: j*\ ^isp» ; ** v *** : -!wP? ; <#?*% vSp.** ** i '*- v ^ •: ++# •■Sfllav "fey* .iON^. "W v^W*. "•bv v ,0 \ ' v^>° P .i^% THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE OR LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE BY JENNIE HENRY PRICE $1.50 i'Xvto Co COPY I!! COPYRIGHTED 1907 BY JENNIE HENRY AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER AMARILLO, TEXAS. All rights reserved. Published in July 1907. PREFACE In presenting this work to the general public the author has covered a field of the most in- tense human interest, one that has engaged the attention, thought and deep study of all ages. In history we find many brilliant minds devoted to this most fascinating study. From this vast storehouse the author has been guided in her re- search for data bearing on the present work. This volume covers, not only the oft har- rowed ground but new and hitherto unexplored regions. We are carried into the swift current of a higher and better thought, are borne along with the author's magnificent flow of language into the realms of what is to many, an unknown world. The beauties of creation and the infinite love and compassion of a God of love, beauty and all embracing tenderness is unfolded to our eyes. That the author is inspired we can not doubt after a perusal of this work. That she has put her best efforts into expressing the thoughts conveyed by a higher intelligence we are convinced. That no one can read without benefit, we are fully persuaded, That no one who reads with even the most indifferent motive will fail to grasp at least a part of the author's love for "every good and perfect thing" is a self evident fact. The author is launching this her first effort on the uncertain sea of public approval, but we feel that to her it will prove the open port of appreciation. The subject is so replete with human in- terest, and fills so perfectly the craving for a knowledge of that which lies behind the vail that we believe a careful perusal of the follow- ing pages will prove not only profitable, in that it will afford a pleasant recreation, but will convey a lasting benefit as well. ''Just on the farther bound of sense, Unproved by outward evidence But known by deep influence, Which through our grosser clay doth shine, With light un waning and divine Beyond where highest thoughts can fly Stretcheth the world of mystery, One step beyond life's workday things, One more beat of the souls broad wings/ ' Mittie Morton Morgan. To the all wise God, He who is our Creator and the -Giver of every good and perfect gift, and to every creature that He has made in His image and likeness, this work is dedicated. Respectfully, The Author "I saw a gate: a harsh voice spake and said, "This is the gate of Life;" above was writ, "Leave hope behind, all ye who enter it;" Then shrank my heart within itself for dread; But, softer than the summer rain shed, Words dropt upon my soul, and they did say, "Fear nothing, Faith shall save thee, watch and pray!" So, without fear I lifted up my head, And lo! that writing was not, one fair word Was carven in its stead, and it was "Love." Then rained once more those sweet tones from above With healing on their wings: I humbly heard, "I am the Life, ask and it shall be given! lam the way, by me ye enter Heaven!" THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES ALBERTUS MAGNUS, THE SECOND THE BOOK OF NATURE OPENED You, a being of great and far reaching power and the lawful and legitimate heir to every creat- ed good. Your own architect and the means for grati- fying every righteous wish at hand. One plain receipt, both Sympathetic and Natural. Poverty, ugliness, disease, death and all ab- normal conditions whatsoever a crime against God and nature. The knowledge of ways and means again sent forth, verified and approved by the great, good and learned of all lands and ages. A plain, easily understood and perfectly appli- cable law of the universe governing the supply and distribution of every created good and reach- ing its pearly and illimitable arms into the realms of the immortal, within your reach. NO MAGIC, NO BLACK ART. Natural law, in natural places. Life, love, HEALTH, BEAUTY, PROSPERITY AND HAPPINESS abundant here and hereafter— Your birthright and inheritance. Reach forth your hand. Know your Creator. Know yourself and apply the good that lives abundant for you. CHAPTER I. "I have awakened to the truth and I am resolved to accomplish my purpose.' ' It is not the purpose of the author of this work to write a religious volume, formulate and seek to set up a new religion, or attempt to criti- cize or tear down the mighty fabric of the old ones. Each and every individual has ideas and views, thoughts, feelings, imaginations and super- stitions peculiar and characteristic of themselves alone, with which we have no wish to interfere or come in contact. They study, ponder, weigh, compare, judge and pronounce sentence irrespective of all other judgments and sentences, past all recall or remedy on all matters pertaining to the mysteri- ous and unknown, such as the why and where- fore, the whence and whither, the cause and ef- 10 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE feet, the natural and super-natural, the human and divine, in a way, to say the least, that is en- tirely satisfactory to themselves, if not so abso- lutely certain or convincing to others. Neither