CHAPTER VIIDeath

“The thing that I feared hath come upon me.”—Job.

Through fear the human race has been converted into cowards and slaves.

In a former chapter we have suggested the origin or birth of this demon with its subsequent evolution of the ideas of good and evil, rewards and punishments, religions, right and wrong, etc.—Side by side with the above was the evolution of the conscience, which in turn became the greatest producer of fear known to the human race. The conscience, that Shakespeare says “doth make cowards of us all.” A modern teacher says “Conscience is the jaw of morality. It has spread far outside the Christian or any other religion and become an essential factor of modern civilization. Conscience is the most depressing element in human existence. Its entire business is to reduce spirit. Every inch of its energy is laid out against health. It taxes vitality. It claws with shame. It bites with disgrace. It murders with morbidness, both body and mind. It manufactures right and wrong. It dischargespoison or stimulant into the blood and nerves. … It has scared the race into trembling lest it leave them. It has made cowards of us all.”

In man’s effort to escape the thralldom of these twin curses,—fear and conscience—which so often drives humanity to self-destruction or loss of reason, and feeling his helplessness against these demons, he sought a means of propitiating them, and so constructed a system of religious belief. Believing that his Gods must be placated for his fancied transgressions, a form of worship was evolved, with ceremonies involving sacrifice of blood, gifts of money, and treasure for building magnificent temples, churches, abbeys and monasteries. Lavishing billions of dollars upon their architecture and art. All these were efforts to overcome fear, and appease a conscience, which was evolved through the influence of the shadow-world and the folk-lore of primitive man upon the progenitors of the race.

We have only to vibrate the unused cells of the brain to bring forth primitive savagery. Take the action of a mob—let a vibratory wave of passion be set up in the unused cells of the brain and the entity knows no law but primitive force. Fear is for the time forgotten in the lust for blood. This is the explanation of the so-called bravery of the soldier in time of battle. Although fear dominates him beforethe clash of arms is reached, yet the moment he meets his antagonist the primitive lust for blood overcomes his fear and he becomes once more a primeval savage and fights to the death. The rationale of this is, that environment and mode of thought has put in vibration and attuned certain cells of the brain, by which he establishes communication with some reservoir of primitive savage vibration in the universe, and all the wild impulses of primeval instinct rush into and dominate him.

The forgotten “vices” of our ancestors, apparently repeated from generation to generation, mean no more than this, as we have suggested heretofore; environment and its engendered mode of thought simply fitting the brain as a receiver for the reception of specific vibrations. We treat as criminals those who should be really treated for disease. We are responsible for the slum conditions in our cities and country which set up the brain attunement that calls forth these vibrations of ancestral vices. This is HOW the slums breed vice and crime. And it is in this direction we should put forth our efforts to reform the criminal. Are we not responsible for our criminals? We most assuredly are. We are responsible for these slum conditions and environments which create and bring into play these specific brain cells and cell vibrations. We say “Natural born criminals.” Not always. They are madeso by environment. If the money spent in the effort to reform the vicious and criminal was applied to cleansing the slums and changing man’s environment, it would greatly reduce the necessity for jails, reform schools and asylums. We should enact laws to enable us to begin with the child in the public schools—compulsory if necessary. Not only educating, but seeing that they were properly clothed and housed and fed, and removed from their vicious surroundings, parents or guardians. In fact, we are the real criminals who permit such a thing as a crime producing slum or a “poor quarter.” The state can easily afford to do this in order to do away with the so-called vicious element or criminal class.

The present progress of invention in labor-saving devices call for a greater intelligence than the handling of the pick and the shovel, and this is being evolved; and this great living vibratory energy or force which created man and evolved his intellect and his will, man has in turn harnessed for his use, reducing the necessity for excessive manual labor; and he will have more time for the arts and sciences. The “man with the hoe,” will become the man with the electric plow and cultivator, and instead of hard, laborious work, these wonderful electric inventions will eventually reduce all labor to mild recreation and enjoyment. This wonderful electric force has now become aservant and is willing and eager to give its restless energy to man. It is the power that Tennyson says is “closer to you than breathing, nearer than hands and feet.” It is your universal father ready to give whatsoever you ask; but man must study to know this power, and learn its natural movements in order to come into the full benefit of his rightful heritage of this primal force by which he was evolved into conscious existence.

