Origin of mental species; an investigation into the original growth, development and variation of mental species with especial reference to their relation to the absolute and its adaptation to human usefulness

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CHAPTER I Parturient Paragraphs

Origin of species not the origin of mental powers — Darwin misunderstood — Symbolical determinism not sufficient — Life has been isolated — Impossible and unnecessary to prove anything — The origin of mental species not the origin of life — Matter not a factor in the development of mental species — The origin of mental species reveals the origin of man — Man is developed in mind — The development of body not the development of man — Psychology based on human concepts not sufficient — Failure of language based on bodily vision to express the objects of the vision of the mind — Desymbolized language necessary.

Chapter II

Knowledge of the invisible universe necessary — Invisible universe not invisible to the vision of the mind — Beauty and substance lost when contemplated through bodily vision — Substance of exact science seen through the vision of the mind — Substance seen through the vision of the mind known only in a fragmentary way — The immaterial universe the first principle in determining the origin of mental species — Science originates in the immaterial universe — Immaterial substance the only substance — Immaterial substance the life, intelligence and design of all things — The invisible universe constitutes and determines the species of plants— Origin of obvious species given sufficient consideration — First plant not grown from seed — Science begins where the obvious ceases — Substance not in matter — Substance beyond the discernment of the senses — Substance the cohesion of all things — Senseless consciousness a great power — Senseless consciousness comes through proper education — Desymbolization necessary to the development of senseless consciousness — Satisfying the senses not knowledge — God seen through senseless consciousness. .

CHAPTER III Mind

Negative nature of the human mind — Different activities previously named mind, not Mind — Futility of teaching belief — Highest form of human concept some form of human outline — Process of elimination necessary — Human mind substitutes one illusion for another — Human thoughtout or relative mind — Human mind consists of classified sense impressions — Immaterial intelligence destroys images — The origin of natural species — Every stage of intelligence expressed through the physical — Mortal, felt-out, or relative mind — The felt-out mind evolved — The felt-out mind merely classified sensation — The evolved mind best studied in the vegetable world — Law of the seedless plant — Spirit, Immaterial intelligence or absolute mind — Necessity of beginning with the obvious — Thought-out and felt-out minds not minds but attenuated states of matter — Spirit the substance of all things — Immaterial clothed in natural form — Evolution of the invisible — Evolution of the invisible a multiplication of expressions — Evolution of the invisible complete within itself — Origin of evolution — All achievements the result of fragmentary glimpses of Light — Origin of mental species — Phenomena reduced to a system — Apocalyptical language not sufficient — Cause of warfare of science and theology — Stupendous peace propaganda — Not masters of our own understanding — Elementary presentation of the economic determination of the Absolute.

CHAPTER IV Metaphysical Apperception

Insufficiency of intellectual culture — Learning should consist of knowledge of the invisible God, our fellow man and brute nature — Scientific apperception necessary to eliminate the symbol — All language merely symbolical — The thing symbolized constitutes the substance — The effect of language a melody of ideas — Effect produced by the arrangement of words — Desymbolized ideas the key to science — Nature the expression of a definite order — Nature not what it expresses — Science poetic — Imperfect medium through which we have derived science — Sciences separated by imperfection — Vanity a veil to inspiration and revelation — Scientists manifest the ideal of religious orders — No short cut to science — Effect of failure to find soul in the body — Error of teaching soul was in the body — Inspiration to research — Individual characteristics the expression of a mighty force — Common ground of religion, science and philosophy — Seers and scientists see the same light — Revelation must become education — Chemical analysis not science — Education should awaken the desire for knowledge of the invisible God, our fellowman and nature.

Chapter V

Limitations of mental vision — Weight and density of matter relative — Rock formations a remarkable history — Puny nature of human history — Fossil and human history both accidental — Investigation of the power that induces investigation, necessary — Danger of thought analysis — Death a deceiving influence — Process of the ages dissolves the conclusions of the past — Science a search for truth — What is the source of intelligence — Naming not explaining — Human mind wandering phenomena — Origin of species not the origin of the first species — Origin of the first species — Origin of plant life — Ideas the result of concentration — Adaptation of the unseen to the seen — Action of chemistry mental — Mind something higher than the activity of matter — Origin of nerves — Origin of the consciousness of flesh — Influence of the invisible on nature.

