What is the scientific study of human life?

The Scientific Study of Life

In the scientific study of life, the selective and inductive methods are the safest and best forms of procedure, drawing your deductions from demonstrated facts in Nature. A true working basis is absolutely essential and can only be had by a close observation of Nature around you.

Nature's laws are true, and when complied with you reap a perfect effect. When you deviate from the law, your hypothesis will lead you into labyrinths of error into which truth can never enter.

You find by natural conditions that you are a communicative and social being with mind channels expanded, which enables you to receive impressions of spirit thought, emanating from the Kingdom of Knowledge and Wisdom, which are reflections from the Infinite Mind Who has created laws, which are unchangeable and true. These laws are of such magnitude that you stand in awe and wonder at their grandeur.

Impressions are the factors, dominating the world forces. Were it not for the fact that the work of the past ages has developed your mind until today you have mastered the product of thought action, spirit could not reach you and develop the great things that face you today.

The aim and object of spirit is to further the great truths that lie in the recesses of Nature, and when the willing hands are at work, an unlimited field stands open for active duty.

The scientific study of life brings you within the bounds of human reason and does away with all forms of deception. At the same time, it enhances your scope of mental attainment. 

The resources of the Infinite Mind are at your command and enrich your own perceptions. Thus you can reason from logical viewpoints and receive a degree of truth you could not in any other way attain.

The cosmic workings of Nature are based upon a given Law or Truth. Truth is the everlasting rock of ages upon which the foundations of all life are built. It is the essence of the everlasting GOD. As thought emanates from its various sources in life, so truth emanates from the Divine Father of All Life.

Truth marks the shadows where the erring stop to rest and points the path to an eternal life of joy, peace and comfort. As the shadows fall upon the pathway of life and the clouds hide the sun at noonday, Truth marks the way for the morning's dawn and crowns the effort with joy.

Truth is eternal, as God is eternal.

As you go forward in the progressions of life your footprints are left in the sands of time, for the guidance of others through the many changes in life's history.

Truth knocks at the door of the unprejudiced and calls to the unselfish, beckons to the pure in heart and reveals its beauty in Nature. The unerring truth in Nature teaches you the way you should go and this Intelligence will lead you unerringly.

As the fields ripen in their season and the flowers bloom within their month, so the sun, moon and stars keep their relative positions within the firmament.

God's laws are unerring. God's laws are just. God's laws are truth. Who shall say the laws of God are unjust? Who shall say the law of God changeth? Who shall say the laws of God emanate from a changeable intelligence?

Reason points out the treacherous paths of a self-ordained creed or doctrine and directs the ways of intelligence in Nature's path of law and truth.

Why Nature's paths? From Nature all is that is. 

In the present chaos of your existence you being a part of Nature you are led by the footprints in Nature's fields. When you travel through the various lands you mark the contrasts in the various forms of Nature, which you meet on your journey, just the same, as reason encounters the various marks of time upon your mental status. Within the hand of every traveller or explorer, the compass is a constant companion and guide, so do the unerring laws of Nature point the ways of life.

You may gather shells upon the sea shore and scatter them upon the pathway of life, even unto your home.

You may gather the lilies of the field and bedeck your path with their fragrance, but ere the sun has set, the lilies have lost their freshness and the shell its place upon the barren fields of waste. 

The true forms of life are the reflections of the one life.

The true worth of your character is this expression in your material actions. The rich and the poor dwell in the same house together, true to the master of that house, reflecting their lives in their respective spheres.

The true character of a life is exemplified in the actions of the form and reflects the true principles of an inner consciousness by their actions among men.

The judgment of men availeth nothing in man's restoration—neither can man's judgment lead men into the avenues of a useful reality—nor can man's judgment set the principles of Nature to his own liking, but ere the race is run, acknowledgment should come for the guidance of man. It is useless to recommend any given law whereby you can attain the high degree, which you should strive to attain because of the different environments under which you live.

The one law would not suffice for all, for each one moves and acts within his own domain of action. But it is safe to say if each and everyone would strive to attain a certain degree of enlightenment, which would heighten his spiritual being, he would ere long achieve a recognisable perception of a perfect way that would mould his life into a perfect accord with the Laws of nature.

In all the scope of your mental attainment, there is none staple, save one—the Law of Retribution and Compensation. By this law all mental calibres are harmonised and moulded, pouring out their own essences upon life forces, which bring into action the highest forms of endeavour.

Without the Law of Retribution and Compensation all forms of life would be blasted into fragments from which no truth could ever come.

To safeguard the welfare of all peoples, living in the different climes of the world, there are laws pre-eminent in which all truth abound, and from these laws all forces are held at the command of Nature.

All celestial and terrestrial forces are in abeyance to this great true life and power. The progressive elements of your sphere only emphasise the truth of this assertion.

You then come to an all important truth that all life is an offspring of the one great life—the source of all forms both of spirit and of matter.

A Study in Spirit Wisdom