The blight of fear has retarded the human race from coming into its heritage of knowledge concerning this primal substance and force of the universe—Electricity. Every effort of science to explain phenomena has been frowned upon and opposed by theology, which is the child of fear and conscience. Man has been kept in swaddling clothes which have prevented his growth to maturity. But thanks to the change of nurses during the recent centuries his clothes have been changed so frequently that he has had an opportunity to grow lusty, and all the efforts of nurses to keep him in leading-strings today are unavailing. He is outgrowing fear and superstition that has so long strangled science. And science is destroying fear by its revelations of the workings of natural law, which in the field of electrical discovery is making its most rapid strides.

Its Relation to Life. Its Immortality. Its loving purpose. Its Relation to Evolution.

“To die, to sleep,—To sleep! perchance to dream! ay there’s the rub.”—Shakespeare.

In preceding chapters I have so frequently made the statement that life and death are one and the same, that it seems almost superfluous to say another word on the subject. But I am willing, even at the risk of seeming pedantic, to re-state the argument, which is not only simple and easy of comprehension, but at the same time both scientific and rational.

Without desiring to enter upon the realm of metaphysics in this book, it will be sufficient to say that we use the term Life in its fullest sense, and not in the restricted one of consciousness. Consciousness itself being but one expression of life.

Two Irishmen walking along a road came upon a turtle. It had been decapitated and its head lay some distance away from its body. “Begorra,” says Pat, “he’s dead sure enough. His head’s cut off.” Mike picked up a stick and punched the turtle’s feet, who immediately withdrew them inside his shell. “No,” says he, “he’s aloive. See him move.” “You’re a foolMike,” says Pat. “He’s dead I tell you. Don’t you see his head’s cut off.” “He’s aloive,” said Mike, “you can see him move.” The argument became heated, Mike insisting that a dead turtle couldn’t move, and Pat being equally insistent that no turtle with his head cut off could be alive. The matter was about to be referred to the Irishman’s court of last resort, when a Dutchman, passing along, an armistice was established, and the matter referred to him for decision. The Dutchman examined the turtle and discovered it had been killed in a supposedly most effective manner by having its head cut off. Mike’s test with the stick, however, revealed the ability on the part of the turtle for pretty lively activity. He then arose and delivered himself, “Gentlemen, dot turtle iss dead all right,—but it don’t know it.”

Every area of being,—of the universe, is eternally alive. It doesn’t always KNOW it.

We repeat, there is one—can be but one—Be-ing. This being is not mind, nor its product matter. Ether is only a refined form of matter. Mind is adjudged to be a still more refined form of that same matter. But being is Substance. You may call it Spirit (or meaning) or you may call it God. Paul called it Faith, and said “by it and of it the worlds were made.”

We call it Electricity. Every infinitesimalelectron of this substance, as we have stated, is by-polar or sexual. Attracting and repelling, embracing and separating. This eternal, inherent or natural law of their being is Life,—energy, activity. The resultant of these activities:—the worlds and all that in them is.

Suppose a great mass of type moved by an inherent, automatic, continuous impulse. Its integral component letters forever arranging themselves into words, phrases, sentences, etc. For illustration: The letters E-V-I-L create the word Evil. Rearrange the same letters and your word Evil disappears and the word L-I-V-E, Live, appears, or is born, created, evolved, whatever. The energy, the auto-activity would be one and the same. The disintegration and disappearance of one word, and the re-adjustment of letters and appearance or creation of another word being equally the resultant of the same letters, with their same inherent energy and impulse. You might call one part of the process Creation and another part Destruction, but the process is one and continuous. Your division is merely hypothetical, or assumed. What is destroyed? The letters remain, and their inherent energy or impulse remains—all there was at any time.

The integral, component particles—electrons—of the one only eternal substance, are the letters comprising the universe. Their inherent,automatic, eternal energy, activity—Life—forever spelling out words and sentences, etc., that go to make up the Book of Life. They arrange themselves as earthquake or pestilence, famine, murder, birth, disease, old age, death, sunshine, flowers, music, painting, sculpture, art, laughter, tears, whatever. What are these terms but names for the varied activities of life? Life is all there is. What is called death is equally life. Life and death are the two impulses of this one universal force.