is it our purpose to attempt to explain (at least to the satisfaction of everybody) the phe- nomenon of any uncommon or unusual occurence, or any of those manifestations of the wonderful or sublime that take place around us almost continu- ally and which at most are so much a matter of conjecture and speculation only. Throughout all nature, animate and inanimate, organic and inorganic, we see and believe that both the positive and negative exist and prevail and that either one or the other, oftentimes both, as warring or contending factions are continually in operation and evidence. Life, goodness, beauty, captivation, allure- ment, encouragement, inspiration, restoration and recompense move side by side with evil, hatred, wickedness and despair, ugliness and misery, failure, disease and death, and we know not the whyfore. The human family has not passed the first milestone on the journey to knowledge along these lines and will perhaps grope on in erroneous imag- LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 11 Inations, conjectures and speculations only to the end of the chapter. But we conceive that all matter is only the outward and visible sign of an unseen but all per- vading inward spiritual force and all good things temporal, the reflection and promise of better things eternal, That the omnipotent love, power, goodness and purity; or that place, state or being called God, or the Center of the Universe, is the entire visible and invisible, undivided and inseparable, indes- tructable, unbounded and illimitable fabric of all existences known and unknown. That the very essence of God lives and has its being, not as one who possesed of body, parts, sex andgender,is under the necessity of locality or place of residence or abode; but as a warm, intelligent, loving, productive and creative presence or princi- ple in and around each and all, occupying, prevad- ing and filling immensity and every creature or thing therein, with its mighty attributes which is the sum total of all conceptions, the first and last of all qualities and perfections. That it breathes from the throat of the night- engaleand rolls in to^sj^Ji^nder ^or^he^might^ bosom of the hurricane and tornado ^speaks in the 12 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE heart of the tiny rose bud which responds to its presence, and quivers and swells to bursting with inspiration and promise; but best of all trembles and thrills with lightning flash and swiftness along every fibre of man's being with the knowl- edge of something that is better than inspiration or promise— the certainty that if he only will man was not born to die. That this great warm, throbbing, pulsating, galvanic and magnetic heart, mind and soul of di- vinity will live and work under proper conditions illimited, unbounded and eternally in you, in me, and in each and every individual, atom or molecule of all creations in worlds without end. Also that the human is a part of the divine in the broadest, fullest sense of the word, and there- fore, if it wills a creature by far more power fu in its operations and possibilities than it is gener- ally conceded to be. In other words that the human is the head, principal and most powerful of all the mighty organs through which' Deity operates and becomes manifest, and that if continuously and properly trained and cultivated can in that time, which also merges into and becomes a part of LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 13 eternity, reach a state of being only a degree less mighty than that of Deity itself. That the Father does not close us off from any earthly perfection, neither grudge us the promise in flowers here, of the fruits that grow sublime and eternal for us on the other shore. That there is no loss, no disease, no death, in fact no evil, but what is reflection or emination from the mind of man only, the same as the shadow of even a perfect image may for want of proper attitude or light be thrown against the wall in a frightful or grotesque form very un- like its possibly good looking or handsome original. For the conscious, living soul and spirit of the universe makes all things fruitful and impress- es and seals upon them the celestial and creative qualities. He says that we shall be the creators of our own destiny and shall have just what we build here and hereafter. That by virtue of the pro- cess of propagation brought about by means of alli- gation, the sun moon and stars, the land and the waters and all contained therein, every rock and gem, every tree, plant, flower and herb, every creeping, crawling thing and every creature or beast of the field, four footed or otherwise, every thought, feeling, wish, instinct, desire or passion 14 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE has its pro-creative powers and will perpetuate and eternalize its kind. Now it can really make little, if any, difference with us today whether or not God was originally the direct or indirect author and maker of evil. From either standpoint the fact remains that Adam as a child, a later and therefore more imperfect edition of the God-likeness or principle— heir to all of the attributes, qualities and characteristics of the head, or father, was yet lacking in the wisdom which would teach him the consequences to he expected from the harboring of or commis- sion of wilful wrong. That he had been told, 