Let the capitalist and monopolist, the savages of society, answer

There are thousands of poor in our cities. How came they poor? Let the capitalist and monopolist, the savages of society, answer.

Let our words and deeds be consistent!

Let our words and deeds be consistent!

Charity is the basis of greatness

We stand forever in the presence of Jehovah. He is our teacher; all our mentality and morality are absorbed from Him. Act true to those attributes and be charitable – 

Charity is the basis of greatness.

Nature is all that remains to bring to light those laws which reveal the hidden ways of the Omnipotent mind

Nature is all that remains for our study to bring to light those laws which reveal the hidden ways of the Omnipotent mind.

True devotion to Deity is the obedience of all the laws of His nature

True devotion to Deity, of the developed mind, is the obedience of all the laws of His nature.

You must not compare Him with man in this way

Preconceived opinions and tradition exercise great influence over the mind and, although fully convinced that the Deity is an intelligent principle, our thoughts will personify Him in the imagination. Reason alone can set the matter right. So soon as you personify and give God a shape, you circumscribe his limits and power. So soon as you measure him by man, in power or shape, and thus bring him down to finite comprehension, you make him a finite personage.

The finite cannot comprehend the Infinite!

What and where is God?

What and where is God?

Untutored child of Nature, from whence hast thou derived so much truth!

For a moment, free thought broke through the clouds which hung over his mind and Nature spoke through him – 

Behold, said he, these sands are bordered with plants. They grow and give me sustenance. In their growth I behold life and wisdom and, in proportion as my mind expands, I behold intelligence. Look abroad over this waste. See yonder moving pillar of sand. God has moved his breath to do his bidding. I feel his presence in the broad sunshine and in the serene night. The stars reflecting the dim sliadows of the waste remind me that he is far off, yet near.

View the mighty forest, the birds caroling in the branches. I hear his voice mingling with the wail of the spirits of my fathers in the breeze. In the echo of the thunder he speaks to me. Where is he? You are now in his presence. He is ever-speaking to you, for he dwells in everything and is everywhere.

The Sage

Nature is a whole and should be studied as such

Draw a circle about you today and tomorrow's circle will encompass it. The growth of the soul is like the growth of the tree, by consecutive circles, each new growth encompassing all the rest. The soul is exogenous and endogenous in its growth; it grows not only from within but also from without. Each age draws its circle around all those which are past. You may think cohesive attraction a great force – its sphere comprehensive – yet gravitation draws its circle around attraction and a thousand forces beside and gravitation itself is far from a final cause. Some giant mind will, in the distant future, stretch forth his hand and describe a circle which will include gravitation and all its antagonistic forces. You must learn to comprehend great principles and classify facts. By observing isolated instances, you loose the connection and become confused. Nature is a whole and should be studied as such.

Scenes in the Spirit World or Life in the Spheres

Man is the unfolding flower of Nature

Man is the bud, the spirit, the unfolding flower of Nature, which will go on unfolding its powers until it reaches the throne of the Omnipotent Mind.

Affirmation – 

I will reach the standard of perfection You have set for me if it takes all my life in heaven and all the help from the angels of light to accomplish it. 

Man is the bud, which will go on unfolding its powers until it reaches the throne of the Omnipotent Mind

The perfected spirit is the end of creative Nature. For it, the gaseous ocean of the beginning existed; for it, the igneous ball rolled through the vast space for ages; for it, one form of life after another came, type following type, and degree succeeding degree in endless mutations. Man is the bud, the spirit, the unfolding flower of Nature, which will go on unfolding its powers until it reaches the throne of the Omnipotent Mind.

Remember that our life-journey is not for today but for eternity

Remember that our life-journey is not for today but for eternity.

Man is an animalcule on the earth

You look on the earth as a huge ball but, when standing far away on the fixed stars, the whole solar system, the sun, planets, satellites and eomets, appear not as large as the mite in the sunbeams! You look on man as the ultimate of creation; yet there are angels beside whom he would appear far more insignificant than the Patagonian savage beside the intelligent European philosopher. Man is an animalcule on the earth, which is itself but an atom of the universe. There is a vast void between the animalcule in the drop of water and a solar system; yet a greater difference exists between the wisdom of man and the Infinite Wisdom beyond.

Scenes in the Spirit World or Life in the Spheres

I am almost at the end of the race for wisdom

I am almost at the end of the race for wisdom. Foolish thought, when the wisdom of the Infinite God is all beyond.

Scenes in the Spirit World or Life in the Spheres

Earth is the infant school to prepare the mind for the college of eternity

Earth is the infant school to prepare the mind for the college of eternity.

My spirit revels with the infinite hosts of heaven

Affirmation – 

My spirit revels with the infinite hosts of heaven.

Never let the thought of how others regard you enter your mind again

Never let the thought of how others regard you enter your mind again. Blot it out by thinking how angels regard you.

We have a great lesson to learn

We have a great lesson to learn and that is charity for our brethren and regard for their feelings.

Every human heart has a diamond

Beneath the rubbish and conventionalisms which conceal it, every human heart has a diamond. Circumstances may dim or entirely obliterate its light; yet, sooner or later, it will break through all obstacles and shine in immortal brightness.

The Sage

Gratitude will cause the tear to flow and the heart to palpitate sooner than the other emotions

Gratitude will cause the tear to flow and the heart to palpitate sooner than the other emotions.

The Sage

Affections set the mind on the plane of angels

Affections set the mind on the plane of angels and throw a halo of radiance around the human soul.

The Sage