CHAPTER XIV 



MAN'S PLACE IN THE PERPETUATION OF 

 THE PLANET. 



He is one of nature's greatest restorers of the dor- 

 mant energies held in reserve, through his liberating 

 same. Man generally believes when he makes some 

 important discovery within the order of nature, by his 

 studies, that he is revolutionizing the order of nature, 

 in liberating the energy hidden away by nature. He 

 gives himself the credit of being a more important 

 being than the universe, being gifted with such great 

 powers that to him all earthly matter and all earthly 

 movement must bend in worship. He believes that all 

 these great things were made by some great man, and 

 that the greatness of the original being was natural, 

 being that the great one who did the great work re- 

 sembled himself. The being could not be other than 

 powerful who should resemble the great one in him- 

 self, being of his image and likeness would in itself 

 make the great one much greater. Man, in attributing 

 all the greatness to one of like image and likeness, 

 seems to be unaware that it is not the love of a great 

 one, but is in fact the love of the ego coming out in the 

 case of a third person. Every man who bows to such 

 worship of the great one, in his own heart knows that 

 the ground whereon the great one has been built; has 



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