'In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die," had not come home with sufficient and living force to his understanding and consciousness. As a babe in the cradle he had not yet learned the pow- ers and capabilities with which he was endowed for the I and Thou of his existence had not yet reached its majority— his understanding. He did not know that he was himself a crea- tor and that even thought took form, shape and cognizance of things, and when an evil thought or desire did creep along the horizon of his fancy or vision he hugged it with fondness to an ignorant and unsophisticated heart until in time it became LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 15 the serpent that growing into giant proportions afterward turned him and all subsequent mankind from the primitive Eden state, and well nigh eternally lost him ability to even comprehend or aspire to better things. He did not know that thought and will is the parent head or source from which all other things spring and that to will to do wrong is to give shape, form, size and quality to the myriads of devils © who rule and govern our lives; or equally that to will to do right is to build step by step, rung by rung, the magic ladder that eventually leads to perfection and life everlasting. He did not know that heaven or its reverse is daily and hourly built within the tabernacle or portals of our own beings and that there is no word, no promise to any but "Who-soever-will." Hence it was through ignorance, designed or otherwise we may say that man became practically the author and maker of the serpent in Eden, and its myriads of progeny or offspring through-out all the subsequent ages of the world's history; for we © The author of this work has been repeatedly asked if she believed in a personal devil, to which she has invariably answered yes, but not in the horned, hoofed and tailed va- riety taught from orthodox pulpits. 16 TH EWORLD'S HOROSCOPE cannot think without that thought becoming a thing, that is in its turn acted upon by other thoughts and things, will in time rebound upon ourselves and others producing or creating good or evil according to its nature and character— the order, quality, condition or attitude of the mind that gave it birth and the alligations made in the surrounding ether while in the embryonic or pro- pagating stage of its development. If it is of the order known as good, it will seek good and become the author of more good: if of evil it will seek evil and become the author and maker of more evil, for it seems conclusive that we are surrounded by an atmosphere of the accumulated thought, wish and will of ourselves and others, and that mind, individual and universal controls and dominates all things. That no man or thing lives unto itself alone: but all things have their attractions and counter- attractions, their sympathies and antipathies and that sooner or later the proper connections or alli- gations will be made each with its affinity or com- plement and the materializations will be complete. For all things both good and bad gravitate to and form common centers of sustenance and life, being drawn or repelled, according to respective LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 17 and individual composition nature and environ- ment, character or quality of life with which en- dowed and the reception with which met or union formed on arrival, for— like attracts like, and all things come home to welcome and caress. Even the stars and planets of the firmament have a deep and vital interest in and connection with the birth life and death of e\rery living hu- man creature or thing, and the fate of individuals and the rise and fall of mighty empires and nations stand plainly written and manifest by means of universal sympathy and alligation across the starry scroll of the midnight heavens. As the hands of the clock point to the hour of the day, so the finger of fate inscribes and writes with unerring accuracy the signs of the times- prophecy and fulfilment on the face of all things whatsoever, being guided, governed, controlled and directed by the mighty force or spirit, of uni- versal want, sympathy and necessity, and none can dare to measure or tell the depth or extent of responsibility divine, or of human influence indi- vidually and collectively in thus marking the path way and forming and shaping the character and destiny of all things. 18 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE For who dares affirm that to meditate and think with pleasure and relish on any given crime with its attendent chain of horrors, miseries, degradations and heartaches is not to send abroad into the surrounding elements the trustworthy spies and scouts who looking out for and coming by means of mutual sympathy and attraction into contact and alligation with their complements, the kindred minds, tools and con- ditions that make materialization possible is not, to at least, in an abstract sense of the word, become to all practical intents and purposes the author and maker of the crime itself. Or that the reverse is not also true and that righteous, uplift- ing and ennobling thought, wish and will is not by virtue of the same means and processes the living and easily impregnated germ or seed from which spring and grow in proportionate abundance and profusion all the benefits, blessings and pleasures that have ever yet blessed the