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to that exercise of the mind and of that knowledge which 

 is beyond (meta), — beyond mere sense perception and all 

 concerns of Life, Society, and whatever relates thereto, 

 looked at as truth from the point of view of the Supreme 

 Power of which they are the product. 



This mistranslation began as early as the Latin Vulgate, 

 and has continued down to this hour, protected with such 

 care by suborned dictionaries, and otherwise, that although 

 we have in the English language the cognate words, prog- 

 nostic, diagnostic, agnostic, it is still wanting in the words 

 metagnostic and metagnosticism, — although they are of 

 such supreme importance in relation to the coining of the 

 Kingdom of Heaven and the new and better society in which 

 humanity has been promised relief from the grievous bur- 

 dens of dominant imperfect Society. 



Meta-noetics being, then, for these reasons in part, as yet 

 an unborn science — unless it be concealed in Evolution as 

 its swaddling-clothes — we are hardly yet prepared to search 

 for the Social Sensorium, but must wait for its development 

 until the association of free-acting individual minds has in- 

 tegrated the new organism in some recognizable form. 



If these positions are sound, the backward state of Modern 

 Society, and the many afflictions it endures, are traceable 

 to the Christian Church and its priesthood, who have been 

 guilty of this falsification, and have hindered the normal 

 development of that new society which it was their duty to 

 help. 



Owing to what I believe is an unfortunate misunder- 

 standing, the evolution philosophy has also become associated 

 with important limitations of the human understanding, 

 and evolutionists have acquired, or assumed, the title of 

 Agnostics. Whatever may be the exigencies of strict phi- 

 losophy and truth in defining the limits of the knowable, 

 Evolution teaches that there are yet reserved possibilities 

 in the human race and mind. The physiologist and chem- 

 ist can now handle, weigh and analyze the material elements 

 out of which further intellectual evolution may come, and 

 it would seem too early to fix its absolute limits now. Cer- 

 tainty so far as the arena of societary evolution is con- 

 cerned, the intellect should have full scope, and philosophers 

 should not unite with priests in keeping it imprisoned. 



In their days of decline, the Greeks of Athens erected 

 an altar to the "Agnostic God." Paul, seeing that altar, 



