SYNTHESIS OF THE NATURAL AND THE SUPERNATURAL 



supernatural work. The natural and the supernarural 

 meet in human nature. 



Two questions, which have a fascination for lovers of 

 the occult, are suggested by this discussion, though here 

 they cannot be dealt with. The first may be stated thus : 

 Does the primal Creative Spirit, by special interposition in 

 His own order, raise it to a higher ? The second is : Does 

 He interpose through other spirits than those in the flesh ? 

 In answer, which must be perfunctory, suffice it to say in 

 reference to the latter question, that the tendency of the 

 modern mind is to be incredulous of ghostly interference, 

 either in the physical or psychic order of nature. As to 

 the former query, observe that it is not : can the Primal 

 Spirit interpose ? It is : does He? Observation of nature 

 must decide. Now the outstanding stages in human 

 development, as every student of history knows, have been 

 associated with certain great personalities, who became the 

 embodiment and symbol of the ideal of a new and higher 

 order which had been gradually coming into the conscious- 

 ness of the community. Thus the development of human 

 nature, individually, socially, nationally and as a race has 

 been achieved through and by human personalities. In 

 other words, man, as the personal vehicle of the progres- 

 sive ideal of humanity, has been, by virtue of his 

 implication in the Eternal, working out his perfection, 

 while the Eternal Spirit has been "working in him to will 

 and to do of his own pleasure." And, let me add, the 

 Highest among men has been, is, and ever must be His 

 most powerful winsome and transforming personal vehicle 

 in creating the new heaven and the new earth. 