world of mankind or any part or parcel thereof. " Then let your secret thoughts be fair- They have a vital part, and share In shaping words and moulding fate; God's system is so intricate." CHAPTER II. "Know ye not that I must be about my Father's business.'' And now, without further prefacing or here going into lengthy discussion or dissertation on the elements necessary to constitute what is called the miraculous, how natural law must first become inactive, inert, in fact be set entirely aside and a new order of things instituted and established, we will only say that to the minds of many of the great and learned of all lands and ages it has never been satisfactorily proven that such an occurrence or event as a miracle ever did happen, or that there ever was a day or time in all the ages of the world's history in which such an event or occurrence was more possible than at any other day or time, all things being equal. Such persons believe, and with seeming jus- tice and reason, that natural law only has ruled and governed all things celestial and terrestial 20 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE since the foundations, having been instituted, set in operation and later held to its post of un- swerving duty from which there is no appeal, alteration, variableness or suspension by the om- nipotent fiat, that first called all things seen and unseen into existence. That a greater number of uncommon, unusual and perhaps hitherto unknown and unheard of circumstances and events took place during the life of Jesus than at any other period we con- ceive to be true. But we likewise accept as fundamental truth, the axiom, that like cause will always and at all times produce a like effect, and the divinity of Jesus in that broad, un- exceptional and unqualified sense of the term in which it is so generally accepted and understood to mean and to be, does not of necessity follow, be- cause he is acknowledged and conceded to have been the greatest magician, as well as the greatest and best man that ever lived, and we do not feel it our province or to be incumbent upon us to es- tablish, prove or substantiate either the pro or con on this subject when we affirm that the seemingly- wonderful and miraculous still happen, even in this the twentieth century of the world's history. If Jesus ever existed at all, possessing in his LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 21 person the depth or degree of divinity with which he is accredited and which w T e do not doubt, that he knew and understood the component parts and qualities of every element in nature, was familiar with and master of every underlying and funda- mental law governing creation is undoubtedly true. He knew all causes and effects and how to set in operation the positive and negative poles of all compositions and elements. He knew that every element in nature or creat- ure or thing in existence had its affinity, its com- plement, correspondent and co-equal, its maker, aider, helper, and within certain limitations its per- fector and perpetuator; and that the affinity or kinship that had existed independent from the first, bringing all things material and immaterial into existence by its omnipotent power and love, was still sublimely loving, unlimitedly powerful and eternally creative. That as the work of creation in its strictest and most proper sense of the word could not for logical and well defined reasons be said to have ever had a beginning, so its journey toward per- fection could not, for the same reasons, be ever expected to have an ending. That it came or was evolved into being shortly 22 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE after, if not simultaneous with God himself, and that its line of march was eternal, unending and progressive. Three, if no more, of the attributes with which we credit the deity with being pos- sessed—thought, power and love— presuppose all other hypothesis, for even the most earthly could scarcely imagine a lone and lonely God possessing all the characteristics making it possible to multi- ply or create unused, neither one who having mul- tiplied or created would afterward cease to do so. In fact that the road of progress was eternal and unending as God was himself powerful, loving and creative, and that having come into existence the tendency of all things was, of necessity, onw r ard and upward— no middling grounds, no compromise else loss eternal. That even God may be said to have improved or progressed after effort, for we are assured that his last labor of which we have any record— man— was his most perfect, indeed his crowning piece of handiwork. In fact his own image, a part and parcel of himself. Yet that it was imperfect, in- complete, requiring endless training and growth before won and kept in a path of perpetual and unswerving rectitude and right. LIFE OX AN UPPER PLANE 23 That he also knew the powers, capabilities and possibilities of man, however latent and undeveloped they might be. as well as their force, effect, power and destiny if once aroused, awakened and set in operation, and he sought by every means possible tc d to bring this knowledge within the grasp, comprehension and understanding of every living human crea- ture. He was a progressionist, hence the great teacher, though his pupils have proved such sorry learners. It seems that at the time of Jesus' birth the world of mankind was, with a few possible excep- tions only, in a state that was well nigh, if not it- self, entire and absolute spiritual darkness. Evil hung as a midnight pall over the spiritual eyes of man, and he discerned no light, no good. Body and mind was enveloped or shrouded in a garb of almost impenetrable gloom and hope had spread her pearly wings and departed for realms unknown. Now whether man had ever before been in some other and more superior state of existence and afterward fallen, is not at present the question Ve, however, haven o to believe that man's creation was finished in the Garden of Eden or oth than that by divine knowledge. 