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and the helmet of invisibility with which he anni- 

 hilates time, and space, and matter, and with which, in 

 effect, he may project himself far beyond the narrow 

 confines of his physical sanctuary into realms his 

 physical body may not enter. 



Imagination opens the gates of the universe. It is 

 life's open sesame to world freedom and to the accu- 

 mulated treasures of the world's experience. In his 

 search for wisdom, it gives man the instant power to 

 look over the edge of yesterday and the top of tomor- 

 row into the abyss of universal time ; to fly through and 

 beyond all physical barriers into the infinite expanse of 

 universal space ; to explore the dead past and invade the 

 germinating future. 



Ever checked and corrected, ever stimulated by its 

 increment in power, it is the common agency by which 

 man is perpetually upbuilding, renovating, and sys- 

 tematizing his science, his philosophy, and his religion; 

 short circuiting the roundabout methods of chance, and 

 hastening the discovery of the constructive way. 



VII. Basic Concepts: Creation, Growth, Obedience, 

 Service, Profit 



As man grew in bodily organization, his world 

 enlarged, that is, he was influenced by a larger number 

 and greater variety of things ; and as he grew in power 

 rightly to form mental images of this larger world, he 

 grew in knowledge and in wisdom. His wisdom con- 

 sisted not merely in the more profitable regulation of 

 his own conduct in reference to that of other men, but 

 also in reference to the conduct of plants and animals 

 and to that of the great world of inorganic things. 



