, aspirations, and
energy. One's life is in his own hands; it is subject to his own will
power, to his own energy of aspiration. He must aspire and go forward or
he will degenerate. There is no possibility of an epoch that is
stationary. Both in any form of work or art, as well as in mental and
spiritual life, one must constantly go forward, or he will find himself
going backward. Even a pianist as great as Paderewski must keep his
fingers in practice on the keyboard every day. The painter cannot long
absent himself from his canvas without losing in his art. The thinker,
the student, must be forever conquering new realms.

Science is demonstrating the actual existence of another world,
transcending, pervading, surrounding this one; a world which
interpenetrates our own,--the ethereal in the atmospheric,--and there is
one part of the personality of man that dwells continually on this
ethereal side. The physical body only conveys a partial expression of
the entire being. The spiritual self lived long before it tenanted this
present body, and it will continue to live after it has discarded this
body. The life that is constantly proceeds to create the life that is to
come.

In this ethereal world,--which interpenetrates our atmosphere and in
which the higher part of man's being continually dwells,--there are
stored the finer forces which humanity is now discovering and learning
to use. In this realm spirit speaks to spirit, telepathically. The power
to thus communicate is an attribute of the spirit, and, whether in or
out of the body, does not seem to affect the power. In this ethereal
realm are the currents that make possible wireless telegraphy. The
grouping and combination of these finer and more intense potencies
result in great inventions. This realm is, in short, the miracle world;
but a miracle is not something outside the laws of nature. Indeed, as
Phillips Brooks truly said, "A miracle is an essential part of the plan
of God." It is simply an occurrence under the higher laws, and on a
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