In certain of its phenomena, now classified as electrical, this dual impulse is noted and its action is called “closing the circuit” and “breaking the circuit.” This same dual impulse or tendency to embrace and separate—embrace and separate—obtains throughout the entire cosmos, proving the universality of electrical action. Ether, fire, air, water, earth, sound, sensation, light, form, color, smell, food, thought are all known to be modes of motion—rates of vibration. Motion of what? Rate of vibration of what?—Of the infinite, integral, component electrons of the one universal substance.

All movement, or action, or impulse, is in a straight line, and in a circle. The movement in a straight line is the repulsion, the departure, the separation. Motion in a circle is the attraction, the return, the embrace. This is polarity. This is sex. This is Eternal Life.This is Eternal Death. The Two Immortals—or the One (bi-polar, bi-sexual) Immortal.

We repeat, all the substance there is is Electricity. All the force there is, therefore, is electrical. There being but one substance—synthetic being—all force must be electrical. This electrical force is a unit, but has two impulses, positive and negative, attraction and repulsion.

All organic forms contains these impulses. For illustration, take a human entity. The positive we call man, the negative woman. Through the embrace of certain electrons thrown off from the organism of each (physiologically termed the spermatozoa of the male and the fecundating fluid of the female), there is established the basis of a future organism for manifesting consciousness and conscious or intelligent activity. A journey is begun. Life and death are one and move side by side. Their eternal impulse ever active. If what is called harmony or health prevails a vigorous entity is evolved and continued. When the negative tendency or inharmony prevails in this continued struggle for supremacy, beyond a certain limit, the organism becomes de-harmonized, dis-eased, disabled, unconscious, disintegrated. Such is this restless energy we call life. The circuit completed, life and death (the positive and negative impulse), move together side by side, but the tendency to break the circuit—aswell as to close the circuit—always obtains. When this occurs there is a re-adjustment of conditions, out of which new forms of life appear.

There can be no antagonism in a unit. There is only a restless energy and impulse to effect changes; to continue the work of creation or evolution. I want my readers to recognize death as a friend, and not as so many regard him, an enemy. He has been and is our constant companion—he is ourself, and is entitled to fuller and kinder recognition. We scandalize death and caricature and abuse him, not realizing that we are abusing ourselves. When the tired organism craves only rest, how readily we should welcome his loving embrace. We cannot love life without loving death, as they are one and inseparable, being the unit—which is all there is. What is true of this ceaseless energy or electrical impulse as manifested in organic forms, is also true in inorganic forms. It generates all vegetables, and fruits and flowers, giving them beauty and fragrance and flavor. And we note the same spherical growth in all, demonstrating the electrical nature of all creation. Each cell is rotated into form by this dual impulse. We see the same spherical formation in our forests.

The same “dissolution” or change takes place in in-organic as in organic life. As the “speck”or decayed spot appears on the apple we know the circuit has been broken and the negative tendency becoming the stronger. Everywhere, everything is the circle, and everywhere the tendency to break that circle or circuit. In the celestial bodies called worlds, it is the same as in the flower. Astronomers agree that there is an ultimate limit to the so-called “life” of all planetary bodies. This is true. They have been evolved and devolved for aeons and aeons of time. And the eternal electrical impulse and energy will continue its sport of creation and of destruction throughout the ages yet to be.

Life is. Without beginning—without duration—without ending. Such is the meaning of the word Eternity.

Mental Therapeutics or Healing Suggestions. Christian Science. Mental Science. Faith Healing, Etc.

As stated in a former chapter, every system of so-called mental healing being practiced in these States or elsewhere today, whether it calls itself Christian Science, Mental Science, Divine Healing, New Thought, Suggestive Therapeutics, or whatever, is but an effort—with more or less understanding—to utilize the law of electric vibration.

Mrs. Eddy says in “Science and Health,” page 292, “Electricity is not a vital fluid, but the least material form of illusive consciousness.” “Electricity is the sharp surplus of materiality which counterfeits the true essence of spiritual truth.” (So simple, isn’t it?) “The vapid fury of mortal mind expressed in earthquakes, wind, waves, lightning, fire and bestial ferocity shows the so-called mind to be self-destructive.”

