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is only by the process of analysing in Time and Space that we 

 imagine there is such a thing as succession of events ; — that 

 the only Eeality is the Spiritual, the Here embracing all space 

 and the ^sTow embracing all Time. 



How few of us who are now drawing towards the end of our 

 sojourn here, have not, at certain times during their lives, 

 experienced something akin to what 1 have tried to put before 

 you in the above. Does not a particular scent, a beautiful 

 country scene, a phrase in Music, the beauty or patlios in a 

 picture, symbolic sculpture in a grand Cathedral or even a 

 chance word spoken in our hearing, every now and then waken 

 in our innermost consciousness an enchanting memory of some 

 wonderful happy moment of the past, when the sun seemed to 

 have been shining more brightly, the birds singing more 

 merrily, when everything in Nature seemed more alive and our 

 very being seemed wrapped np in an intense love of our 

 surroundings ? On those occasions we were not far from 

 seeing behind the veil, though we did not recognize it at the 

 time, but when we now look back, with experience gained by 

 advancing years, and consider those visions of the past, we 

 cannot help but see that the physical film was to our eyes more 

 transparent at those times, and the very joy of their 

 remembrance seems to be giving us a prescience of that which 

 we shall experience when for each one of us the physical film is 

 pricked and passes away like a scroll. 



As long as we are on this side of the Veil we are, as we have 

 already seen, dependent for knowledge of surroundings upon 

 our perception of movements and, as our Conceptional Know- 

 ledge is based on Perceptional Knowledge, our very thoughts 

 are under the limits of Time and Space and can only deal with 

 finite subjects ; from this arises all our difficulty of understand- 

 ing the Infinite, we cannot know the whole truth, we can only 

 think of one finite subject at a time, and at that moment all 

 other subjects are cancelled ; we can, in fact, only think in 

 sequences, we can only think of points in Time and Space as- 

 existing beyond or before other fixed points, which again must 

 be followed by other points. The whole Truth is there before 

 us but we can only examine it in a form of finite sequences. A 

 Book contains a complete story but we can only know that 

 story by taking each word in succession and insisting that one 

 word conies in front of another and yet the Story is lying before 

 us complete. So with Creation, we are forced to look upon it 

 as a long line going back to past eternity and another long line 

 going on to future eternity and, with our limitations, we can 



