ng from nature
the secrets of success, in feeding, clothing, housing, educating and
elevating humanity. It follows then, that to overcome the sin of
ignorance, is to banish poverty. To banish poverty, is to banish want.
To banish want, is to take away the very foundations of the sin of
selfishness. Selfishness, is the father of a multitude of sins, which
must perish with it.

"From these premises we must deduce, that all educative work in the
proper sense, is a religious activity, which makes us better acquainted
with the relations which exist, between man and his Creator, the Great
Over Soul. The spiritualizing influence of this intellectual work,
carries with it the compensation of a great reward. It crowns the
gleaner, with happiness of the purest type. As knowledge increases, the
field of knowledge expands, the flood of happiness swells in volume. A
long busy life on the material plane of existence, is far too short to
acquire this vast treasure, which is commensurate with the needs of
progress for an eternity of spiritual existence, to which, this life is
simply the primary school. With a better understanding of the nature of
sin, and of the alarming extent of its evil influence over human life;
the new religion undertakes to bless mankind, by banishing ignorance,
poverty and crime. To this practical, spiritual work, the people of
Solaris religiously devote themselves, as being a life-work of the
noblest order.

"The three principal sins which we have considered, may be justly
regarded as the parents of all lesser sins. Having given a few brief
suggestions as to methods of cure, which are offered by the new
religion; I am now ready, Mr. Gaylord, to take up the doctrine of total
depravity; which plays such an important part in your theology.

"As the primary step, I will re-state a prior postulate, as follows:
The spiritual man, is the conscious Ego, the Soul, or a cosmic unit of
the larger cosmos; an indestructible part of the great life principle.
As such, it is the repository of infinite possibilities, which are
destined to be unfolded by the law of progressive evolution. From the
Great Over Soul, it inherits immortality and indestructibility;
therefore, it cannot be lost, saved, or become depraved. The mortal body
is an outer covering, through which it must express itself on the
material plane of existence. Physical, intellectual and spiritual life,
are subject to the law of evolution, by which they achieve p