24 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE if not design, Adam did just as he was originally intended to do, and that the consequent results was exactly as foreseen if not actually foreor- dained. It seems only reasonable to suppose that Adam must have been created either perfect or imperfect as a spiritual and moral being, and that a perfect spiritual, and moral organization in even man would in the light of both common sense and modern sci- ence imply and mean one in whom all the moral, spiritual and intellectual faculties or organs of the mind held the supremacy— the guiding reins or compass over all the thought, conduct and actions of the individual— and we for one would certainly not expect such a being to break, warp, bend, or in any fashion or manner whatsoever transgress wilfully and maliciously even the most common or ordinary law of the land in which he lived. When tempted to do wrong such a being would not even discuss or debate the matter. Every fibre or faculty of his being would simply and irrevocably cry nay and the discussion would there be ended. Hence it would seem a logical deduction only to say that if Adam transgressed he must have been created fallen, or never yet in the course of his progress or journey ings upward have reached LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 25 a state or condition of being sufficiently advanced or exalted to be endowed with the qualities of mind and heart necessary to enable him to resist evil. That however, some organ or faculty of his be- ing became endowed with some idea of his true nature or destiny long before his organization was complete, even as we know it today is we presume true. That he had, after some manner or fashion, talked to or communed with his maker and had even in the earliest stages of his existence as man, some knowledge of arid possible acquaintance with God. That he had early reached a state of being sufficiently advanced to be enabled to at least per- ceive that which was good. Likewise that having received such knowledge or impression the same had in some instances been retained and made use of to seek to rise, if not to regain some previous and more exalted state or condition of being. That in the beginning "the word was with God, the word was God and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us full of grace and truth.' ' That it was the mediator, the redeemer, the Savior of mankind, and for all practical uses and purposes, it can never make any difference to us 26 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE whether man had fallen or was created so, and neither whether Christ was the first, second or third person in the god-head. The vital part to us is that he came and showed the world the way or forged the last, lost or until then, unfurnished or unacquired link that bound us and all the world as living conscious souls to the great eternal source and well spring of all life and truth. "0 God! I am one forever With Thee by the glory of birth; The celestial powers proclaim it To the utmost bounds of the earth. "I think of this birthright immortal, And my being expands like a rose, As an odorous cloud of incense Around and above me flows. "A glorious song of rejoicing In an innermost spirit I hear, And it sounds like heavenly voices, In a chorus divine and clear. * 'And I feel a power uprising, Like the power of an embryo god; With a glorious wall it surrounds me, And lifts me up from the sod." CHAPTER III. "Alter flowers are of many species, but all worship is one." Now we believe that it is universally conceded, except by the atheist, perhaps, that every child born into the world possesses that faculty, quality, principle or germ called a soul, or the means by virtue of which it is or may become an immortal being. We do not believe however that it necessarily follows that every child born into the world will become an individual, conscious and immortal be- ing and thus live continuously beyond this plane of existence because it was born with the capacity or ability for doing so. It may likewise have been born with a great capacity for music, with those faculties of the brain called time and tune of great, even of abnor- mal size and development. It may feel every fibre of its being, expand 28 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE swell and grow even to bursting under the en- trancing influence of the harmony, melody and rythm of music and hear in exultation and en- chantment the melodies of the saints reverberate and ring transcend antly sweet in all the hidden and inmost recesses of its heart, mind and soul. Again, it may have been born with the germ or capacity for becoming a great mathematician, a great astronomer, a great general, a