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The seat of respiration is in the lower brain, the spinal and sympathetic nervous systems being the distributing systems for mentation to the body. The pneumogastric nerve controls respiration.

The seat of reflected mentation is in the greater brain, which receives through the external sense organs vibratory nourishment from external sources.

Now we have before us a beautiful exemplification of the planetary system as a greater living being. The planets are his organs, and the orbital rings are his supporting body. It is principles which are involved in this greater process, for forms are adjusted to necessity and environment.

The two great principles, easily discerned, are those of digestion and distribution of elements for the physical development, and the elimination of waste, and the principles which control mentation, the fruit of the system.

The sun principle is the first and the moon principle is the latter; hence, we know that the physical is nourished by spiral motion and radiation, and the mental is nourished by orbital motion and reflection. The sun principle is in the heart. The moon principle is in the brain. This is why we find each of the greater organs provided with a satellite helpmeet—the body and the head; the heart and the lungs; the stomach and the liver, and many others. In fact there is a common duality running

through the whole system.

It is evident that, in every living system, both the physical and the mental nourishment is derived from without the body, and mentation is from within.

In the planetary system the spiral represents the digestive process, and the orbital fields the physical result.

Special adaptation of physical parts so link together man and the lower animals, it is foolish to insist that man is some sort of special dispensation in nature. In man, as in the lower animals, rudimentary evidences of physical changes to meet new conditions are the same. The eyeless fishes, found in places where eyes are not needed, because of the absence of light to develop and exercise vision, reveal rudimentary eyes.

There is a perfect resemblance and correspondence to the various parts of the skeleton of man found in fishes, reptiles, birds and quadrupeds—in the wing of the bat and the bones of the human arm, for instance,

Thus nature preserves her general plan of construction even where the parts are not needed. Variations are but provisions for some specific ends which require the change. The universal dynamical laws are unchangeable, but nature has the power to direct these laws in physical manifestations to meet some obvious end and purpose.

Science is supposed to have been built up by an inviolable code of inductive reasoning, but natural analogies must not be ignored or even belittled. Moreover, any attempt to couple true science with Christian fiction only hurts science, for fiction very often is mistaken for truth.

PART X

THE GNOSTIC ORIGIN OF THE CHRISTIAN IDEA

(The unfolding of nature reveals the evolution of man.)

Our definition of the universe includes all, the infiniteone being, composed of many differentiated units and parts. It is almost painful to think there is no limit to living systems. Through endless ages they form, disintegrate and reform, like the monotonous grinding of a never-ceasing mechanical motion. Yet, this is palliated by the belief that, the greater units of the infinite system are identical in their nature, and that it is possible to know all by an analysis of one perfected unit. Therefore the mind need not extend into limitless realms to know all. Nature wisely focuses her revealing rays to bring into visible and understandable range the invisible secrets of the infinite. This universal limitation of units alone makes possible the infinite. Without the finite there could be no conception of the infinite.

The puny, inconsistent character of the Ecclesiastical pretense comes home to us, when we take up the study of the Gnostic cosmography-the science of the universe as a whole. We may readily understand why they chose to make of a single tertiary part of the great universal system the "beginning.”

The absurdity of attempting to establish a human monopoly of mediumship between a single planet and the infinite, should have forbade such an enterprise, did they realize the nature of the universe.

Nevertheless, Gnostic philosophy practically demonstrates the possibility of establishing universal mental contact through available universal units having a thought in common.

The sense of being truly is the fourth estate, and through this sense universal mentation is possible.

It is the wonderful system of valence, acting as a vital medium, which binds together all of the universal parts and reveals their natural attitudes, positions and functions, which makes the revelation possible.

In the last analysis all matter resolves back into the electric pabulum, completing a cycle.

Planetary systems are the solid fruits of the cosmic processes. In the evolution of worlds we have seen this valence system adjusting the combining powers of elements to intelligently construct the greater manifestation of mind in matter. An outer body is formed to protect the inner or organic system from disruption by external assault or shock, exactly as our external bodies are formed to protect and support our vital organs within. It is these organs which perform the functions which bind us to the universal scheme.

This is mind manifesting in matter.

"And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." (Jno. 1:14.)

This merely personifies the universal mind in the living tissues of physical being, intelligent matter, capable of expressing its form, purpose, and functions in the economy of nature, as the eye, ear and hand reveal their usefulness to the whole body.

The following diagrams illustrate the manner by which the great cosmic systems are bound together by the external rule of four, and are controlled by the system of valence.

This is one of the greater cosmic units.

The universal story is like a vivid romance. We have previously said that, the creation of our planetary system, and doubtless an infinite number of similar systems, manifests in a spiral as the bodies which become our planets are evolved out of a great, central, nebulous vortex. It is, in fact, a process of controlled elimination-a greater chemical act in a body following absolute laws established by previous steps in cosmic evolution.

As each body is cast out, it presses forward the whole previous system one wave in the progression, until eight planets

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are born. All of these planets are bound by attraction to the parent, central body. They pass through a definite unfoldment of gestation, birth, childhood, adolescence, old age, senility, death and disintegration, all of which are reflected back to each planet as it takes the position which our planet now occupies. It is at this point that revelation occurs.

Upon arriving at mental and physical maturity, which is sixth position in the planetary procession, the planets pass of the direct influence of the central sun and assume positions in a common orbit in which they exercise new functions to perfect the greater planetary unit, assuming an orbital external ring about the system.

It must be observed that the planets are the solid fruits of the central sun; the moons are the solid fruits of the planets.

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