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others to bring the wonderful thought to completion in other 

 directions possibly quite beyond our power to conceive under 

 the conditions we are accustomed to here. 



A great forest tree forms each year a multitude of separate 

 buds ; each of these bu'ls is an independent plant which has 

 only a temporary existence and has no present knowledge of 

 the other buds, but it is by means of all these buds and the 

 leaves they develop, that the tree is nourished and increases 

 from year to year. Still more wonderful is the fact that it is 

 these temporary existences which, in accordance with the 

 general law of life-reproduction, form special ovules which we 

 call seeds, each of which has the potentiality for growing up 

 into a great forest tree, which, in its turn, is capable of pushing 

 forth temporary existences in countless directions. We have 

 in the above process of creating a Forest Tree a likeness on the 

 Physical plane to what I would suggest is the process, not only 

 of the creation of the Kace, but on the Transcendental Plane 

 the multiplication of permanent personalities by means of, or in 

 connection with, the temporary and Space-limited Human 

 Physical Ego. 



Again, as the Human mind forms a thought, clothes it in 

 Physical language, and sends it forth in such a form as not only 

 affects our material sense of hearing but conveys to the hearer 

 the very thought itself, so the whole Physical Universe is a 

 temporarv and Space-limited representation of the Eeality 

 which is behind, is, in fact, the materialization of the Will or 

 Thought of the Great Spirit. The " taking root " or advent of 

 the Spiritual to the genus homo made it possible for man to 

 interpret the Good, Beautiful, and True in the phenomena of 

 Nature, and as we, by studying these materializations, gain 

 knowledge of the Eeality, and our personalities become real 

 powers, so may we at length approach the point where we may 

 feel that we are thinking, or liaving divulged to us, the very 

 thoughts of God; and, though it may never be possible in this 

 life to form a full conception of the Eeality, we may, I think, even 

 with our present state of knowledge, aspire to understand the 

 messages conveyed to us in some of the multitudinous forms 

 under which these thoughts are presented to us, and I propose 

 giving you an example of this later on. 



Once more, in the case of a picture, it is possible, by examhiing 

 and comparing a number of certain short lines in perspective, 

 to discover not only the position occupied by the Artist but also 

 the point to which all those lines converge, so ("as 1 attempted in 

 my former paper) by examining and combining certain lines of 