CHAPTER VI Life A knowledge of life necessary to prevent death — Obvious methods of nutrition deceiving — Activities of the obvious not life — Life self-sustaining — Cause not in manifestation — Causeless phenomena — Relative laws of phenomena regarded as intelligence — The fourth dimension — Regeneration — Organized phenomena not life — Human brain and vibration — Immaterial mind vibrationless — Voiceless truth — Necessity of increasing our receptive capacity.

CHAPTER VII The Ultimate Immaterial Element — Its Effect on Human Life and Thought

Felt-out mind the activity of the mass called matter — Has no consciousness — Merely a system — Can be changed by a slow process of variation — Has no reasoning power — The thought-out mind conscious — Birth of comparative analysis — Feeling mind dominated by fear — More active in the thinking mind — Cowardice an attribute of the feeling mind — Courage evidence of the influence of the Ultimate Element — Origin of reforms and prophets — Birth of conscious mental species — Tragedies of life due to the mesmeric influence of the feeling mind — Failure of science to explain prophetic vision — Evil effect of the human interpretation of the Ultimate Element — Human consciousness dethroned — Demand of the feeling mind yields to the Absolute — Acquired traits and unnatural appetites the first to yield — Restores the natural to its natural condition — Will correct a diseased mentality — Explains minds — Wandering phenomena not man — Knowledge derived from nature tends toward enlightenment — Explanation of phenomena made possible by the Ultimate Element — Highly developed consciousness the channel of realization of the Absolute — Perversion of the Absolute by the human mind — Warfare of nature overcome by the Ultimate Element — Laws of God expressed in action — Cause of religious persecution —

Contents U

Wonderful power in the reach of man — Sensation destroyed — Dangers of celibacy — Applied science and metaphysics — Melody of ideas — Disappearance of the symbol — Slight knowledge of the Ultimate Element helpful.

CHAPTER VIII Induced Activities

Analagous to induced electric currents — Sidereal activities — Mysterious and intangible — Deceptive nature — Source of secondary sex traits — Debasing influence — Dangerous to teacher and student — Pictured in Jewish allegory — Origin of personal devil — Graphically described in the Book of Job — Responsible for psychic phenomena — Subject of innumerable volumes under the name of mesmerism — Of no use to mankind — Responsible for mistaken idea, of nature — Necessity for understanding — Responsible for misrepresentation and malice — The nemesis of religion — Perverting influence on civilization.

CHAPTER IX Difficulties of the Theory

Comprehensive questions — Limited view of writers — Receptive faculty undervalued — Inexplainable awakenings — Evolution not an intelligent force — Special and constant interventions of the miraculous^ — Makers of gods — Nature of Prophecy — Nature of God — Inspired and revealed science — Difficulty in realizing the Absolute — Elimination of the symbol necessary — Impossibility of obvious demonstration — Failure of nature to explain nature — Spontaneous generation — Possibility of laboratory demonstration of life — Value of false conclusions — Impossibility of creating good — Power derived from intelligence — Fragmentary nature of works on mental causes — Discoveries often re-statements — Negative nature of the human mind — Impossibility of arguing a lie out of existence — Science of desymbolization — Indefinite nature of works on mind — Sub-conscious mind and inspiration — Regretable style of writing.

CHAPTER X Searching for Truth Impossibility of making an absolute statement in human words — Time, place and chance irrelevant — Senses and egotism — Limited meaning of human words — Causes of confusion — Influence of science on the religious world — Chronology and events — Natural science and the mutable — The immutable self -explained — The beginning God — Law of cohesion — Deceptive nature of the human mind — Nature of death — Cause of idea of immortality — Nature not an entity — Impossible to convince the human mind — The substance of the whole matter — Mistaken ideas of the defenders of God — Huxley's key to science — Insufficiency of religion — Lack of humility — Different strata of mind — The dilemma of the conscious identity — The quickening power — •Origin of confusion — Battles with the elements — The Absolute and the Fourth Dimension — The destiny of man a useful and natural life.

