; The Master-Key of Creation 2* 



never before. For generations men read Bud- 

 dha's declaration that ignorance was " the root of 

 the huge poison-tree of mundane existence with its 

 trunk of pain; " but, ignoring his " Wheel of the 

 Law" in the body, they have sought for knowl- 

 edge far-afield, everywhere but within in self-j 

 study and self-examination. And alas! so far 

 have men depreciated the higher self in man which 

 differentiates him from the lower animals, that 

 they have thought to arrive at accurate knowledge 

 of his physical characteristics by submitting help- 

 less brutes to the tortures of vivisection. 



When the scientist understands the Tattvic Law 

 of the Universe, which opens to him the miracle- 

 world of Nature's forces, he will realize what aw- 

 ful powers of discord he thus sets in motion, 

 powers which, by an immutable law, must return, 

 like a boomerang, upon himself! Then, indeed, 

 will the helpless dumb creatures be freed from 

 man's reign of terrorism. 



When we speak of harmony as inseparable from 

 health and all joy in living and doing, we are not 

 dealing with an abstract quality but with a con- 

 crete principle of motion underlying the ceaseless 

 activities, visible and invisible, of our Universe 

 a macrocosm in which there is no " dead matter," 

 but life, life everywhere. To the minutest parti- 

 cle, all is vibrating with ceaseless energy in that 

 mysterious, invisible realm which men are begin- 



