We have found that what we call body and mind and soul are so closely
bound together that no one of them can be well or ill independently of
the others. We divide them in our thought and speech; but we cannot
find any line of separation. Every state joins on to the next one:
mineral and vegetable and animal are composed of the same elements
which pass from one state to another. The silex and the lime are taken
up to make the wheat hard, we eat wheat and these elements pass into
our bones, and, when our bodies return to Mother Earth, the rootlets
take them up again to run the round once more.
So the body and mind and soul are all one Life. There are no divisions
in Nature. The form differs, but the essence is uniform. We classify
for the sake of convenience and of clear statement. As Sir Oliver
Lodge says, in “The Survival of Man”—“Boundaries and classifications
must be recognized as human artifices, but for practical purposes
distinctions are necessary”; but the philosopher never loses sight of
the fundamental fact that each animal, flying-fish and whale, seal and
polar bear, bat and bird, can be classified only by seizing on some
acquired characteristic, such as the temperature of the blood, the
method of birth, or the structure of the bones. These mark the animal
as belonging to an order.
We see, then, that all are One, different manifestations of the
Universal Life, which must be understood and treated as a whole to see
and avail ourselves of the Universal Harmony. Accordingly we find that
we must work with Nature if she is to bring forth abundantly, of bodily
or of spiritual things, to satisfy our desires. Only in the sweat of
our faces do we absorb the full comfort and strength of the bread of
life.
Whatever you have willingly received, willingly give to others. Only
when you cast the seed, this your mental bread, upon the fertilizing
waters, shall it return to you in the harvest after many days.
* * * * *
What I have written, I have written as much for myself as for you: if
it were not so, it would be useless both to you and to me. We must go
up each for himself and take the strongholds of our own Ignorance and
Distrust and Fear. Let no one think that he can get life by merely
reading these words of life.
Try these things for yourself—teach these things to your other selves;
breathe them in and live them out. Open your mind and enlarge your
heart so that the Spirit may be able to bless you and keep you with
him, and to be kind to you, and to lift up the Light of his countenance
upon you and give you
PEACE.
APPENDICES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Some matters of interest mainly to students of sleep phenomena have
been mentioned in the text and put in these appendices. In this way the
general reader is saved the trouble of skipping in the body of the text.
Appendix “A” contains some medical information on the subject of
Insomnia and sleep-inducing drugs.
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