May 18, 1900.] 



SCIENCE. 



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man barnyard, have called Mythology, it 

 shall be theirs to recall. 



" ' There were giants in those days,' it is 

 said. There shall be giants again. Not in 

 bodily size perhaps, for the body of Goliath 

 was a cumbersome shield of a dwarfed per- 

 sonality, but giants in power, demi-gods 

 and archangels whose lightest thought 

 shall shame all Science's boasted action. 



" And right here in Alcalde, green cres- 

 cent of the sun-kissed hills, now at the end 

 of the longest, darkest, noisiest and most 

 helpless of all the centuries of time shall 

 the lost life begin again, the lost mysteries 

 of the human priesthood be recovered, the 

 lost aureole of man's youth become the 

 glory of humanity's ripened age ! " 



This gracious remark led Mr. Dean to ex- 

 tol the pastoral beauties of Alcalde, which 

 of all our towns most resembles in its set- 

 ting the clustering deodars of Kapelvastu in 

 the Hindu- Oudh, where Gautama was born. 

 This comparison was suggested, no doubt, 

 by a remark of the secretary (though I say 

 it who should not), who likened his own 

 fair hamlet on the Stanislaus to an abode 

 of Mahatmas on some velvet green meadow, 

 above a Himmalaj'an gorge, rich with hid- 

 den treasures of thought and gold, while 

 above both alike rose ' the great silent 

 wonder of the snows. ' 



But he soon turned to other matters and 

 closed his eloquent address with a classifi- 

 cation of the lines of thought which radiate 

 from Sciosophy. 



Taking the strange science of Quatern- 

 ions as an illustration Mr. Dean demon- 

 strated its basal assumption that in astral 

 space a straight line is the longest distance 

 between two given points. All other lines 

 are consequently shorter and from this dis- 

 covery, mathematics divides into two sci- 

 ences, and the new science brings into the 

 world a vast play of mental activity and a 

 gigantic array of unsuspected truths. 



" By the same method, we have only to 



assume that some part of the body material 

 or astral is more sensitive than the visible 

 eye or ear. From this discovery arises the 

 vast science of Telepathy or more exactly 

 Telepathology. The central fact of this 

 science rests on the extension of the aura 

 of the sensator across time and space to the 

 astral eye or ear of the sensatee. By this 

 process, all manner of suggestions may be 

 transmitted, and these over any distance or 

 through any time. It is as easy for ex- 

 ample for me, as an adept, to speak to Mar- 

 cus Brutus, through Telepathy, as for me 

 to speak to the Lama of Thibet, and equally 

 easy for Plato or Ptolemy to speak to me 

 Through this power I may yet dissuade 

 Brutus from his awful deed, or save Caesar 

 from that ambition through which fell em- 

 perors and angels. Knowing this, the whole 

 significance or Sciosophy of history must be 

 re-written. Nothing comes ever too late in 

 time and the great tangled fabric of the 

 past is ever open to reconstruction. 



" To continue such investigations we 

 may further assume that any supposed law 

 of nature is something difi'erent from what 

 it appears to be. A definition creates a new 

 science. Thus if we transpose the law of 

 heredity we give to the ancient wisdom of 

 Eeincarnation, and the transmigration of 

 the astral ego, all the perpetuity which in 

 scientific circles through like methods is 

 ascribed to the ' Germ Plasm. ' The vast 

 range of phenomena commonly classed as 

 ' Eeverberations from the Monkey State,' 

 or ' Echoes of the Fish Existence,' finds 

 in reincarnation a simple explanation. 

 Even past reincarnations are never fixed ; 

 all that is or was or shall be lies open to 

 our volition. It is one of the great charms 

 of Sciosophy that with each new dictum ac- 

 cepted, we have a new series of concilia- 

 tions and explanations. And the perfec- 

 tion of each of these makes good the 

 hypothesis with which we started and 

 forms the basis for as many more. 



