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velopment as are the ideals herein expressed, but one thousand 

 years after the mind of man no longer discarded them. Five 

 hundred years hence the same may apply to what I have 

 written in this chapter. For instance, Christ told us that His 

 Heavenly Father was the God of Light. This appears to be 

 the case, as the seven attributes of God the Father appear in a 

 measure to coincide with the spectrum of light. But so little 

 was scientific knowledge advanced two thousand years ago that 

 the people would have laughed if he had stated that God the 

 Holy Ghost was the God of Electricity, which science is now 

 proving to be a correct statement. When I wrote this chapter 

 I had not read a solitary work on radium or radio activity. I 

 knew that radium had been discovered, but I had been taught 

 when a boy to believe that life existed in Matter, not in space 

 and vacuum, so at the time of my writing this theory of 

 immortality it appeared to me that I was expounding views 

 that were unsubstantiated by facts and experience ; but, as I 

 have stated elsewhere, if I am to be strictly logical, it is in- 

 cumbent upon me to write whatever my hypothesis directs, 

 not what appears to me to be correct. 



I am not free to put down six because it looks a prettier 

 figure than five, if five is the figure that comes in the sum I 

 am endeavouring to work out. I wrote this chapter in October, 

 1915, and arrived at the conclusion that life must be an un- 

 broken and infinite existence apart from body, yet at the same 

 time impregnating, surrounding and controlling both body and 

 mind. That mind and soul were separate spiritual and external 

 existences as much apart from the material existence of both 

 body and life as space and ether are from the visible material 

 creation which they surround, impregnate and control, just as 

 the invisible infinity of God differs from the finite visible 

 portion of the Universe He has created, surrounds, impreg- 

 nates and controls. So it likewise appeared to me that Mind 

 and Soul must be the psychological likeness of God to which 

 mankind was created and which was to raise man above the 

 animal creation by enabling him, as he evolved wisdom, in the 

 same manner, but in a lesser degree, to create, rule and direct 

 the world, just as God created, rules and controls the Universe. 

 Also that God being the infinite form of Invisible Spirit, Ex- 

 istence and Soul, ever existent and immeasurable and eternal, 

 so the human soul must be likewise invisible, eternal but mea- 



