Chapter
VIII
The
Mental Supplants the Physical
Genesis
23, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28
IT
IS SELF-EVIDENT that both the
physical and metaphysical sides of life
are capable of manifold expression. Some
metaphysicians contend that all is mind
and matter is the negative of mind or
nothingness. However, contemplation of
the tremendous possibilities infolded
in the earth makes us pause when we hear
that assertion. Here beneath our feet
is a crust of substance upon whose pages
like a mighty book is written a record
of the earth's evolution during the aeons
and ages through which it has passed from
mist to matter. In it the geologist finds
the fossils that tell him of its physical
history, and the trained psychic can hold
in his hand a piece of inanimate rock
and it will tell him its evolution from
ether to matter. The souls of all forms
from mollusk up to man have left a certain
memory essence upon the substance they
handled, and that essence is preserved
ready to be redeemed and raised to higher
levels by the minds that gave it form.
Although the body of
"Imperious
Caesar, dead and turned to clay
Might
stop a hole to keep the wind away,"
its soul
essence endures and will in the final
judgment, or justification, of man's work
be merged into the perfect body. Daniel
pointed to this when he wrote, "Many
of them that sleep in the dust of the
earth shall awake."
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