CHAPTER XI Teleology Emerging from nature into the Absolute — Natural science a system rather than a science — Cause of descent — Ratio of change — Sense of location — Formative conscience — Origin of natural science — Dual consciousness — Origin of right and wrong — Retrograde periods — Progress and hate — Adam and intelligent man — Myster}^ of good and evil solved — Origin of diseased species — Too much importance attached to the thinking mind — Feeling mind and thought — Thinking mind and habit — Only one disease — Environment and the feeling mind — The human soul — Miracles explained — Conclusions.

CHAPTER XII

Bible Science Positive science and metaphysics — Metaphysics and the science of the Bible — What the science of the Bible teaches — The law of the prophets — The therapeutical value of the science of the Bible — The science of the Bible, and evolution — Man's relation to God — Religion, science and philosophy — The philosophy of Bible science — The ultimate spiritualization of all things.

CHAPTER XIII The Missing Link

Caution in preparation — Danger of outlining — Evidences of limitations — Ratio of increase of vision — Cause of growth — Arrested species — Lives of most persons habit — Prayer and education — Hegel and the philosophic species — Actual knowing necessary — God and evolution — Principle of orderly development — Limitless dimension — Key to the invisible universe.

CHAPTER XIV Applied Efforts

Ratio of the value of the body to the individual — Life not in the body — Reason for metaphysical tangents — Mind the only activity — Structure an obstruction — Psychoplasmic activity — Applied science and applied efforts — Medicine and manipulation — Progress of manipulation extended to brain cells — The nervous system — Sidereal power — Mental gymnastics — Style of writing beneficial — Classified impressions mistaken for knowledge — Potentialization of words — Secret of education — Pain an experience only — Cause of pain in the felt-out mind — Sense of pain in the thought-out mind — Faith and substance — Origin of diseased species — Process of potentialization of words.

CHAPTER XV

The most useful application of science — ^What is life — What is death — What is matter — Necessity of humility — The felt-out mind complete in itself — Immaterial medium and metaphysics — Food and sunlight not life — Precepts of Jesus of Nazareth — Source of power — Relation of the felt-out mind to the Absolute — Physiology mental — Deductions made from phenomena variable — The remedy for functional disorders not in nature — Experiments in mental restoration — Necessity for scientific work — Evidences of purity — Physiological basis — Pain, passion and acquired traits — Study of disease distasteful — Organized chemical energy — Chemical action — Law of limitation — Chemical activity not life — Dawn of metaphysics — Light of the world — The intelligence of science — Source of being — Functions without organs — Obvious vs. idea — Cause of education and growth — Science and apocalyptical vision — Intelligence of nature vs. intelligence about nature — Atavistic tendencies — The periodic law.

CHAPTER XVI

Cause of genesis — Diseased and healthy mentalities — Depraved tendencies of the human mind — A knowledge of health necessary — Uncertain value of religious methods — Cause of immorality — Effect of studying health — Source of temptations — Effect of belief in an endowed conscience — Cruelty unconscious — Scale of perfection and the Holy Ghost — Conditions of health and happiness — Political economy a religion — Progress and inglorious prophets — Individual and collective psychology — The world's greatest educator — Strange state of the natural world — Period of choosing — Object lesson in happiness — Efforts to explain good and evil — The human mind and murder — SUBSTANCE — SPIRIT— ABSOLUTE— MIND— IMMATERIAL IN- TELLIGENCE — Expression of Spirit — Functions closely related to Spirit — Naming not explaining — Nothing to compare Spirit with — Cause of the endless quarrel about God — What is Spirit — Definitions that do not define — Sum and substance of religious sense — Danger of believing — Substance and the Origin of Mental Species — What Being consists of

