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apparent, not only in the actions of animals, 

 but in all natural phenomena : such as the 

 movements of the sun and planets in their 

 orbits ; the ebb and flow of tides ; the regular 

 succession of the seasons, etc. All these hap- 

 penings are governed by the same unerring 

 intelligence. 



The idea of infallibility is difficult to realize 

 because of the limitations of the self-conscious 

 reasoning mind, which fails to grasp what is 

 beyond personal experience. 



" Nature in her Divine purity " knows with- 

 out reasoning, therefore in pure nature all 

 works well and harmoniously ; there is no 

 evil, consequently no sin. What impurities 

 exist arise from want of knowledge in the 

 reasoning mind and so filter through to nature. 

 The fallible reasoning mind is inconstant ; 

 intuition and reason are at variance, hence 

 discord and strife. But this opens out a large 

 subject. In the meantime, it may be taken 

 that until the human mind has attained to 

 super-consciousness and is at one with the 

 Infinite, impurities must apparently contami- 

 nate nature in many directions. Nevertheless, 

 impurity is not a truly natural condition. 



Too long have we been following in the old 

 tracks ; so worn are they, indeed, as to have 

 become positively ruts out of which it is 



