Publisher's Synopsis
From the introductory chapter:
GOD is a great Universal intelligence, manifesting in all things seen and unseen. There is only one thing in existence, -- God. -- "As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be."
God manifests as consciousness, force and substance or intelligence, action and form. Form is God consciousness expressed, differentiated, diversified, -- the formless is God consciousness in form so high that it does not reveal as form to the human intelligence.
There is only the One Life in all and through all and this One Life manifests in its own way from atom to man.
The old civilization declared, "there is no life or intelligence in matter" -- the new world says there is nothing in this world or all the worlds to come, but intelligence in some form: material at any place is only the physical side of the Divine consciousness.
All matter is radiantly alive with Cosmic intelligence -- it is in mineral, vegetable, animal and man. Every grain of sand, every leaf, tree, plant, flower, bird or beast stands forth a resplendent point of intelligence, force and substance. From the very rim of matter to the very center of the Cosmic Life each atom links itself with its own, forming a continuous stream of intelligence which links kingdoms, worlds, spheres and dominions into one great whole. This is not Pantheism -- this is the truth Spinoza tried to teach to his blinded age: it is the glory and greatness and majesty of God in the world which he projected from himself, but they, interpreting to fit their own unfoldment, lost the centralized point of consciousness and became followers of the diversified intelligence and form. The great atomic mind of substance became detached and divorced from its source and God was swallowed in diversity.
The New Civilization calls the race mind back to the center and while it still maintains its Cosmic consciousness in the atom and the atomic forms of matter, it links these with its center, and infinity and diversity become one.
