SOUNDINGS 



beginning to the sequence of cause and effect. It is a 

 circle that ends and begins forever in itself. Men 

 find what they call God in action, in experience, 

 because in these practical dealings with the forces 

 of this world they are under the law of cause and 

 effect. They find beginnings and endings, they find 

 an upper and an under side, they find a lower and a 

 higher, a greater and a smaller: but in thought all 

 things are relative. Some wise man has said that if 

 there were no God, we should have to invent one — • 

 invent one if we wish to explain the world in the 

 terms of human experience. Thinking turns the 

 world topsy-turvy. 



Our religious natures are still Ptolemaic. The 

 heavens still revolve around us. We do not with 

 the eye of the flesh see ourselves in this world as on 

 a sphere — on a celestial body floating in space; we 

 see ourselves as on an endless plain over and under 

 which the heavenly bodies pass. It is only with the 

 eye of the mind that we see things in their true re- 

 lation and see that there is no up and no down, no 

 under and no over, apart from the earth, and no 

 God who rules as a ruler rules. We do not gain the 

 tremendous facts of astronomy through our every- 

 day experience; our search after scientific truth re- 

 veals them to us. Through this inquiry we see the 

 grand voyage we are making among the stars, and 

 see that the heavens are not a realm apart from us, 

 the abode of superior beings, but are our veritable 



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