There is one synthetical substance, or truth, in the universe. You may name it to suit yourself. It will smell just as sweet and act just the same under whatever name you may give it. It has a habit of remaining just what it is yesterday, today and forever. We call itElectricity. It is the one mind, the one substance, the all and in all. From it is evolved matter in all its various forms. The unit of all force is electrical; the two impulses of which account for the variety of forms in which it manifests itself. It creates, preserves, destroys, and the various manifestations, such as earthquake, floods, fire, lightening are but results of these two impulses, and simply show the absence of any intelligent PURPOSE whatever; and forces us to see that there can be no such thing as a Supreme Being—or supreme intelligence in the universe. That this great omnipresent energy which evolved the meaningless phrases and sentences of Mrs. Eddy’s “Christian Science” was acting neither less nor more “intelligently” than when it produced a Beethoven sonata or a Dante’s Inferno.

Man seems to have been able to a certain extent to control this force and harness it to his use, and has materially lessened its destructive tendency by devices such as the lightening-rod and various insulating methods. This is an evidence of intelligent purpose evolved by the vibratory forces of this intelligent substance.

Man has subjected this force to his usage upon his own organism and the results are astounding. Every day some new application is being made. In the field of Electro-Therapeuticsthere are so many new developments, so many wondrous actions on various diseases that the medical profession has to constantly revise its text books, in order to keep step with this stately energy that is marching on to disclose to those attuned to receive them the great secrets of nature.

We have the phonograph, which deposits the vibrations of the human voice—or any other vibration, upon the wax cylinder, which can be preserved almost indefinitely and reproduced at will. From whence came the vibratory impulse or suggestion that invented the phonograph? The within is as the without. The above is as the below. The macrocosm is as the microcosm. Is there not in the laboratory of the universe some cyclical or cylindrical formation (as all electric force—which is all the force there is—is spherical) that receives, and preserves, and reproduces the impressions of all thoughts, words and deeds, the brain specifically attuned receiving its specific vibration, or thought? Does it require any great effort to grasp the thought that the electrical (mental, thought) forces or vibrations of the universe can be utilized by us, to act on the cells of the brain and convey to the body or its various organs through the nerves, our commands to cast out all inharmonious vibration, and to refuse to entertain any but harmonious or healthful suggestions.“Whatsoever a man thinketh, he is.” We repeat, these so-called healthful vibrations are as free to all as the air they breathe and cannot be corralled by any set of healers. This is not said to discredit any system of healing, for all are with more or less understanding using the same principle, and with accordingly varying degrees of success. But it is said to destroy and nullify any claim of exclusive ability.

To attune yourself to receive these health-giving or harmony-producing vibrations be alone. Assume any comfortable position. Let the body relax and the mind become passive. All speech is electrical in its vibratory action. Use these words:

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD.

You may be afraid at first to say these words. This is all the more reason why you should say them. There is nothing so de-harmonizing and de-vitalizing as fear. Read the chapter in this book on “Fear” again, and cast it out of you forever.

Listen—no person ever died saying, “Be Still and Know That I Am God.”

The repetition of these words will gradually attune the brain to receive the most health-giving, vitalizing vibrations in the universe. These, acting on the cells of the brain are conveyed throughout the entire body by the nerves. The lungs, the liver, the stomach—all—willgradually receive these vitalizing, curative thought vibrations, and respond to them.

Sometimes these inharmonious conditions seem persistent and hard to overcome, and patience and perseverance in repetition may be necessary. But persevere and you cannot fail to win out. It is as certain as that friction will produce fire, and that heat will dissolve ice. Don’t whine. Don’t beg. Don’t pray. Command, as is your right and privilege, as a unit of this mighty electric force which is life and health. It’s up to you. All the life and health of the universe is yours if you will. Permanent, abiding, continuous attunement to the infinite ocean of force, is to continue the integrity of the organism you call your—Self.

Note.—The discovery of radium opened up a field of experiment and investigation that has greatly confirmed in the scientific mind the belief that all action is electrical and that in this direction will be found the solution of all biological problems.

It is now thought by scientists that radium is the source of life, if not the so-called AURA of life itself. If this were true, it would only mean that radium is the fundamental, basic, primeval substance of the universe, which wehave termed Electricity. … It is known to be electrical in its action, giving off light, heat and radiant energy. It seems to be self-existent, or self-renewing, suffering no apparent diminution of its force or energy.

One thing is certain, Electricity is Life, and in the eternally inherent, automatic impulse of its individual electrons will be found the solution of all phenomena. In radium or radioactivity science may be getting down to “bed-rock.” At any rate, it is hot on the trail that will lead to the discovery of the truth we are announcing, viz.: that there is but one substance—Electricity, whose eternal, infinite expression is Life.