— Substance and evolution — Organ vs. function — Evolution and construction — Ideas derived from Principle — Machine invention and Spirit — Tangents with truth — Ideas expressions of activity and not images— THE FELT-OUT MIND — The felt-out mind chemical activity — The felt-out mind and function — Death purely functional — The felt-out mind habit without intelligence — Examples in nature — The felt-out mind and emotion — Origin of the religious mind — Cause of the imperfections of the religious mind — THE THOUGHT-OUT MIND— Origin of thought-out mind— The thought-out mind a collection of images — Experience and sensations — Human absolutism — Origin of personal God — Crucifixion and religious rites — INSPIRATION — Inspiration and the new birth — The unknowable — One central law — Belief and science — Origin of Democracy — The intercession of Spirit — Human institutions temporary — Enlightened selfishness— SPIRIT CONSCIOUSNESS or CONSCIOUSNESS OF SPIRIT— THE CHRIST— Consciousness of substance — Substance and its effect on mankind — Period of seers and prophets — Awe not an indication of holiness — Monasticism and celibacy — Strange consequence — Warfare of science and religion — Apocalyptical visions — Unexpected effect of the highest Good — The cycle and religion — Unconscious utilization of spirit vs. conscious utilization of spirit — The destiny of materiality.

CHAPTER XVII

The Influence of the Felt-out Mind on Human Life AND Thought

Two appetites and the established order of things — Comparative sense — Economic upheavals — Trinity of human efforts—Primitive man — Origin of mental suffering — Iconoplasm and iconoclasm — Origin of laws and law interpreters — Parturition and religion — The felt-out mind and the martyrs — The influence of the felt-out mind on the human idea of heaven and hell — The body deposited by mental activity — The body and ascending activity — Solving the riddle

16 Origin of 3Iental Species

of existence — Battles with unseen power — Male and female minds — Expressions of the felt-out mind — Men and women born of external influence — Matter to the sense becomes mind — Substance the key to all things — Inglorious prophets — Different schools of thought and analysis — Failure to learn from history — Insufficiency of the thought-out mind — Influence of the felt-out mind on institutions — The thoughtout mind very young — Potentized words — Mystical organizations not impeccable — The felt-out mind and habit — Exact science and matter — Darwin on the origin of mental powers — The Absolute element and Survival agency — Intelligence vs. instinct — Survival of the fittest — Mistaken ideas of God — Seeing through inspiration and revelation — Existence of the non-existent — Impartation without impoverishing — Nebulosity and descent — Spirit the ultimate solvent — Object lesson in desymbolization — Art and artists — Ceaseless deception and the silent man — Negative resources of the human mind — Education and overcoming deception — Articulation and power — Object lesson in hibernating animals — Naming God and explaining God — Substance and alchemy — Insufficiency of history — Power and knowledge — The relative and the absolute — Study of the human species distasteful — Pleasure derived from studying species evolving in truth — Progress a law of truth — Knowledge of truth eliminates the offensive in evolution — Consciousness and the world — True significance and knowledge — First articulations colored by the felt-out mind — Evidence of the felt-out influence everywhere — Effect of hard and fixed processes of thinking — Nature of sleep — The processes of the mystics — The felt-out mind, religion and selfishness — The felt-out mind and militarism — The felt-out mind and education.

CHAPTER XVIII

Insuflficiency of moral enthusiasm — Evolution and decay — The hope of mankind — Progress vs. ecclesiasticism — Potentized words and the Holy Ghost — Procession of the Holy

Ghost — Piety synonymous with cowardice — Inspiration and revelation — The first and second person of God — Symbol vs. substance — Substance derived from style of writing — Order of society vs. religion — Glorified and inglorious prophets — Resemblance of teachings — Fundamental principle — Guiding star of democracy — Influence of environment — Evil not in man — Impersonal nature of evil — Moral efforts not destined to defeat — Object lesson in legislation — Studies in cross-section — -Sovereign remedy and education — Good automatic — Emasculation of the word "morals" — Institutional dishonesty — Origin of political economy and ethics — Revealed and evolved ethics — Legislative government disappointing — Cause of insufficiency of legislative government — Problems of industrialism — Skill a form of capital — Inspired ethics — Agricultural and industrial civilization — Law a channel for evil — Anomaly in industrial evolution — The leaven of all progress — Spiritual ecstacy and metaphysical trance — Only one way out — Condition of society under applied principle — Elimination of the human element — Appalling state of human aff'airs — Conscience^ relative and absolute — Vivifying principle — Lesson from the drama of Job — Induced activities — Evils growing out of glorified institutions — Passing of schools of thought helpful — Principle and everlasting usefulness — Male and female minds — The new birth.

