THE NATURAL 



it*,?*** 



. single gush of thought. A single out-push of a demand, 

 made by a spermatic sea of sufficient energy to cast such 

 a form. To cast it as one electric pole will cast a spark 

 to another. To exteriorize. Sometimes to act in this 

 with more enthusiasm than caution. 



Let us say quite simply that light is a projection from 

 the luminous fluid, from the energy that is in the brain, 

 down along the nerve cords which receive certain vibra- 

 tions in the eye. Let us suppose man capable of exteri- 

 orizing a new organ, horn, halo, Eye of Horus. Given a 

 brain of this power, comes the question, what organ, and 

 to what purpose? 



Turning to folk-lore, we have Frazer on horned gods, 

 we have Egyptian statues, generally supposed to be 

 "symbols," of cat-headed and ibis-headed gods. Now in 

 a primitive community, a man, a volontaire, might risk 

 it. He might want prestige, authority, want them enough 

 to grow horns and claim a divine heritage, or to grow 

 a cat head; Greek philosophy would have smiled at 

 him, would have deprecated his ostentation. With primi- 

 tive man he would have risked a good deal, he would 

 have been deified, or crucified, or possibly both. Today 

 he would be caught for a circus. 



One does not assert that cat-headed gods appeared in 

 Egypt after the third dynasty; the country had a long 

 memory and such a phenomenon would have made some 

 stir in the valley. The horned god would appear to have 

 persisted, and the immensely high head of the Chinese 

 contemplative as shown in art and the China images is 

 another stray grain of tradition. 



But man goes on making new faculties, or forgetting 

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