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things. The invisible soul or mind that controls the body and weighs suns and measures worlds is greater than the body.

The invisible atoms and electricity that weave the body as a deft weaver weaves his warp and woof, his silks and tapestries, and give it motion and vital power, are greater than the ever-changing frail drapery of visible matter they weave around the conscious soul.

We speak of solid matter, but there is no solid matter. Our bodies are not solid; iron, steel, lead, marble, granite are not solid. They are the most solid forms of matter we know; but they are full of pores or openings that the microscope reveals. Electricity, atoms, the sun's rays can pass through them. Photographs can be taken through them of objects on the opposite side of them by the Crooke's tube or the Roentgen rays. They can be reduced to a fluid, then a vapor, and breathed into a human body and become a part of it; and a chemist can detect the same molecules in the flesh and blood.

People who do not think scientifically believe their bodies are solid. But they are not. They are almost as porous as a sponge. Atoms and sunshine, air and electricity pass through them as if they were not there. They have a million of air ducts or breathing inlets and outlets to every square inch, and vast systems of sewers for draining off decaying matter. The anatomists tell us we throw off from two to ten pounds daily of waste matter, depending on health, vigor, and exercise..

Seventy-eight per cent of the body, they say, is water, the balance is earthy matter or bone dust. So that man's body, anatomically speaking, is four or five bucketsful of water and a double-handful

Seventh-if God is a spirit, then man is a spirit, and an atom of the God-spirit or spiritual Father, and Creator of all things. Now, if all matter and electricity come from the sun its creator, in an invisible state, and return to him in an invisible state, then by natural law and analogy man in his invisible state originally came from his Creator, who dwells in the sun or suns, and at death will return to Him. And Moses was right and expressed a scientific truth when he said, "But thy soul shall return to the God who gave it." And Christ spoke a great truth when he said, "I go to My Father." Not only Christ, but all men, shall go to their Father, when they step out of this overcoat of atoms we call the body. And we may even take some of these atoms with us as a souvenir to show to the inhabitants of the next world what material enveloped us in this. In fact, in our future existence we will likely take on a body of these same atoms, only more ethereal and incorruptible.

Eighth-when we reason at the foundation of things there is nothing strange or unusual about man having a soul, or being able to transport it with the speed of lightning to the sun and stars. Since the matter of which his body is composed in its normal condition can do this, it would be strange indeed if that which commands, thinks, and reasons for the body could not do it.

The Bible expressed a great scientific truth, but recently discovered by scientists, when it said, "The invisible is greater than the visible, the unseen than the seen," and, "the things which are seen were not made of the things which do appear."

All visible things are made of invisible things that do not appear, but are greater than all visible

things. The invisible soul or mind that controls the body and weighs suns and measures worlds is greater than the body.

The invisible atoms and electricity that weave the body as a deft weaver weaves his warp and woof, his silks and tapestries, and give it motion and vital power, are greater than the ever-changing frail drapery of visible matter they weave around the conscious soul.

We speak of solid matter, but there is no solid matter. Our bodies are not solid; iron, steel, lead, marble, granite are not solid. They are the most solid forms of matter we know; but they are full of pores or openings that the microscope reveals. Electricity, atoms, the sun's rays can pass through them. Photographs can be taken through them of objects on the opposite side of them by the Crooke's tube or the Roentgen rays. They can be reduced to a fluid, then a vapor, and breathed into a human body and become a part of it; and a chemist can detect the same molecules in the flesh and blood.

People who do not think scientifically believe their bodies are solid. But they are not. They are almost as porous as a sponge. Atoms and sunshine, air and electricity pass through them as if they were not there. They have a million of air ducts or breathing inlets and outlets to every square inch, and vast systems of sewers for draining off decaying matter. The anatomists tell us we throw off from two to ten pounds daily of waste matter, depending on health, vigor, and exercise..

Seventy-eight per cent of the body, they say, is water, the balance is earthy matter or bone dust. So that man's body, anatomically speaking, is four or five bucketsful of water and a double-handful

of earth dust or star dust; and consists of the food he eats, the water he drinks, and the air or electrical atoms and energy he breathes from the sun. These electrical atoms he gets fresh from the sun every eight minutes, and he could not live without them five minutes. He can do without water several days and without food forty days, but not five minutes can he exist without breathing a part of the sun into his body. Thus, "we live, move, and have our being," our physical being in the sun, as we have our spiritual being in God; and they ought to be very nearly related. Flammarion says what we call "atoms are centres of force that do not touch each other and revolve around one another.” He also says: "The immortality of the soul is already demonstrated by philosophy, and will be speedily proven by psychology."

Are our senses a safe guide to determine the nature and character of our physical life, let alone our spiritual life? Let us see. We are breathing into our bodies the dissolved elements of the sun-atoms and electricity. Waste matter and arterial and venous blood are passing and repassing through our bodies, and we are unconscious of it. Our senses take no cognizance of pulse beats, and brain throbs, and the constant and enormous pumping and toiling of our heart valve, if our bodies are in a normal condition.

But the abstruse metaphysicians like Hudson intimate that the subjective or subconscious mind may know these things. But does it? Does the subjective mind know how we digest our food and assimilate it; how our blood circulates; how electricity permeates the system, and the muscles respond to the will? If so it should have revealed it long

ago to our senses and our conscious mind. But the mind is one mind; and subjective mind and objective mind are only abstruse distinctions that are deceptive and unreliable.

And so are our senses deceptive and unreliable in dealing with the fundamental elements of matter and life and force. Our senses say the sun rises and sets; but science demonstrates it does not. Our senses, when we are travelling on a swift train, say the trees, telegraph poles, and solid ground are passing us swiftly; but they are not.

When we look up at the sun on a bright, clear day, there is an ocean of water over our head which electricity could let down in a second and deluge the earth. But we do not see it. And thus our senses do not take cognizance of a thousand things that are as real as our bodies, our hands, our feet, and the sun and earth.

These are the invisible realities that constitute more than ninety-nine per cent of the universe. Invisible matter is more than ninety-nine per cent of all matter, and is the only element of the three primary elements that is ever made visible, or of which any part is made visible on this earth. Electricity, the handling, weighing, moving, controlling force in nature, is always invisible. Yet everything that exists, or lives, and grows and adds toitself by accretion or assimilation, does it by the electro-magnetic process. This is an invisible process, by which insensate matter becomes vital and organic matter.

The only other primary element is invisible, reasoning, directing spirit-the eternal, intelligent, guiding spirit of creative Deity; and man's spirit, which is an atom of Deity. God is a Spirit, and man is a spirit, and spirit can go where it will.

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