Descrizione:
There is a light that has been coming from afar ever since the dawn of human thought. It has embodied itself in philosophy. It has mirrored itself in religion; it has been heard as the march of scientific progress. Above all, it is witnessed as "the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night" guiding the destinies of man in the great evolutionary struggle — leading him on to the Great Goal of life, — the development and full intensity of the spiritual consciousness. Heretofore, science has been conflicting with religion; heretofore, religion and philosophy have often differed, but the onward progress of life itself has made so many wonderful revelations that today we stand in the presence of the Source of all Light, — the Soul. The object herewith set forth is to prove that underlying all thought, all philosophy, all science, all religion, all life, is the unit reality which all these have attempted to interpret, but have clashed in the attempt. All of these have made great and warring distinctions over externals, losing sight of the inner reality they have desired to discover. Hereafter, they will be united. Science and philosophy will support religion; religion will be recognized as one of the great moods of life. And the standard of life itself will be raised from the bounds of the struggle for physical existence solely to the plane of the manifestation of the Soul. On the groundwork of philosophy and science, we must rear the great structure of the spiritual consciousness with religion and the spiritual life as its crowning points. The faith of the child in soul gives way before the larger consciousness of the man of spiritual knowledge, and this knowledge, eventually, gives way before the great realization of the sage. The philosopher is only the child; the real sage is the Seer of Truth. Man graduates from lesser to greater knowledge; as the perspective of life widens, a larger and better vision is secured of That Truth and Sentiency which manifest as life. When the Reality has once been seen, then all distinctions vanish; then it is realized that the goal of all paths is the same, and that science and philosophy, religion and social experience are all phases of life which, when fully developed, lead the seeker into the Ocean of the Soul. |
