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SYDNEY T. KLEIN ON THE INVISIBLE IS THE REAL, 



It is only the narrow finite range of our outlook through ignorance 

 caused by race-infancy and our limited modes of perception 

 which, by the assertion of Self, the cause of all imperfections and 

 the antithesis of that purity or singleness of heart by which we 

 see God, blinds us with the illusions of evil, ugly and false, which 

 we read into our surroundings. 



How then can we free ourselves from this obsession and obtain 

 a glimpse of the real world, of which this world of appearances 

 is only the outw^ard shadow-form under the limitations of Time 

 and Space? 



In conclusion, I should like to ansv/er that question, and to 

 suggest, on the lines laid down in this paper, a way by which 

 it is possible for anybody, of whatever form of earnest religious 

 belief, to realise the presence within him. of what I have referred 

 to as his real spiritual personality, provided he has learnt to 

 look inwardly instead of outwardly, at the reality instead of the 

 shadow, namely at the meaning instead of the outward form of 

 his surroundings. 



Let me recapitulate. I have shown that the Invisible or 

 Spiritual is the real and that the Visible or Physical is only its 

 shadow-form as depicted on our finite senses under the limita- 

 tions of time and space. V/e have therefore to postulate two 

 aspects of the universe. The Spiritual which is immanent and 

 transcendental, and the physical which constitutes our world of 

 appearances. Every phenomenon in nature has therefore these 

 two aspects, the Spiritual and the Physical. 



If we analyse the human being we see these two aspects. The 

 Spiritual, an emanation from the Great Spirit, is the holy Son 

 of God growing up within each one of us and constitutes our 

 real personality. The physical self is the shadow or presenta- 

 tion of that real personality, on the limited plane of our con- 

 sciousness, it has the same life in common with all plants and 

 animals, and probably, as I have shown elsewhere, with even 

 inorganic matter and is a part of the world of appearances. 



It is a fundamental truth that before we can become conscious 

 of the real meaning and value of anjiihing, we must be able to 

 realise the connection which it has with our being. It therefore 

 follows that the way to solve the problem before us is to under- 

 stand the relation in which each of us stands to that wonderful 

 power behind all causation in the world of appearances. In other 

 words, the only way to know and realise the Spiritual is to feel 

 our oneness with it; and in order to feel our oneness with the 

 Spiritual under our present conditions of race-infancy and there- 

 fore ignorance, we have first to realise the oneness of the physical 

 self, which is the outward shadow-form of our real Spiritual self, 

 with the physical universe, which is the outward shadow- form of 

 the Great Spirit. 



