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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."

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