In the foregoing chapters I have endeavored to explain the great primeval force of life—Electricity. The task is an almost impossible one, for, while I know that my premises and deductions are correct, it is more than difficult by words and phrases and sentences to convey to the reader my deep conviction of the correctness of the theory introduced in these pages.

Some of the greatest scientists in the world are experimenting with this vital force, and almost daily the newspapers contain accounts of the phenomenal results that are attending their efforts.

Recently in Copenhagen a certain journalist had his portrait “photographed by electricity.” Copies were distributed throughout the city he was about to visit with instructions that he be arrested on sight. This was effected immediately upon his arrival there.

An important recent discovery is an electric lamp which can dissipate fog. It produces a dear, greenish, penetrating light like moonlight. It gives a great illuminating power without heat something like the X-ray.

Recently, aerograms were received in Honolulu and San Francisco from Japan, provingthat the ethereal electrons are sure conductors throughout the cosmos. Entering, as this untiring energy does, into our every day life, it is not difficult for us to see that—Life is—and that Electricity is the only substance, out of whose revelations we are growing into greater understanding of the forces and workings of nature. These forces—variations and modifications of the one force—Electrical energy—have ever BEEN; but it has taken millions of ages and the evolution and development of man’s intelligence to even grasp the A, B, C of this almighty power. The future has in store discoveries of such magnitude and of such vast importance to the human race in this field of electrical phenomena that we may well exclaim, as did the psalmist, “such knowledge is too wonderful for me, it is high, I cannot attain unto it.”

All natural law is but some form of electrical energy by which is evolved all the various manifestations of this wonder-working substance. Atmospheres, ether, air, fire, water, earth, stars, planets, suns, worlds, man, are but combinations and vibrations of the integral particles or electrons of this one substance. Mountain and star-mist, consciousness, intelligence, savage, Sage, Sufi, all objective and subjective (organic and inorganic) entities, are but the infinite manifestations of this universal substance.

The X-ray is but an intense display produced by the vibration of trillions of these electrons. All that is called mind and all that is called matter, is but an expression of this one universal substance. In its eternal restless energy it creates, preserves, destroys, innumerable forms of mind and matter. This is eternal life. This is eternal intelligence. And “Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night showeth knowledge.”

A recent author on “Individualism and the vibratory energy” says, “Spirit and matter are one and the same vibratory force; and mind and matter are one and not distinct substances.”

Since commencing to write these lines the author has found a number of writers whose works have been of great help to him, and served to confirm him in his theory.

The attunement of the brain cells to varying rates of vibration in the universe, brings all things to you on the principle of the wireless telegraph. “All things are yours,” was the announcement of the Master of the Christian system. This is scientifically true. The universe is at your disposal and you can get it. Not through sorrow, and toil and labor, but in the same way that trees and flowers get it—inspirationally.

Telepathy, which is attracting wide-spread notice at the present time, is as scientific astelegraphy. Some of the greater scientists are investigating its claims through “spiritual mediums,” though there are few who accept the latter’s claims, as in such a field it would be impossible to prevent impostors from preying upon the ignorant and credulous. There are honest mediums. In fact, every human entity is a “medium,” receiving and transmitting, receiving and transmitting continually.

There are some so acutely attuned by environment and habit of thought, to the universe of thought, that they receive communications beyond their fellows. These are poets, artists, musicians, inventors, etc. The thoughts of Plato, Socrates, Krishma, Jesus, ARE today. You may know all they knew if you can attune yourself to such a rate of vibration as to establish the proper connection. This is a plain, every-day, scientific, matter-of-fact explanation of all modern “spiritualistic communications.” There should be no more mystery or superstition, or spiritual clap-trap about it than there is about wireless telegraphy.

There are persons who can readily attune themselves to the vibrations of another and “read the thoughts”—unconscious as well as conscious—of individuals composing an entire audience. With many this is easily accomplished through personal contact. Some years ago the writer of these pages was well acquainted with Washington Irving Bishop, thegreat “mind reader,” who since died, or was murdered by doctors in New York, who dissected his brain while he was in a cataleptic condition, they supposing him dead. One of his performances was to have some stranger take a bank-note, read the number on it and place it in a safe. During this time Bishop was at some distance away heavily blindfolded. When all was ready, he would take this man’s hand and after a short interval give the number on the bank-note, which was invariably found to be correct. I questioned him very closely on this performance, which I witnessed frequently. He said as soon as he placed his fingers on the wrist of the man who placed the note, the number would come to him without difficulty. He claimed that it was telepathy or clairvoyance. As a matter of fact, it was simply attunement to the mind of the man who knew the number, and, as in the action of the wireless telegraph, the two brains being similarly attuned, the message was sent and received. There are many today to whom this would be a mere kindergarten performance. You perhaps did not know that every time you shake hands you run the risk of giving away your inmost secrets. I am prepared to tell you that this is true. “There is nothing hidden but it shall be revealed, and there is nothing secret but it shall be made known.”

