CONTENTS. 



Equal plus and minus Vibration A Universal Law Its 

 Significance Equal plus and minus = Is Nature Illu- 

 sion ? Is a Kevelation of the Unseen . 189 



CHAPTER XI. 

 THE ORGANIC AND THE INORGANIC. 



The Organic World not especially mysterious Is the part of 

 Nature best understood The Chemical Affinities being 

 pre-supposed, Organic Life is simple But Mystery is 

 shown by it Our Feeling the effect of Ignorance The 



"^feorganic World less within our view, therefore seeming 

 less Consciousness A similar Error Where we per- 

 ceive Nature most directly we perceive it as Conscious 

 Where indirectly, we perceive it as Unconscious True 

 Significance of these Facts All Nature a Conscious Exist- 

 ence Why the apparent Absence of Consciousness 

 What it were " to be one with Nature " The Organic 

 Kingdom not the highest part of Nature Is truly the 

 lowest Arises by a Limitation Our opposite Feelings 

 in respect to it Of Admiration and of Loathing Justifi- 

 cation and Meaning of them The Organic World exhibits 

 the Universal Beauty But perverted Significance of 

 Deformity and Disease. . . . , . . .196 



CHAPTER XII. 

 THE LIFE OF MAN. 



Moral Significance of Physical Life Spiritual Things ex- 

 hibited to the Eye of Sense The Control of Force in Life 

 The Control of Passion in Man The Growth of a Seed 

 Dependent on Resistance Passion resisted the Source 

 of Life The Law of Tension Its meaning Difference 

 of Man from Nature The Evil of his State Power of Ap- 

 pearances to Mislead Or to Guide Nutrition and Func- 

 tion The Ideas not Special Belong to Force universally 

 And to Human Life Are the Interpretation of 

 Failure and of Loss The Lessons taught by Nature 

 Which is most full of Spiritual Meaning when interpreted 



