ACCEPTING THE UNIVERSE 



tween them. The flower and its stalk, the perfume 

 and the root, are one in the same sense. The mind 

 resides in the gray matter of the brain, and depends 

 upon the food we eat as truly as does the body. 



When we discuss these questions in terms of our 

 religious training we reach far different conclusions, 

 or, rather, we start with far different conclusions; 

 but how can we relate these conclusions to the con- 

 crete facts as we know them? 



There is enough that is verifiable in clairvoyance 

 and mind-reading and mental healing to convince 

 us that we are immersed in a world of subtle forces 

 that ordinarily we wot not of; that in some way a 

 process of give and take between us and these things 

 is constantly going on, and that our relation to 

 them is at least one form or suggestion of our im- 

 mortality. We are a part of the wave of energy that 

 sweeps through the cosmos, as truly as the drops 

 of the sea hold and convey the tidal impulse. We 

 know, or think we know, the sources of this tidal 

 impulse, but the attraction between earth and moon 

 and sun is reciprocal — a give-and-take process 

 — and is only a phase of the sum total (if the In- 

 finite can be said to have a sum total) of the energy 

 of the cosmos. 



The magnet and magnetism are one. If you melt 

 or pulverize the magnet, you dissipate, but do not 

 destroy the magnetism. The clouds come and go; 

 now we see them, and then there is only blue sky 



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