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of rare snowflake crystals. Creative co-ordination is, 

 therefore, the only process which will lift the life of 

 humanity from lower to higher levels of creation. It 

 is the bridge which connects the world of physical to 

 that of spiritual realities. It is the guide from lower 

 to higher levels in the physical as well as in the spir- 

 itual world. 



But creative co-ordination is unthinkable unless 

 there are intrinsic forces acting upon the chaotic gran- 

 ules which are to be co-ordinated. History records 

 innumerable evidences which testify that among the 

 co-ordinating forces in the life of man and of human- 

 ity the spiritual forces are the most powerful co-ordl- 

 nators. The similarity between the operations of 

 physical forces and spiritual forces Is the second re- 

 semblance between physical and spiritual realities. 



The testimony of Christ Is, according to our Chris- 

 tian belief, by far the most convincing of all the tes- 

 timonies relating to the co-ordinating action of the 

 spiritual forces. The arguments supporting this belief 

 appeal to our reason with the same force as the argu- 

 ments supporting a well-established physical theory. 

 Our Christian knowledge of the spiritual forces re- 

 vealed by Christ Is deeply rooted In the solid ground 

 of human experience of nearly two thousand years. 

 It is a house built upon the hard rock of experience, 

 and not upon the shifting sands of arbitrary hy- 

 potheses. This knowledge, like scientific knowledge, 

 is the extract of innumerable observations and experi- 

 ments recorded in the history of human lives. It Is, 

 therefore, as carefully tested and as trustworthy as 



