MECHANISM OF NATURE 



every slow growth of development through changes 

 in environment, there is, in the accepted theories 

 of evolution, an inherent power of attraction, of 

 occult selection, in the last instance, ever the prod- 

 uct of an occult desire. And growth, from an in- 

 finite nothing at all, to an all-embracing infinite 

 perfection, this is the essence of evolution. This 

 also is the essence of the New Thought, as old as 

 the idolatry of the evolution Cave dweller. 



In opposition to this idolatry of occult force- 

 inherence there has been, from time immemorial, 

 a philosophy of Monoism, perhaps best expressed 

 in the lofty Agnosticism of Moses: "I Am That 

 I Am." 



The eternal beginning, the endless end, this is 

 beyond all human reason. Science has nothing to 

 do with this. Pure science is the knowledge of the 

 changes wrought in matter by force. And Art is 

 the recording of abstract thought in material. Any 

 true religion is a conscious relation of a conscious 

 finite Identity to an Infinite Consciousness. 



Certainly force is infinite and occult; it is ever 

 beyond human reason until human reason itself be 

 changed. 



But any manifestation of the one infinite force 

 is just as finite as any material. And the identity 

 of any force manifestation does not consist in, or 

 result from, any identity inherent in the manifesta- 

 tion, but only through material, organized forms 

 can a universal displacement of void matter be 

 varied into identical manifestations of force. 

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