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SYDNEY T. KLEIN, F.L.S.^ F.R.A.S.^ ON THE 



it is only from the fact of our finite minds requiring that 

 Thought to be drawn out into a long line and from our want 

 of knowledge and inability to grasp the whole truth that we 

 are forced to conceive that one event happens before or after 

 another. In our finite way we examine and strive to under- 

 stand this wondrous Thought and at last a Darwin, after a 

 lifetime spent in accumulating facts on this little spot of the 

 Universe, discovers what he thinks to be a law of sequences 

 and calls it the Evolution theory; but this is proba])ly only 

 one of countless other modes by which the intent of that 

 Thought is working towards completion, the apparent direction 

 of certain lines on that great tracing board of the Creator, 

 whereon is depicted the whole plan of His work. I shall now 

 try to carry our thoughts a step further towards appreciating 

 that in this wonderful Thought of the Great Spirit, whose 

 mind may be said to be omnipresent, each individual is a 

 working unit in the plan of Creation, each unit as it gains 

 knowledge of this thought, forms for itself a personality 

 helping forward the great work to its fulfilment ; without that 

 knowledge there can be no personality, no unit in the great 

 completed Thought, no life hereafter. 



The longer one lives and the more one studies the mystery 

 of " Being," the more one is forced to the conviction that in 

 every Human Being there are tw^o Personalities, call them what 

 you like, " The lieal Personality and its Image," " The Spiritual 

 and its Material Shadow," or " The Transcendental and its 

 Physical Ego." The former in each of these Duads is not 

 conditioned in Time and Space, is independent of Extension 

 and Duration, and must, therefore, be Omnipresent and Omni- 

 scient ; whereas the latter, being subservient to Time and Space, 

 can only think in finite words, requires succession of ideas to 

 accumulate knowledge, is dependent on perception of move- 

 ments for forming concepts of its surroundings and, without 

 this perception, would have no knowledge, no consciousness of 

 existence. 



Let us first try and understand the conditions under which 

 phenomena are presented to us. In our perception of sight 

 we find the greater the Light the greater the shadow ; a light 

 placed over a table throws a shadow on the floor, though not 

 sufficient to prevent our seeing the pattern of the carpet, but 

 increase the light and the shadow appears now so dark that no 

 pattern or carpet can be seen ; not that there is now less light 

 under the table, but the light above has to our sense of sight 

 created or made manifest a greater darkness, and so, throughout 



