Sec. 2. Page Line The Scientific Position. When we come to consider the scientific position the conclusions are confirmed. Apart altogether from the overwhelming testimony of the Bible, it has been proved unquestionably by such leaders 5 in science as Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Barrett, and Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace in England, and by Professors Richet in France, Lombroso in Italy, and SchrenkNotzing in Germany, as well as by many others, that matter can be caused to appear and disappear, although no two are agreed as to what really is happening. Most of those above mentioned believe that the effects which have been proved to take place have something to do with departed spirits. Two leading authorities on the subject have actually borne testimony to the coming universal disappearance of all matter. Dr Le Bon, probably the most advanced physicist of the day, has proved that matter and so-called force are identical, and can be caused to cease to exist. He says that the whole of the material world is disappearing,* and also shows that with all such movements the change comes about more and more rapidly, and at the end is tremendous. : Sir William Crookes, now President of the Royal Society, the leading scientific body in the world, in his address on "Modern Views of Matter," delivered before the Congress of Applied Chemistry at Berlin, has said: "This fatal quality of atomic dissociation appears to be universal .. the whole range of human experience is all too short to afford a parallax whereby the date of the extinction of matter can be calculated." He also, commenting upon the modern idea that matter is "nothing more than superimposed layers of positive and negative electricity," has said that he refrained from speculating as to what would happen to us if some clever researcher of the future discovered a method of making these alternate layers of plus and minus cancel each other out."† This method has now been discovered, and its results made clear. (See page 83.) The "Seventh Trumpet."-Those workers who have made a study of the vibration of matter, and of its disappearance and reappearance, will recognise that the giving out in this book of the accurate statements Concerning matter, sounds the complementary and keynote vibration to that in action in the material universe, heralding the speedy and total dematerialisation of all evil. The statement that "there is nothing but God" is the realisation that brings about the downfall of all matter. It has been referred to by many writers in different ways. They speak of it as a trump," as a "great sound," as the "name of God that it is not allowed to mention." For instance, Colonel Garnier, in his book, already quoted from, states that the end of 1917 is shown in the "The Evolution of Force." † Address on "New Elements in Chemistry," December 5th, 1910. Page Line Sec. 2. Bible as the date of the "Last Trump," and of the "Resurrection," and probably there are about a dozen different names for it in the writings of occult workers, comparatively few of whom have understood it to mean the disappearance of all matter, and therefore of all evil, though they all recognise that it heralds some tremendous change. Even in fiction we have had this "Last Trump" alluded to. Those who have read "The Human Chord," by Mr. Algernon Blackwood, will remember he says that the sounding together by mankind of the great name we call Jehovah, in the right way, is to make mankind" as gods," and bring this world to an end. Value of the Testimony. 5 10 15 20 A few years ago, before I had found in Esdras a direct prophetical confirmation of the date of the end, I sometimes felt that, perhaps, after all, I might have made some mistake about the end coming so soon. This feeling of doubt always vanished when I considered that ever since I was retained by the Daily Express to make a professional examination into mental healing, with one exception, I never had a man come to me for help out of sin where it had not been instantaneous, and he had gone out of the room free. For instance, I have never helped a drunkard who has come to me for help, however hopeless a case, where he has not been helped instantaneously. This is because the healing has been done by the realisation of God, and not by thinking of the patient. In Esdras this treatment by the realisation of God is spoken of as being on a great mountain and " upon the top of the Mount Zion" (II. Esdras 13, ver. 6, 35). In the one case where the patient was not healed, he did not tell me what the sin was, and a few days after he was shot. Out of all these cases, only once has there been any relapse, as far as I am aware; in one hopeless case of drink the patient, who would not take any trouble himself whatsoever, was drunk three times afterwards, and then had no no further temptation. Similarly, I know of no case of the healing of severe disease, growths, consumption, etc., through me, where there has been a return, although in two cases it was suggested that there 3 had been a relapse. This was not in the slightest degree likely as neither of the patients had asked again for help. One had been twice operated upon for malignant cancer, and then had been instantaneously healed, not a trace being left, and consequently would have been sure to have appealed again for help had a relapse occurred. The other, 40 which was a test case, had also been operated on for malignant cancer three or four times, and had been pronounced incurable, as it was coming again in several places. All signs had disappeared in two or three months, so that it is not likely that she would not have asked for help if it had returned. Further, for some years I have been in the habit of saying, for instance, in my public lectures when answering questions, "Try 30 Sec. 2. to think of the most out-of-the-way trouble that you can, other than one of the thousands of diseases, and see if you can think of a trouble that some one has not been helped out of when I showed him how to pray and prayed for him." No one has ever mentioned 5 any of the hundred and one troubles that mankind is heir to, of which I could not give an example. In fact, only once has anyone mentioned a