We receive impressions of impending disasterwhich we regard as “supernatural.” Once for all let me say there is nothing supernatural. A knowledge of this fact ought to cure you of your superstitions and destroy your fears. Light, sound, color, travel faster than letters or telegrams. The impending disaster vibrations often reach us long before the actual occurrence itself. Even as we see the flash of lightening, or the flash of the powder, before we hear the thunder or the report of the cannon.

All these things are but movements of the electrons of the universe, carrying out the natural law of their being, which is electrical impulse.

Prof. Dolbear says, “Molecules which are a combination of atoms, are known to have their constant state of vibrations and from this and the fact of their perfect transparency, they can no more be seen than the air. They are so minute, so restless, like atoms of hydrogen, that no one can hope to see them or learn their characteristic properties.”

Observation and study of the phenomena of electrical energy reveal to us the nature of that substance, which we are, and with which we have to do. The fundamental, inevitable, never-varying law of polarity—pushing and pulling—or positive and negative action. In creation, throughout all experience, this is seen. Land and sea, day and night, right andleft, up and down, sweet and sour, east and west, north and south, good and bad, right and wrong, man and woman, attraction and repulsion—the so-called “pairs of opposites”,—Sex everywhere. Is it difficult to see by analogy and deduction that polarity is universal. That all phenomena are electrical phenomena. That birth, and growth, disease and disaster, decline and death are all electrical phenomena, and that there is but one synthetic substance—ELECTRICITY.

[1]The germ, the embryo, the child,The foolish boy, the man,Are onward steps from nothingnessIn God’s progressive plan.Forever onward is the march—From beastly hoof to hand—From savage to the seer and sage—From Saurian types to man;From man to angel—limitlessAs are the starry spheres,Progression hath not halt nor boundIn God’s eternal years!From darkest cloud the lightning flash—From nothing—life Divine,From gloom to glory is the lawThe unvarying design.A world of good invites our eyesAnd charms the willing mind—But he who only misery findsBlasphemes the life Divine.The mountain side—the billowy seaOf waving prairie flowers,The gardens, glades, and spicy grovesAround this world of oursProclaim the endless festivalOf beauty,—and the truth—The deathless power of Love DivineEternal in its youth.

[1]The germ, the embryo, the child,The foolish boy, the man,Are onward steps from nothingnessIn God’s progressive plan.

[1]The germ, the embryo, the child,

The foolish boy, the man,

Are onward steps from nothingness

In God’s progressive plan.

Forever onward is the march—From beastly hoof to hand—From savage to the seer and sage—From Saurian types to man;From man to angel—limitlessAs are the starry spheres,Progression hath not halt nor boundIn God’s eternal years!

Forever onward is the march—

From beastly hoof to hand—

From savage to the seer and sage—

From Saurian types to man;

From man to angel—limitless

As are the starry spheres,

Progression hath not halt nor bound

In God’s eternal years!

From darkest cloud the lightning flash—From nothing—life Divine,From gloom to glory is the lawThe unvarying design.A world of good invites our eyesAnd charms the willing mind—But he who only misery findsBlasphemes the life Divine.

From darkest cloud the lightning flash—

From nothing—life Divine,

From gloom to glory is the law

The unvarying design.

A world of good invites our eyes

And charms the willing mind—

But he who only misery finds

Blasphemes the life Divine.

The mountain side—the billowy seaOf waving prairie flowers,The gardens, glades, and spicy grovesAround this world of oursProclaim the endless festivalOf beauty,—and the truth—The deathless power of Love DivineEternal in its youth.

The mountain side—the billowy sea

Of waving prairie flowers,

The gardens, glades, and spicy groves

Around this world of ours

Proclaim the endless festival

Of beauty,—and the truth—

The deathless power of Love Divine

Eternal in its youth.

[1]Arena.

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