CORROBORATIVE READINGS 



" In the beginning, . . . were beings three dimen- 

 sional, yes, even more, with full plentitude of dimensions 

 and every power, faculty, quality, living a blessed life, 

 with all that heart or mind could desire. But they were 

 small. Small in a vast Universe. As a little family 

 living on a hillside have love and song and joy, all happi- 

 ness, and contentment, yet to keep and preserve their 

 happiness and j oy, they must turn and labour to conquer 

 the floods, the inclemencies of the seasons, the dangers of 

 nature, so these glorious beings, because they were small 

 in a vast Universe, had to meet danger and difficulty. 

 The efforts of each by himself were minute and ineffica- 

 cious, therefore they combined together, united their ef- 

 forts, made organisms which in the perfection of their 

 action and the precision and perfection with which they 

 carried out their functions became not mere compound 

 bodies, but new individuals. Each of these individuals 

 by the mere fact of its existence, each, simply by being 

 put on the scene, meant the safeguarding, the protection, 

 the insurance of the happy noble life of its constituents 

 and makers. And each in turn, in virtue of its complete- 

 ness and perfectness, entered as an individual on a life of 

 new experience, new meaning, new danger. For round 

 these new beings, new individuals, stretched the vast 

 Universe. The day of danger was not over, it loomed 

 different. The task of organisation was not over, it had 

 but assumed different proportions, demanded different 

 means. Then from the life within, from the happy life 

 within, full of all powers, all activities, there came the 



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