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greatest sun, these worlds vary as do the 

 souls of men and may similarly become ex- 

 tinct through weakness and debasing pas- 

 sion.' ' The bodies of lost sun-souls are 

 called comets.' ' The cry of a lost sun- 

 soul,' the comet- shriek is ' the most terri- 

 ble sound that ever rings through the great 

 belt.' 



" Through such studies as these a vast 

 literature has arisen, but it is a mere drop 

 in the bucket as compared with the possible. 

 When men shall realize the basal principles 

 on which these discoveries rest, the rein- 

 carnational and recessional history of each 

 man and woman who has ever lived, with 

 all its hidden meanings shall be given to 

 the world. And by the same token, each 

 man and each woman who has ever lived 

 shall re- write the history in his own fashion, 

 for in Sciosophy, the past, like the present, 

 must depend solelj' on the point of view. 



" Still another line of investigation is this. 

 In those fields in which the material senses, 

 teach us nothing, we may create facts and 

 laws of our own volition. 



" Thus Chamisso and D'Assier have given 

 us the laws of the Spontaneous Activity of 

 Shadows. Mr. "William Q. Judge has shown 

 U8 how the Astral Ego may ' overcome the 

 natural illusions of Devachan,' and how 

 Yuga Kalpa and Manvantara may complete 

 the great Astral cycle of Avatars, reaching 

 at last the exploding point at which is 

 caused ' violent convulsions of the following 

 classes : (a) Earthquakes, (b) Floods, (c) 

 Fire, (d) Ice.' Through these methods the 

 thought movements so scientifically demon- 

 strated by Mr. Thomas Jay Hudson have 

 been laid bare. Similarly etheric vibrations 

 become words or things under the puissant 

 hand of a Blavatzky, or the flowing tongue 

 of a Besant. In this manner, the natural 

 history of spooks, wraiths, and night-fol- 

 lowers has become matter of fact, and the 

 laws once established in thought must re- 

 main, for science has no power to contro- 



vert aught but ponderable masses of matter. 

 It will be seen from this that all myths are 

 true, while all records of human achieve- 

 ment contain the element of myth. This 

 gives zest to the Higher Criticism whether 

 applied to Homer, to Daniel, or to William 

 Tell, and endlessly varied are the truths 

 which may be drawn from it. In like man- 

 ner to Egyptology, Anthropology and even 

 to Philology, the same methods are daily 

 applied and the more ancient the line of re- 

 search, the broader the harvest of its modern 

 aftermath. It is through a consistent ap- 

 plication of the methods of Sciosophy that 

 Lombroso discovered the marks or stigmata 

 that distinguish the genius, the degenerate, 

 and the fool. It was Sciosophy that made 

 Hegel a philosopher, Beaconsfield a states- 

 man, Flammarion an astronomer, and Wil- 

 berforce a saint. Sciosophj^ plays about the 

 doctrine of Heredity and the Ghosts and 

 Night-Followers (Gjengiingere), of Ibsen, 

 the spasmoids of Sarah Grand, the gro- 

 tesques of Poe, have taken their place 

 among astral realities. Our pathway is 

 blocked by apparitions of lost sins, our 

 wisdom balked by the frivolities of our fore- 

 fathers. Or should we care to relieve the 

 darkness of this picture, we may sweep all 

 these obstacles away by the angel wing of 

 the inherited virtues of our long vanished 

 grandmothers. Or if we turn our attention 

 from the broken lives of grown up folks, we 

 may trace similar influences at work in the 

 play of children. The child loves the swing's 

 refreshing sweep, because ancestral children 

 lay in the ape's treetop cradle. The child 

 likes to sleep with the cat because the touch 

 carries it back to the race's ancestral child- 

 hood when the maternal furry tail curled 

 round the infant lullaby. 



" Even the staid sciences which call them- 

 selves exact may be made to effervesce un- 

 der the touch of Sciosophy. We may 

 change the chemical elements. We may 

 photograph thought. We may analyze the 