great states- man, but this latent ability, this uncultivated, un- developed germ or genius is not the thing itself, not the whole of the means or requirements neces- sary for reaching or attaining to any promised goal. Napoleon when he played at war with his school fellows on the ground at Brienne was not the general who afterwards conquered the Alps and mingled the eagles of France with those of her snow-capped craggs and peaks, Who crossed the bridge at Lodi, invaded Egypt and planted the banner of his victorious country in the shadow of the pyramids, or who later escaped from Elba and re-took an empire by the force and power of his mighty genius. The babe in the manger at Bethlehem was not the Christ who walked upon the waters of the Sea LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 29 of Galilee, unbound the chains of death and opened the door of Lazarus' tomb, fed the thousands from the miraculous loaves and fishes, or scatter- ed the thieves in disgrace from the temple. It was not even the carpenter's apprentice or boy who afterwards expounded and defined the knotty problems in law to the most learned and hoary- headed sages in the kingdom of Judea. It does not follow, because a child is endowed at birth with the qualities of mind and heart that render it possible for him with proper culture, training and labor to mount the ladder to fame and greatness along a given line, that he ever will by computation calculate the number and distance of the stars in the firmament; view and take cogniz- ance of the shape, size, form and quality of the worlds among the heavenly bodies; plan, general and fight a great battle, such as Gettysburg, Aus- terlitz and Waterloo; or conceive, speak or write such an article as the Declaration of American Independence. Neither does it, as a natural or unavoidable sequence or consequence follow that he is or ever will become immortal because en- dowed simply with an opportunity, ability or ca- pacity for doing do. He may never see war or hear rumors thereof. 30 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE He may never learn oratory or have the chance or opportunity to make speeches or plan and form- ulate new methods, modes or institutions of gov- ernment. He may never even hear of a Beetho- ven or Mendelssohn, an Archimides, a Gallileo, a Napoleon, Washington, Gladstone, Hamilton or Henry. He may never in all the days of his life see a piano forte or a telescope. The jungles of Africa, the icebound regions of the arctic zones and many other of the more remote and obscure islands of the sea contain countless thousands of such folk even in this ad- vanced age of education and general enlighten- ment. The same can also be said of India, Asia and Australia, to say nothing of the great cities and other densely populated sections in all the socalled civilized countries of the world. How many then that have never yet heard of a Christ. Now we do not blame Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones for not writing like Shakespeare or becom- ing great masters of the arts of war as did Washington, Wellington or Napoleon and should LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 31 "we blame him for not acting like "Christ" is a question the pertinence of which is to say the least highly suggestive. It would certainly be the sheerest folly and nonsense to expect one to do that for which he never had the opportunity, for which no combina- tion, circumstance or chain of happenings or events ever made it possible or opened the way. For "full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air" is unfortu- nately a fact that cannot be denied. Besides all people are not alike, ail are not born equal from a standpoint of intellect, morality, etc., whatever may be our opinion on social and political problems. How many do we meet in our every day life who lack even the common qualities that would render them self-supporting. Intelligence, indus- try, cunning, in short capacity. Many such are continually falling by the wayside. In the midst of plenty they are hungry, while the morally fee- ble and degenerate are in passions storms con- stantly wrecked and lost on the rocks and reefs of debauchery and crime. 32 THE WORLD'S KOROSBOPE Nature first placed her mark or label upon the intellectual giant who rules and governs the affairs and destinies of men by the power and force of some mighty talent or genius, that unquestionably, unmistakably and undeniably distinguishes him from the feeble minded or imbecile unfortunate ) babbles, grunts or whines in voluable, incohe- rent and unintelligible weakness and infirmity, as she has also, as well as man made a difference, a distinction that can never by any possibility be :aken, compared, harmonized or put on an equal footing, one with the other, between the criminally inclined or cultivated and the intelligent, kind- hearted, upright and benevolent man or woman who blesses the world with deeds of righteousness, love and good will to all. Yes, it is undoubtedly true, unless it be with the soul faculty alone that all people are not born on an equality— that is with any certain unvarying graduated, equally balanced or stipulated amount or quantity of any talent, energy, ability or capaci- ty of any kind or quality whatsoever; and though having causes that are according to the learned and scientific, specific, easily defined, understood and governed, the difference is not of a character that is caused or influenced by circumstances and LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 33 surroundings that are foreign and external to the object.