HEAT AND COLD. 



which never come from nothingness, feeds on itself; 

 and in consequence lapses into practically nothing. 

 The brain's office is to weigh matter; weighing matter, 

 it feeds on matter and thrives. Weighing nothing, as 

 in the case of waiting for revelation, it feeds on itself. 

 Man when he leaves the field of matter and 

 gropes off in the dead past, looking for a word from 

 some one instead of taking impressions from what is 

 really manifest, corrupts his brain. The brain being 

 capable of a certain amount of work within a given 

 time, like any other property of matter. If the time 

 is taken up in groping into space and concentrating all 

 its impressions upon that one subject, trying to glean 

 a word from nothing and nothingness, it cannot work 

 on the weighing of matter. In groping for the 

 imaginary being who is going to tell the brain what 

 is next, it loses its right to decide. It surrenders its 

 right which nature has given it in measuring matter 

 by impressions. It dare not pass judgment on the im- 

 pressions transferred by the sensory nerves by contact, 

 fearing that the great one will punish it for its temer- 

 ity. In fact, it puts the ban on mankind as to perpet- 

 uation, because it denies him the right to weigh matter 

 and work toward its molding into condition tending 

 to conserve his kind. The great one as deemed by our 

 gospel truths, as they dare to call them, means the ex- 

 tinction of mankind. Extinction of mankind means 

 transformation of our world by withering and loss of 

 heat. And a trip through space to aid in building up 

 another body in space at some distant region. 



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