Chapter I
THE UNKNOWN GOD
“Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you.”
--Acts 17:23.
When a noted scientist spoke of God as “The Unknowable,” either he had never read, or he quite overlooked, the declaration of Jesus that a knowledge of God is an essential necessity. A perception of God is as imperative to the soul as is the knowledge of mathematics in the ordinary affairs of life; for what mathematics is to the regulation of system and order in the outer world, divine metaphysics is to the maintenance of peace and power in the mental realm.
When Job’s comforters asked of him, “Canst thou by searching find out God?” “Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perception?” he answered, “Surely, I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.” A less courageous
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