Mr. Sinclair is as firm in his belief as is Mr. Keely that this element is the great connecting link between the Creator and the created, and that it is capable of rendering more marvellous services to man than all the discovered uses of electricity.
The coincidences in the theories of these two philosophers are the more remarkable, inasmuch as Mr. Sinclair’s have their origin, as set forth in his book “A New Creed,” in metaphysics; while “Keely’s wide and far-reaching philosophy” (to quote the words of a distinguished physicist) “has a physical genesis, and has been developed by long years of patient and persistent research.” But it is an undisputed fact that, in countries far distant from each other, different men have fallen into the same lines of research; and have made correspondent discoveries, at the same time, without having had any communication with each other; and never has there been a time when so many were testing all things that appear to give proof of the super-sensual element in man. There is a very general impression all over the world, says Marie Correlli, that the time is ripe for a clearer revelation of God and “the hidden things of God” than we have ever had before.
All persons who are interested in Keely’s discoveries and the nature of the unknown element discovered by Keely and Sinclair, will find in the writings of the latter a more lucid explanation of sympathetic association than Keely himself has ever been able to give in writing. The title of this remarkable book would have been more wisely chosen had its author called it “A New Element and a New Order of Things.” The Rev. Philip Schaff, D.D., says of creeds:—“The Bible is the word of God to man: the Creed is the answer of man to God. The Bible is the book to be explained and applied; the Creed is the Church’s understanding and summary of the Bible.” It is in this light that Mr. Sinclair’s new creed, human and humane, should be read.
There is no conductivity in the ether lines, writes Sinclair, for selfish desires and motives; for they are not of the soul, but are only sounds of the lips (or wishes of the material part of us), so that the established connecting-rod between the living soul and the source of life is insulated from desires that are not begotten in sympathy, and they at once run to earth. Where there is no connection there can be no communion. Without the natural sympathetic etheric connection between the source of life and the soul, there can be no communication. “A New Creed,” like the sympathetic etheric philosophy of Keely, reveals the connecting link between the finite and the Infinite, and teaches us that the primal law of evolution and of progress is slowly but surely preparing our race for the time when Christianity will be something more than a mere profession, and “the brotherhood of humanity” will no longer be the meaningless phrase that it now is. We are led to see, by this pure philosophy, that “our solar system is a type of a healthy social system; that in it each one affects, binds, controls, sustains, helps, makes free each other; that no star lives for itself alone;” that man was not made to mourn, and that our sufferings arise from our ignorance of the laws governing the innate motive power within us.
The times are not degenerate! Men’s faith
Mounts higher than of old. No crumbling creed
Can take from the immortal soul its need
Of something greater than itself. The wraith
Of dead belief we cherished in our youth,
Fades but to let us welcome new born truth.