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be absolutely ignorant of the change, and if this were cnrried to 

 extremes and everything happened infinitely quicker and all 

 our surroundings became infinitely smaller, we could have no 

 cognizance of the change, our sun and the stars with their 

 respective distances might be reduced in size until they w^ere no 

 larger than the molecules of iron in the blade of a pocket-knife, 

 or infinitely smaller, an eternity compressed into a moment, but 

 our earth w^ould continue on its orbit round the sun, our daily 

 life would go on as usual, and we should have no knowledge of 

 change. We must recognize, therefore, that time and space are 

 not realities but are limits only, set to our corporeal senses, in 

 fact, they are but transient conditions under which matter exists. 

 The Spiritual, the Present, the Here, are the only realities, all 

 else is but shadow which will cease to exist when the Light of 

 Truth reigns supreme. 



With these conclusions before us I will suggest a new 

 conception of the Creation. All creation around us is the 

 materialisation of the Thought of the Deity, He does not require 

 time to think as we do, the whole of the Universe is therefore 

 one instantaneous thought of the Great Reality ; the forming of 

 this world and its destruction, the appearance of man, the birth 

 and death of each one of us, is absolutely at the same instant, 

 it is only our finite minds which necessitate drawing this 

 thought out into a long line, and from our want of knowledge 

 and our inability to grasp the whole, conceiving that one event 

 happened before or after another. In our finite way we 

 examine and strive to understand this wondrous Thought, and 

 at last, a Darwin, after a lifetime spent in accumulating facts on 

 this little isolated spot of the Universe, discovers what he thinks 

 to be a law of sequences and calls it the evolution theory, but 

 this and other theories are probably 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. 



Let me give you a similar example of creation by a word 

 which even our finite minds can grasp. AVhen I utter the word 

 cat, it starts a practically instantaneous thought in your minds, 

 the power of that thought being dependent upon the knowledge 

 you have gained. If you analyse it you will find that, though 

 instantaneous, it comprises all the sensations you have ever felt 

 on that subject throughout your whole life. It commenced, 

 perhaps, when you were only a year old, and sitting on your 

 mother's knee, your hand was made to stroke a kitten, and you 