* In other words that lalHy or thing called caste ha e if anything to do with sritance c d mor- s many fool and pair »a and nations. 3sed and tdon g circumstances and 'aces of the mig" amble an ate: and lot hear of so much being said, done or wri : ative to the powerful and aristo- crat ate or criminal, his name is also legion. But is it a fact that t a unlike other q is, is inherent in equal y and degree in all mankind, and that • This rule, to be being subject to and in a; the operation and manifests 1 laws which govern pre- natal influence is and suae .ies. 34 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE too, apart from and independent of all other cir- cumstances, events, qualities and influences? Was that German demon Antonio Probst en- dowed at birth with as large a soul or one as great in quality and capacity as the noble Monteflore? Was the soul or germ of immortality as great in the infant Nero as in St. Paul? Can we in the face of every day observation and experience believe that even in soul faculty all men are alike and equally endowed? Is not the numberless crimes and misdeeds, the particulars of which are chronicled in our daily papers evidence to the contrary? Would great souled beings be guilty of these horrible and revolting crimes? But if not equal then what becomes of the future or immortality for the less fortunately en- dowed, for those who possess or derived little of the natural advantages believed in and expected from proper birth and breeding, or are surrounded by to them, insurmountable or overwhelmingly adverse circumstances, surroundings and influ- ences. Must we in spite of all inequalities, disadvan- tages and want of opportunities, all be measured or weighed by the same unvarying or unchanging scale, and without variation, distinction or differ- LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 35 ence be saved or lost according to a previously- fixed and unaltering standard? It would certainly seem that "where little is given little is required' ' should surely have signifi- cance and bearing in this case, if ever in any at all; and that— if our idea of justice and of a just and merciful God be right and consistent— a sin or those acts and conditions by which we could or possibly would lose our conscious soul would be offense against our particular and individual con- sciousness or standard of right only— the doing of that to which our instincts alone, independent of all other peoples' standards or instincts rise in ab- horrence and revolt. In other words the outrage of those princi- ples of right which lives and speaks within us all, and that too, in terms which are intelligible when we will listen and heed, whether we be prince or peasant, and wise or unwise; for though one may never have heard of a Jesus or partaken of the sacrament in any christian temple or tabernacle Christ and the eternal soul lives and rules within when we do right according to the best of our knowledge, instincts and abilities, whether we know it or not. For our highest, our most exalted standard of 36 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE right is of God and is God, and a conscious, intelli- gently working and eternal principle inherent in sufficient degree in all mankind, the outrage only of which will in the very nature of the case dwarf, lose or destroy because never intended or destined to live and grow on any kind of food or culture whatsoever, excepting that of righteousness alone. "Hail to the dawn— the day so long foretold! As lightning,— sudden, swift and gleaming gold,— Beyond the clouds of earth, the mist of years, 'To them that look for him' their Lord appears. To anxious eyes the temple veil is drawn; With all the heavenly host we hail the dawn." CHAPTER IV. * 'Heaven is a palace with many doors, and each may enter in his own way. ' ' Now we do not pretend to be the envoy or advocate, neither the strict adherent of any special and labeled, particular or individual kind of religion, denominational or sectarian. We count no lie holy or sacred though clothed in the language and vesture of a great prophet. Neither any good word profane or lost because spoken through the mouth of a heathen. We rely exclusively upon no church, tradition, creed or scripture as the last ground and infallible guide and rule by which to govern and control the lives and conduct of men, excepting that alone which is written in plain and unmistakable characters upon the tabernacle of every man's heart— his con- science—be it what we call enlightened or other- wise. We consider the heathen mother on the banks of the Ganges feeding her helpless offspring to 38 LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE the crocodiles— an offering to appease the wrath of her impossible and imaginary God— as safe when living up to this, her highest standard and ideal of right, and doing that only for which she has the sanction and approval of her conscience, as we do the most enlightened and consecrated priest or di- vine, in administering the holy sacrament or preaching words of Christly import or meaning to an enlightened and intelligent American or Euro- pean congregation. We accord