The Beauty of the Spiritual Side of Life

It is significant that we talk nowadays of the occult. Occult and psychic activities there are in abundance; our life is made up of them, influencing our environment and conditions and relationship, man to man, and to the world-thought as well. Conceive then that the earth is enwrapped in this blanket of the world-thought, encompassing us as does the atmospheric sea; that we are projected into this psychic sea as we are born into the aerial expanse. Its elements are largely belief, tradition, custom in a word, ignorance. And the natural man for a time breathes in these elements, knowing nothing better. As a consequence his spiritual life is insufficiently nourished and he becomes a creature of strange beliefs and abnormal tendencies, having little, if any, knowledge of his true estate. Thus he considers himself a material being, nor is aware of the absurdity and pathos of such an hypothesis.

He creates material laws, and for lack of insight or humour, or both, imagines himself subject to them; unaware at the same time of the spiritual law to which he is subject and in obedience to which he must ultimately obtain freedom. He is projected then into this psychic sea of ignorance in which he goes woolgathering, and breathes in the lifeless musty thought which his fellows have inspired and respired since the days of Cheops a very little ozone and a superabundance of carbonic acid. No wonder a spiritual lethargy ensues, that he takes this to be his natural food and conceives himself to be some strange sort of fish made to digest these things and to gaze around him with dull, fishy eyes; or that some are occasionally taken with mad desire to get out of their carbonic, stifling sea, and reasoning from false and flabby hypotheses, jump wildly out and flounder pitifully on some unknown and inhospitable shore, to lie gasping at last, the poor fishy eyes staring hopelessly into the unknown.

Ah, pitiful indeed ! And yet the tern and kittiwake are soaring overhead on easy wing. The most fatal poison the most benumbing tradition in our psychic sea, is the false concept of life, the belief that life is several, divided and disconnected, subject to a different law at one period than at another, susceptible of different aims, or with a different purpose. We mistake our false concept of life for life itself. What we need most is light on the present. 'it will be easy consorting with angels, but how to live in harmonious and true relations with these our fellows! Whatsoever outward conditions may seem to impose themselves upon us in our subsequent wanderings in the unknown, life must ever remain spiritual and hence moral in its purport. A relation we shall always have with the Infinite: from thence we shall ever have our life, from thence derive our inspiration. A relation, too, we shall always have with mankind, or angel kind if such it become, a relation to which the present offers analogies; a divine association, or a senseless, selfish, babbling intercourse, fraught with pain and in harmony divine ministry in themselves, urging to something truer, nobler, diviner.

If I choose I may make my intercourse with men spiritual now, but I would fain postpone it until we have been buried as though that would further it. A relation again must obtain between the soul and whatever form it may invest itself with in its further manifestation ; and the conditions of this outer must ever depend upon the inner. It is plain we shall reach no heaven where happiness is not conditioned by wisdom. Whether on Mars or in the moon, self-seeking must bear thistles and self-renunciation the fairest fruit. Lessons learned here must be good for all times; truth is the same here as there.

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