CHAPTER XIX

Nature of revelation — Failure of religious orders to establish spiritual relation — Processes of the human mind a hindrance — Danger of devitalizing the senses — Necessity for humility — Process of realization of revelation — Principle destroys all evil — Agencies unnecessary — Evil not necessary to the realization of good — Process of separating good from evil — Peculiarities of rarefied atmosphere — Scientific investigation of the mystical timely — Objects described by Bible characters explained — Peculiarities of the apocalypse — Mysterious influence attending sacred writings and treasures — Power to heal disease the effect of revelation — Worshipful nature of the male and female minds — Substance seen by men and women — Teachings of the revealed species alike — Desymbolized meaning of church — Spiritual ear not a faculty of physical sense — The value of revealed species — Influence of the felt-out mind on revelation — The only warfare — Modern evidence and demonstration of Apostolic thought — Present opportunities to investigate the revealed species and its eff'ect on life and thought — Influence of the Holy Ghost on the individual — Jesuitism and revelation — Influence of the felt-out mind on Jesuits — Moderns under tlie influence of revelation and deceit — Natural cun- "^ning potentized by revelation — Atavistic tendency of the human mind under revelation — Human beings revert to animals—Failure of revelation to inspire defined intelligence — Miracle-working evil — Only hope of religion — Religious opposition to education revealed — Object lessons in potentized evil — Depravity of the human mind — Countervailing influence on the human mind — Countervailing influence lacking in the institution — Soulless existence — Object lesson in the vivifying influence of an idea — Origin of the economic movement — The law of compensation never complete in this world — The ethical variety and moral reciprocity — Absolute laws derived^ not made — The supreme test of wisdom.

CHAPTER XX

Variation of Species Under Domestication

The natural man and the Holy Ghost— The industrial world and the natural man — God and the primitive man — The natural man and phenomena — ^Miracle-working evil — The distinctive character of God — Object lessons in ethical insufliciency — The world neither natural nor divine — Inspiration must supply its own needs — Danger of animalization — Revelation properly adapted — Obj ect lesson in the influence of phenomena on the felt-out, natural, and the inspired minds — Eff'ect of contemplating the immaterial natural — Most desirable state of mind — Camouflage nature of language — Man makes his own world — Ecstatic contemplation vs. inspiring contemplation — The revealed species and human usefulness — Substance of the immaterial natural — Intelligence supplies its own needs — The world's desire — Nature of nature — Influence of the objects of the vision of the mind on nature — Nature of righteous judgment — The revealed species and ethics — Progress without the Bible — Substance derived from the inglorious prophets — Personal experiences with moderns under the influence of Revelation — Admonitions of Paul reveal like insufficiency — Insufficiency of Revelation in the thought-out world — Processes of mental absorption and annihilation — Exact and natural sciences and Revelation — Segregation of species under domestication — Relation of species to methods of vision — Effect of Revelation on the thought-out natural — The cohesion of civilization — Similarit}'- of ancient and modern methods — Object lessons from moderns under the influence of Revelation — Pacifism of the religious variety — Literary culture a deception — Precept and example necessary to progress — Spirit the only energy — Mistaken ideas of economy — Necessity of developing faculties — The effect of developing faculties.

CHAPTER XXI

Luxury, Belief, and Revelation important factors in the arrestment of species — Limiting influence of the law of favored races — Eff'ect of luxury on races and species — Variation in environment necessary to development — Eff'ect of the law of sufficiency on the growth of faculties — Importance of the faculty of adjustment — The eff'ect of slavery on races and species — Struggle for existence in nature not bitter — Intent and purpose not natural evolution — Evolution a peaceful process — Necessity of adaptation — Eff'ect of paternalism, specialization, and protection — Cause of progress — Substance of conventional lies — Law of compensation in human progress — Law of growth — Advance beyond belief necessary — Origin of belief — Difference between believing and knowing — Definitions of belief — Substance synonymous with power — Belief not an entity — Effect of belief — Belief in God not sufficient — Nature and substance of man — Ideas of right and wrong — Comparison of the oldest and youngest of sciences — Definition of Revelation — Effect of Revelation on the faculties — Mental species defined — Effect of the struggle for existence — Cause of arrested species — Natural reliance on God not sufficient in the inspired thought-out world — Failure of monks and mystics to solve the problems of civilization and decay — The problem of good and evil — Philosophical exploration made possible through the process of desymbolization — Effect of the study of spirit — Insufficiency of scientific achievements without socialized conscience — Effect of exercising the faculties while under the influence of Revelation — Possibilities of higher development — Natural science and Divine science.

