om the place where the pebble was thrown.

This illustration explains the difference between the materialistic
and the metaphysical points of view. The former notes the result, and
the latter the cause of existing conditions. The mystical viewpoint
takes into account the fact that there is a cosmic law which acts like
a tidal-wave. Materialists call the action of this law "Evolution,"
assuming that its impetus comes from our physical activities. It is,
in fact, from the Center or spiritual source of life that all power,
all evolution, emanates. The spiritual is the intensity of power; the
physical is the attenuated.

The term, "spiritual realms" suggests to the average mind a vaporous
space where nothing happens; yet it requires only a little intelligent
reflection to establish the fact that, as Paracelsus said long ago,
"The mind is the workshop in which all visible life is formed." Our
mental operations are silently, invisibly, carried on, and yet we see
the effect of these silent plans and ideas in our noisy methods of
locomotion; our architecture; our commerce--in all the avenues of our
active civilization.

We wish to emphasize the point that every so-called advancement; every
discovery; every improvement in moral ideals as well as in mechanics,
and in those things that add to our physical comfort, comes from the
center of Life.

The external but _reflects_ the action of the Cosmic Law which
uncovers the vast areas of consciousness and frees the human soul from
the hypnotisms, and the limitations of the animal-mind.

Animal force is still strong in the world to-day, but it is not as
strong as it appears to be, because much of the seeming indifference
and cold-heartedness of the people, taken en masse, is due to the
hurried, feverish and insistent demands of our external life.

Underneath the surface, in the realm of the sub-conscious activities,
there is developing the spirit of unity; of sympathy; and a
consciousness of our innate relationship. This realization comes to
the surface in times of great stress and peril.

The whole trend of modern life symbolizes or reflects the _ideal_ of
unity, albeit the tooth and claw and growl of the animal in Man may be
seen and felt and heard in the vain effort to postpone the inevitable
dethronement of the animal force, which would dominate the weaker and
appropriate for the personal self, the creation of brain and hand,
much as the house-dog, satiated with over-feedin