CONTENTS.
No New Thing
Evolution
Slowness of Evolution
The Work of Nature
A New Science
World Making
Imperfections Revealed
World Origin
Spirit Individualized through Matter
World Signs
World Growth
Death a Benefactor
World Progress
The Origin of Evil
Vibration
Life
Churches Money Makers
Life in Nature
Heaven
Nature Spirits
Experience
Spiritualism
Phenomena
Mediumship
The Migrations of our Race
The Discipline of Life
Homogeneity of the Race
Of God
Of Jesus
The Gods
Knowledge of Occult Law
Evanescence of Mere Beliefs
The Fount of Inspiration for All
Man versus Death
Fear of Death
Test of Character
Character Forming
Man the Final Earth Product
Superstitions
Self-Justice
Symbolism
Love
Ideals of Love
The Needs of Woman
Man versus Woman
Natural Cruelty of the Undeveloped
The Worst Sin
Reincarnation
Processes of Reincarnation
Education of Children
Egotism
Responsiveness
Hell
The Commonplace
Petroleum
Law
Communism
Happiness
Pain
Foes in the Household
The Inner Life
Root of Evils
Rest in Change
Miserliness
Special Providence
Human Destiny
Ethical Law
Human Life
Animal Likeness
Natural Superstition
Adaptiveness of Man
Devil Worship
Fanaticism
Truth
Christs
Hero Worship
Reason
Sympathy
New Religions
The Growth Processes of the Human Soul
Necessity for Phenomena
Will
Change of Atoms
Our Limitations
Final Race Experience
Religious Performances
Of Teachers
Wise Use of Money
Genius
Thoughts Are Things
Unfoldment
Inventions
Divine Healing
Surplus
Analysis of the Lord's Prayer
Absurd Beliefs
The Resurrection
The Creator
Retributive Justice
The Soul
Woman
Insights and Heresies
Pertaining to
The Evolution of The Soul
NO NEW THING.
There is no new revelation to be given to man; there is no need of it. Those who have labored most strenuously to evolve from their inner consciousness a new, a better religion, have found themselves bogged in the mire of their egotism which has landed them in a police court, or they have been confronted by exactly the same problems as those from which they have sought to escape. Few, indeed, have survived the test of time. There is an ancient promise that stands yet for man's use: "To him that hath (improved) shall more be given, and from him that hath not (improved) shall be taken away that which he already has." This was never meant to apply to material things—it could not—it was spoken in reference to the gift of understanding, and of using the occult, the psychic law. Many psychics have lost their spiritual gifts through failing to understand that endless progress is the law that forces souls along the way of life. No stopping by the way to gather shells upon the shore, no aimless looking back; but work with stout heart and resolute will. It all means work, overmastering habits of thought and action, lifting the soul from the grooves of heredity, and in all ways making aspiration attract the inspiration that sustains the soul.
EVOLUTION.
All subjects pertaining to our knowledge of the soul are too subtle to be weighed and proved by external intellect alone. Our lives are ruled by such a hotch-potch of inherited beliefs and tendencies, that it is almost impossible for us to use any discrimination concerning them; or to arraign ourselves before the tribunal of our own better judgment in such manner as to enable us to separate the false and effete ethical and religious influences, from the wise and true, which alone are abiding and permanent.
Thus we grope and stumble along through our earthly lives, burdened with ideas which were set in motion far back in a crude age, and which were so well adapted to their time that they still vibrate to the tendencies of our own day. This applies to every department of human experience, and were it not that we are, as a huge family, better than our cherished beliefs, higher in the scale of development than these would seem to indicate, we should still be under the dominion of the so-called "Dark Ages." The most important and the dearest phase of human experience must come, of course, through its religious beliefs, and as they are narrow and superstitious, on the one hand, or grand with faith and understanding of law, on the other, do we judge of the status of the individual, the community, and the race; and the advances made upon this line mark the progress of what we term civilization on this planet.