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<strong>CHAPTER</strong> 2 12<br />
The great scientists of Columbus' time were no less great because they believed Columbus to be a fanatic for<br />
thinking the Earth was round. The mistakes of yesterday or today only point the way to the greater truth of<br />
tomorrow; with each new discovery we gain a greater comprehension of the whole.<br />
Everything changes, but change itself. Let that change come; the Earth has been waiting a long, long time!<br />
Four thousand years ago, Job asked: "If a man die, shall he live again?" This question has been repeated in<br />
vain by every generation of men who have since inhabited the Earth. Now, space intelligences bring proof of<br />
life everlasting, and eternal progression.<br />
In Conquest Of Fear, Basil King gives us a view of the future world when he says: "Taking Jesus as our<br />
standard we shall work out, I venture to think, to the following points of progress:<br />
"The control of matter in furnishing ourselves with food and drink by means more direct than at present<br />
employed, as He turned water into wine and fed the multitudes with the loaves and fishes.<br />
"The control of matter by putting away from ourselves, by methods more sure and less roundabout than those<br />
of today, sickness, blindness, infirmity and deformity.<br />
"The control of matter by regulating our atmospheric conditions as He stilled the tempest.<br />
"The control of matter by restoring to this phase of existence those who have passed out of it before their time,<br />
or who can ill be spared from it, as He 'raised' three young people from 'the dead' and Peter and Paul followed<br />
His example.<br />
"The control of matter in putting it off and on at will, as He in His death and resurrection.<br />
"The control of matter in passing altogether out of it, as He in what we call His Ascension into Heaven.<br />
Yes, it is true that "God Provided--Man Divided", but man on Earth must go back to the whole which the<br />
Creator made manifest unto His creation. Remember the words of Paul: "O Timothy, keep that which is<br />
committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called." (I<br />
Timothy 6:20).<br />
The Truth alone shall make man free, and as Bacon said: 'Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."<br />
<strong>CHAPTER</strong> 2<br />
THE GRAND MAN<br />
In the Universe of infinite entities and infinite variety, Man is found manifesting in many degrees from<br />
Microcosm to Macrocosm. In the theory of Paracelsus, the Microcosm was man, as if combining in himself all<br />
the elements of the Macrocosm or great world. This theory in turn reminds us of Swedenborg who spoke and<br />
wrote so often about the Creator as The Grand Man of the Omniverse containing all the elements of the<br />
Microcosmic world. From the smallest unit of Creation to the most gigantic, there is a spiraling, circular<br />
progression. Early explorers went West to get East; and so in the Microcosmic world lies the answer to what<br />
the Macrocosmos is like.<br />
Darwin said: "An organic being is a Microcosm, a little Universe, formed of a host of self-propagating<br />
organisms, inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars in heaven."<br />
A. Bronson Alcott, in 1877 said: "Matter in particle and planet, mind and macrocosm, is quick with spirit."