Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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the man's veracity, and the power of belief, we could
the man's veracity, and the power of belief, we could
not doubt it.
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The evidence of one of the personal senses is not
The evidence of one of the personal senses is not
more improbable than that of another; mentally to see
another's mind is not more impossible than to feel it;
then wherefore doubt that we see what mind contains,
as well as feel it? We can feel the pain of the sick,
and the sorrow that is not ours causes us to weep; the
fact is we both see and feel, hear, taste and smell, be-
cause of mind and not matter, and from sympathy with
mind; all is mind, and matter one of its beliefs. But
for the interpretations of ignorance, the basis of all
physical manifestations would have been discovered
long ago, and given a scientific explanation; thought
awake to this subject would have discerned the signs of
science in phenomenon, had not a belief, as usual, mis-
interpreted it.
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An absence of eloquence is caused by the belief that
An absence of eloquence is caused by the belief that
schools and colleges possess alone the key to it, or that
some especial endowment is wanting; destroy this be-
lief, and you break the shackles of mind that imprison
its faculties, and set the captive free to utter the beau-
ties of being. Flowers, birds, waves, mountains and
storms are eloquent, and so is man; even the sons of
the forest are sometimes orators beyond their learned
neighbors, for the reason the nearer we approach our
native being, the more we give utterance to Soul; and
it is this universal Intelligence outside of language, that
supplies all that is sublime, or beautiful in words. It
was inquired concerning Jesus, "how this man knew
letters, having never learned?" Eloquence is the
voice of Soul, the God-utterance untrammelled by
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books, conventionality, or the fear of man; even the
books, conventionality, or the fear of man; even the
self-accusing reminder he is unlearned, cannot disturb
the inspired man. I have seen learned men at the
mercy of books, and the unlearned eloquent beyond
them; the so-called mediums let go their beliefs by
supposing somebody else is talking for them, and thus
speak beyond the admitted limits of their own capac-
ities. Soul is infinite in eloquence, as in all else, but
sense is finite in this as in all else; the Soul-inspired
are not comprehended by the man of sense, and the
sense-inspired are mediums deceived in the origin of
what they say. The victim of delirium sees objects
through the shadowy evidence of delusion, and so does
the sleeper, the medium, or clairvoyant, and mortal
man. Where neither certainty of phenomena nor evi-
dence of Principle exists there is no real foundation.
All theories founded on the belief that Soul is in body,
God in man, and Intelligence in matter, therefore, that
we must develop from within outwardly, are false, and
fatal to science. Wisdom is from without, development
is to learn this, to leave the belief of Wisdom within a
skull-bone, and take hold of our God-being outside of
matter. There is no "inner life;" for Life is God,
and God never migrated from man! cause was never
in its effect. In common practice we make no attempt
to put the greater into the less; and if Soul is superior
to body, it is outside of it; and if God is superior to
man, he is not in man; and furthermore, man must get
out of six feet of Intelligence before he is immortal in
Soul. Wisdom cometh from without; Principle is cir-
cumference, and idea centre; Soul is Principle, and
man the central idea of Soul.