THE VISIBLE IS ONLY ITS SHADOW. 



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in a book. We shall only understand the whole problem of evil 

 when we can cease looking at it objectively and can use the infinite 

 spiritual outlook. The organic law of Reincarnation formulated by 

 the Brahmans and the theory of Evolution as expounded by Darwin 

 are both plausible and helpful attempts to enable our finite minds 

 under the limitations of time, to explain physical and spiritual 

 growth in this world of ''becoming/' but to the spiritual outlook 

 which is not limited by time, such explanations can have no value 

 because to the Infinite there can be no such thing as succession 

 of events. The same contributor makes the statement that ' in the 

 future world there will be much that is material and visible.' I 

 think I have shown clearly that matter is only our limited and 

 therefore ignorant aspect of spiritual activity ; does he imagine that 

 we shall have our imperfect physical sense organs to see and hear with 

 when we wake up from our present state of dreaming ? Doesn't he 

 know that the rills in the aether are absolutely dark and the waves 

 in the air are silent ? It is only when they fall on our sense 

 organs that they become light and sound. Surely everything that 

 is objective to us here will be subjective, when time and space have 

 ceased to limit our outlook and our consciousness is opened to 

 spiritual discernment. Matter, the limited aspect which we call 

 the visible, will then have disappeared for us, and only the spiritual, 

 which we call the invisible, will be known to be real. 



" We now come to the phrase : * The Holy Son of God growing 

 up within us.' May I suggest to Dr. Schofield and the other 

 protestors that the quotations given from the Old and New Testament 

 hardly seem to be applicable. Why are not Christ's own words 

 quoted ? He was the Son of God and He is therefore surely the 

 best authority for what constitutes a Son of God. We unfor- 

 tunately have not the exact words spoken by Christ, and in some cases, 

 perhaps, not even the exact meaning (He spoke in Aramaic, which 

 was translated into Greek and thence into English), but He was 

 very emphatic in His teaching that God was not only our Father, 

 but that the Kingdom in which that God dwelt was actually within 

 each one of us. He urged us to realise that Kingdom within us 

 and likened it to a grain of mustard seed which would ever grow 

 and increase. I might well, therefore, have stated that God Himself 

 was growing up within each one of us. Christ taught us to pray 

 ' Our Father,' and the last words He said to Mary in the garden 

 after His resurrection were : ' Go unto my brethren and say to 

 them that I ascend to my Father and their Father, to my God 

 and their God.' St. John also narrates that when the Jews came 

 out to stone Christ for blasphemy He pointed out to them that it 

 was written in their own law that ' Ye are Gods,' and asked them 

 how therefore He blasphemed when He called himself the Son of 

 God. We are surely an internal, not an external creation of the 

 All-loving. The knowledge of God, the realisation of the Christ, 



