MICHAEL PUPIN 201 



Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with 

 all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 



Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 



These two commandments are the fundamental law 

 in Christ's spiritual dynamics. It is obvious that 

 under the guidance of this law we can liberate our- 

 selves from the dominating love of purely material 

 things and thus rescue our own individual lives and 

 the life of humanity from the threatening chaos, and 

 transform it into that life of simple law and beautiful 

 order. 



Creative co-ordination leads, therefore, to a higher 

 level of creation by the action of spiritual forces, just 

 as it does in the physical world by the action of phys- 

 ical forces. It is the concept of this universal co- 

 ordinating process which unites the two worlds to 

 each other, so that our understanding of one will aid 

 our understanding of the other. The cultivation of 

 this view is encouraged by St. Paul: 



For the invisible things of Him 



From the creation of the world 



Are clearly seen, 



Being understood by the things that are made, 



Even His eternal power and Godhead. 



Yes, God's spiritual realities are invisible; but they 

 are illustrated and made intelligible by the physical 

 realities revealed in the physical things which are 

 made. According to this interpretation of the Apos- 

 tle's words the physical and the spiritual realities sup- 

 plement each other. They are the two terminals of 

 the same realities; one terminal residing in the human 

 soul, and the other In the things of the external world. 



