192 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



from you. I am an astral baby now, and will be a 

 baby still when a million years hence you receive this 

 message. Many billions of years will pass before the 

 ardor of my youth has cooled down to the moderation 

 of your central star, the sun. Heaven only knows 

 when I shall be as old as your old mother earth. But 

 when I reach that age I shall be a beautiful cosmic 

 bell just like your earth and responding to the clappers 

 of the luminous stars, I shall add my voice to the celes- 

 tial choir which Is declaring the glory of God." 



This is my answer to the question, What Is light? 



The answer was prepared In the world of the human 

 soul where a divine power resides, and It recalls to 

 memory the faint strokes of the vesper-bell of my 

 native village of sixty years ago, and my mother's 

 voice saying, "Michael, do you not hear the divine 

 message which calls you to the altar of the Almighty 

 God?" 



Creative co-ordination Is not a metaphysical abstrac- 

 tion; It Is a familiar physical process which meets us 

 everywhere. The steam-engine and the snow-flake; 

 the cycles of the moving water masses which carry 

 their blessings to the thirsty terrestrial continents; the 

 growth of plants and animals — all tell the same simple 

 story of creative co-ordination. It Is a physical opera- 

 tion defined In terms of physical laws, and It exhibits 

 a progressive advance from lower to higher forms of 

 orderly structures and functions In the organic as 

 well as the inorganic world; a continuous rise from 

 lower to higher levels. 



The beauty of the sunset, a living picture of joy 

 in the world of our consciousness, Is the ultimate prod- 