trouble of which I could only give one instance. I was once asked whether I had ever helped anyone who had committed a murder. I was able to answer in the affirmative, and that 1 he was out of his troubles in a fortnight. These are no lightly made claims to the value of a knowledge of truth. They have constantly been made publicly, and so often have I been attacked, that, if they were not true, I would have been challenged. In one public address I said: "For over ten years I have I never seen men fighting or even an angry man, without there being perfect calm, as a rule, in about ten to twelve seconds, seldom as much as half a minute, and I am sure never as much as a minute. In one case, at the request of one of the leading clergymen in London, over 2,000 howling men were perfectly calm in a few 3 seconds." The latter statement was challenged by the editor of one of the papers, who stated that the clergyman mentioned had not asked for my help. Later the clergyman wrote to me what was practically a letter of apology saying that he had forgotten that he had asked for my assistance. My earliest important investigation and report was made for one of the leading financial houses in Londoh nearly forty years ago. It was on the first system of electric lighting commercially introduced into England. Out of the many investigations and reports I have since made on new discoveries and inventions of every kind, I know of no case where anyone can put a finger on any mistake. I think, therefore, it will be agreed that, considering the marvellous protection of God with which I have been surrounded, though I may be mistaken in details, it is not likely that a mistake as to our now being right at the end of all matter could have been made in the greatest investigation of my life and the climax of my work. The End Devoutly to be Wished. Let no one fear this miscalled end of the world. This great world change, so devoutly to be wished for, is already dawning with glorious rays of light on the vision of those who, knowing the fallacy of the evidence of their senses, are seeking to keep their gaze fixed on "the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (II. Cor. 4, ver. 18). Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh" (II. Cor. 5, ver. 16). "For the invisible things of him from the is creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead" (Rom. 1, ver. 20). Perfect peace, whatever the troubles, is the reward of those who think 66 Page Line Page Line Sec. 2. of God instead of evil, as shown by the prophet Isaiah in the following words: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee" (Isaiah 26, ver. 3). 5 I have now put forward what I know of the time of the end. Each one can form his own opinion as to when it will take place. That it will take place, and that soon, is a certainty. Our work is clear. It is to be prepared and to obtain such a knowledge of true prayer that we can do our share in reducing the troubles. As to the actual date, that is comparatively a detail. If I have interested my readers sufficiently to make them look closely into the matter that is all I desire. Their 10 realisation of truth will do the rest. From the summit of ceaseless true prayer, uplifting conscious communion with God, so often referred to in Scripture as the mountain of the Lord, the heavenly pictures, hitherto revealed only in glimpses, may be seen expanding into the limitless horizon of infinite 15 Spirit, the teeming universe of unfathomable Mind. Here, infinite as God, his creator, stands God's perfect man, the male and female of God's creating, perpetual witness to the continual unfoldment of inexhaustible good. In the undimned sunlight of Truth, all the grandeur and minutiæ 20 of spiritual creation stand revealed as they ever have been, are, and ever will be in the sight of God, perfect, uncontaminable, eternal. This promised land is here for all, now and always. The crossing All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good... (ROBERT BROWNING.) 30 SECTION III. Refer to Page Line THE HUMAN MIND," THAT IS "NO-MIND." Entirely ignorant as we are, we certainly cannot venture to set bounds to the mind's power. . . . There are many more things in the 5 reciprocal action of mind and organic elements than are yet dreamt of in our philosophy" (Maudsley). "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, (Shakespeare: "Hamlet," I., 5). The human or material man appears to be a marvellous being 13 27 when even a few of his limitations are destroyed, and so extraordinary are his seeming powers, counterfeiting the infinite. capacities of the one Mind, that many think the real spiritual 486 39 being exists in the material person. This is because they confuse the individualised subconscious "mind "* with the real spiritual man who is made in the image and likeness of God, cognisant of and reflecting good only. 1: "Had science turned its attention to these phenomena with even a fraction of the energy and study which such transcendental facts demanded, we should have advanced far beyond our present limits of knowledge; but instead it has chosen to simply ignore the facts as inconvenient "t (J. W. Heysinger, M.D.). 65 35 63 41 18 10 1 The Subconscious Mind or Basic False Mentality:-"A formidable 80 range of phenomena must be scientifically sifted before we effectually 168 44 grasp a faculty so strange, so bewildering, and for ages so inscrutable as the direct action of mind" (Sir William Crookes, F.R.S.). All psychologists have recognised what has been called the sub- 74 16 conscious mind, although it can be more accurately designated 76 18,30 the illusory, mortal, subconscious, or basic false mentality. Dr. Schofield calls it the "unconscious mind," but if it were mind at all 291 41 it would be conscious. Myers calls it the "subliminal self," but the 322 30 real self is spiritual. Schopenhauer calls it "the better consciousness," but both conscious and subconscious minds are equally bad. 79 41 McCunn calls it "the soul," but this word in the Bible, according to its lower so-called mind" ("Science and Health," p. 377, line 21. Mary Baker Eddy). "Spirit and Matter before the Bar of Modern Science " ‡ Presidential Address, British Association, 1898 |