THE GREAT MANUSCRIPT 



a Spanish to-morrow. And in this invisi- 

 bility and elusiveness one finds its closest re- 

 semblance to the Power which evoked it, and 

 in the wonders wrought by it, a mighty 

 bolster to our faith. For if a force so silent 

 and elusive as the finite mind can project 

 into the material world creation after crea- 

 tion, now delicate as the poetic pinions of 

 imagination, now solid as the sculptured 

 stone of a cathedral, why should it be 

 thought that an Infinite mind would find 

 greater difficulty in projecting into space the 

 worlds which people it? 



Unfortunately, the Mercury-like fleetness 

 of the mind, as well as its magic cloak of in- 

 visibility, blinds us concerning the vast scope 

 of its powers. Because it never tells us when 

 it runs away, and is so cheerfully our body 

 servant when we need it for the humdrum 

 affairs of life, we too often assume that it 

 is tethered to our little personality, and per- 

 fectly content to do intellectual chores for 

 us. But we have no warrant for such a con- 

 clusion. 



Nor does the fact that our mind uses our 



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