Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... of outward manifestation. In the great evolutionary scale, every grade and quality of life organizes itself in just such an embodiment as exactly corresponds to its nature. The tiger-life builds the tiger-form, and so with all other kinds of life, man being no exception. Life--organized mind--is ever carving its own statuesque correspondences, true to the unseen model. Mind, in its modelling, follows not only species, but also quality to the utmost detail. Beauty, ugliness, symmetry, and distortion are alike placed upon pedestals by their immutable sculptors. But practically, though to some extent unconsciously, mind has been degraded by pseudo-science to a property or function of matter. Theology, therapeutics, sociology, and ethics have also been greatly obscured by the thick dust of materialism. But at last science is coming to a late and forced conclusion that the so-called properties of matter are only sensuous limitations. They are simply provisional and educational, for matter plays an important part as a foil in soul-development. Man, as a soul, should affirm his rule and dominion over his body as distinctly as over any other machine he uses. He should gain a positive sense that his physique is not himself, but rather his most obedient servant. As a spiritual ego he should also disconnect himself, in consciousness, from his lower or sensuous mind, while intuitively asserting his supremacy over it, and also over intellect and memory. As he rises above all inferiors, they lose their tyrannous dispositions and drop into beautiful ministry and subordination. New recuperative energy can come into the human organism only through mind, but if this statement were limited to conscious mind, it would be wide of the mark-Only a small fraction of...