GOD IN MAN 



by mind over matter. We employ forces of whose 

 strength we are ignorant as yet ; and on many lines 

 of mental inquiry we are proceeding rapidly to- 

 wards a common meeting-point, whither we shall 

 find that all religions and sciences, all philoso- 

 phies and all wanderings in the darkness in our 

 search for truth, have always tended that point 

 where man, perfect in knowledge of truth and con- 

 scious power of mind, will complete his evolution 

 and be worthy to join his Father, leaving the husk 

 of the dead world behind to be used again in an- 

 other evolution. 



Thus the science of religion or the religion of 

 science, call it which you will teaches that God 

 exists in this world in the human mind and that 

 each of us is a temporary vehicle of a spark of 

 the Spirit. 



Raised above the natural struggle for exist- 

 ence, man has no longer need for those incessant 

 slow processes of physical improvement which 

 other animals achieve to enable them to keep level 

 with jostling rivals. His advance is entirely on the 

 Godlike side of his being, in his intellectual and 

 moral qualities, where he has no rivals ; and, con- 

 trasted with the imperceptibily slow rate of physi- 

 cal evolution, his progress has been marvelously 

 rapid and grows faster year by year. 



As an animal, man needs no improvement to 

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