Chapter 6 - Understanding - p.127

As a bar of iron gains magnetic virtue by being placed for a time in a special position, so, it has been opined, particles of matter arranged and long continued in a certain posture may eventually become surcharged with life.

As natural phenomena are mysteriously symbolic of mystical realities we can understand by the bar of iron and the particles of matter how it came to pass that the inspirationally taught Theophoroi of old discovered that the inner vision of man ofttime giving attention to "Ain Soph the Great Countenance of the Absolute" would charge man with transfiguring newness of Divine Life in plain manifestation.

Great promises have been caught by awakening watchers toward the Vast Vast Countenance of Him who exalteth by his power, none teaching like Him:

"Look unto me and live." "Seek ye my face and live." "I give life to the faint." "And I will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth."

Take a wide, wide view of The Vast-Vast. "He giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not." Upbraiding and stinting hail not from him, "not life but the Cause that life is -- not spirit but the Cause that spirit is."

The oldest science in the world is the Mystical Science. It came to primordial man from the Tao over the Tao, while wistfully uplooking toward the wooing