268 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



impossible to put a limit of measurement to the power of its 

 omnipotence. 



FINITY, on the other hand, must of necessity be 



VISIBLE, MEASURABLE and LIMITED, 



otherwise it would cease to be FINITE and become infinite. 

 Man, being Finite, may become eternal, but cannot become 

 infinite, otherwise he would become a spirit and cease to be a 

 visible or measurable creation. Neither can he understand 

 Infinity, although he may imagine its existence and compre- 

 hend its qualities sufficiently to believe in what he cannot 

 understand. His mind is invisible, but both measurable and 

 limited, and his mind limits his understanding. But his soul 

 is both invisible, unlimited but measurable, so he can exert a 

 measurable degree of belief and comprehension and an un- 

 limited power of imagination of that which he can neither 

 see nor measure. The third wave of energy is the creative 

 electron of Infinity, so I doubt if we will ever find out what 

 the third wave of energy consists of. At present we have 

 positive and negative electrons or io>ns of electricity, both of 

 which are invisible and unlimited, but measurable in their 

 actions and effects. But we are never to have divine wisdom, 

 only human, and ultimately complete natural wisdom, but 

 never to attain what is supernatural ; so I doubt if we will ever 

 learn the third force of electricity. Having defined Infinity, 

 I now hear my reader exclaim, " Then what constitutes the 

 limitations between what is natural, superhuman, and super- 

 natural?" All is natural that is visible to the eye, measurable 

 by the touch, and can be limited by the understanding of the 

 human mind. But man can only measure the universe from 

 the standard of his understanding of his own environments. 

 He can only comprehend eternity from the unit of his indi- 

 vidual life, and can only imagine infinity from the starting 

 point of his own Finity. So only what he can understand is 

 natural. That is super-human which is invisible to his eye, 

 that he can feel, is unable to control, and can only partially 

 understand. That is super-natural that defies his understand- 

 ing, puzzles his comprehension, and appeals only to his imagi- 

 nation, but which his impartial understanding compels him to 

 admit the existence of but cannot accept without doubting; 

 because the laws of nature, as he understands them, contradict 