Introduction

The study of mental activities and their relation to God and nature has been, and is yet, an intellectual luxury. Occasionally a new teacher comes into the world and interests a limited group by restating in an entertaining way what others have taught.

The conclusionis in this book have not been thought out in ecstasy and idealism but they are the result of laboratory demonstration. Some of the experiments have been made more than a thousand times, many of them hundreds of times, and even where the experiments have not been so numerous the conclusions have been sustained by experience.

Until this subject is reduced to some order and classification, which can be incorporated into our daily activities and academic life, it will never get further than speculation and entertainment. Moreover, to accomplish this, the method of presenting the subject must, of necessity, by its naturalness, appeal to our relation to nature, to our knowledge of the processes of evolving civilization and to our consciousness of a Supernal influence.

The pragmatic school that has been forced on the academic world by the evolving processes of utilitarianism will, like all of the others, fail of its purpose unless we avoid the tendency to merely discuss these processes as a school instead of studying and extending the processes themselves.

The system of classifying the different expressions of mind as outlined in this work, will, as a result of its 21 nature, eliminate its own imperfections. By making obvious to the vision of the mind the different phases of mind, as well as their relation to the element to which they are necessary, an objective study of the mind becomes possible.

The classification : Felt-out — Thought-out — In spired, and Revealed Minds, by its very naturalness, appeals readily to the obvious distinctions with which all are, to some extent, familiar. The blending of the different strata of useful activities that ultimate in Mind is susceptible of further distinctions, classifications and extensions as we connect their development with the necessity of their existence. The thought-out natural or male or female mind is distinguishable from the thoughtout useful or civilized mind, and the thought-out useful or civilized mind is again distinguishable from the thought-out inspired mind when the thought-out inspired mind blends with the revealed Mind.

CHAPTER I Parturient Paragraphs

Many years ago in reading Darwin's ''Origin of Species" I was wonderfully impressed by these words : ^'^I may here premise, that I have nothing to do with the origin of mental powers any more than I have with that of life itself."^ They have often recurred to me since, and as they completely exonerate Darwin from the misrepresentations that have so long perverted the teachings of this remarkable man, I have ever since used them to defend him.

Nothing has been discovered since to change the fundamental contention of his theory. In fact, it is no longer a theory but a fixed fact with regard to the transformation of the obvious. So far as the origin of life is concerned, little has been determined by the school that he established. However, the systems of modification and variation for which he contended are now a part of our agricultural and industrial activities.

So far as symbolical determinism is concerned, life seems to be as far away as ever. To determine what life is, I have learned that we must resort to an entirely different method than has been heretofore used. Life has been isolated and the purpose of this work is to ex-

^ Origin of Species — Darwin ( Page 346 ) , Vol. I. 23 plain how it may be done. It has beeil said, and there is much truth in the saying, "It is both impossible and unnecessary to prove anything." This is especially true in determining the origin of mental powers. Likewise does this apply to the origin of life, which, in the last analysis, is unthinkable. However, by the origin of life, we do not mean the origin of life itself, but rather its origin in the forms in which we see it manifested.

While the origin of material species is a felt-out evolution, the origin of mental species is a thought-out expression. It is with the latter we have to deal in this work. While in this search we will eliminate matter entirely, it will be necessary to refer often to the felt-out mind. Only by eliminating matter from the premises and conclusions in the study of man can we determine his origin. Material man appears and disappears, and we know no more when he has disappeared than when he appeared. Matter changes its form but never alters its value. We have named some of its processes growth, and some of them decay, but a study of nature reveals one to be a- growth as much as the other.

The determination of the origin of mental powers will reveal the origin of man. Matter in its multifarious forms manifests life expressing itself, from the minutest microscopical activity to the most powerful animal or the most intelligent man. We call this "man" because it is the highest expression of the activity that enlightens mankind. Man and life are synonymous, and when we have determined the substance of the one we shall have determined the nature of the other.