as much honor and credit relatively speaking to the Koran, Confucius or Buddha for the good they have done as to Moses, St. John or the Bible, and support in neither anything that savors of what we have been taught to believe wickedness and dishonor, We accept these as teachers if they teach, helpers when they aid or help, but never as un- questionable and infallible guides, masters or authorities. We stake our all on the Divine presence or principle inherent in the souls of men, in His eternal word which is truth and love as it speaks and becomes manifest in the faculties He has given and the works He has done. We see His face in natures perfect handiwork and hear His LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 39 voice in the deep and silent recesses of our own soul as it says ' 'Peace be still" and know that I am the living God. We feel Him in the inspiration of the heart, worship Him at the same shrine as Moses and Jesus, drink at the same fount and are filled with the living waters of the same imperishable and eternal truth. We love and trust, but never fear Him; call him Father and Creator, not judge or king; and think Him capable of running this uni- verse and taking care of every creature within its boundless domain without our help or interfer- ence. We believe that He is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent in spirit, as in space, as near to the heart and soul of man as matter to their sense, as feet and hands to their bodies, and that He still inspires and communes with men as much as when He talked with Moses on the mount or fell as the Holy Ghost on the seventy apostles at Antioch. That the canon of revelation is not closed nor God exhausted and never will be so long as there are men, angels and demi-gods to inspire, im- prove and progress. That the word of God is not confined to any written or printed book, nor bound up in or limit- 40 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE ed by the utterances of any theological or meta- physical writer or prophet, past or present. That we "lie in the lap of immense intelli- gence which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth," and that to those who will listen and heed, lay aside their garb of self en- forced ignorance and selfishness that keep them earth bound and in spiritual bondage and work for themselves and others according to the Divine revelations within, rather than instructions from without, the word of God is being perpetually revealed and they led "through the green pas- tures and by the still waters" to that goal of all human souls which is oneness with the Great Eternal First Cause— the source of all life, all light, all wisdom and all power We believe also that all men are the sons of God manifest in the flesh, but acknowledge the man Jesus as God manifest in the flesh on the greatest, noblest, grandest scale that ever was man before or since. That he was the first thoroughly obedient and fully developed Son of God, and our wise, kind, loving and compassionate friend and elder brother. That he possessed in the most superlative de- gree all those qualities and perfections that are LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 41 the special attributes of the Father, and lived and died the noblest, grandest life and death of which we have any knowledge or record. The sweetest flower that ever budded and bloomed from the plant of human life, furnishing to man the noblest example, the highest incentive, the most exalted ideal of a godly life that was ever conceived of or dreamed about. That all of his characteristics as shown forth by a life of unexampled purity and self sacrifice was in the highest sense of the word the only begotten Son of the Father, and begotten only of the Father, and that he then, now and forever stands the right hand of the Father the noblest representative both of God and man the world has ever seen. But we consider it also a fact that eighteen hundred years have been well nigh lost to the world so far as spiritual improvement and prog- ress is concerned because of the limitations, the narrow minded views and conceptions placed upon the word and meaning of Christ, for there is a finer, a grander and a truer concept of the divine incarnation than has yet been taught by church or creed, priest or divine, namely— that all men are the Sons of God manifest in the flesh, and that 42 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE Christ was not the name of merely one man Jesus whose individual sonship was, however, complete and perfect, but of a sonship that is universal and equally in quality, if not quanity inherent in all mankind. A sonship as entire, absolute and in- clusive as God is one indivisable and eternal, and that the relationship belongs by birthright to each and every individual member of the whole human family. Jesus of Nazareth w T as a man local and his- toric, the son of Mary and Joseph only, yet one in whom the Christ mind or quality was supremely manifest. Himself material, physical, temporal, yet one in whom the Christ principle was of ex- cessive size and development. In short, God man- ifest in the flesh on the grandest scale the world had ever seen, the which so filled him with the Godly qualities and attributes that he became both through inclination and culture, practically one with the Father and performed the so-called miraculous in his name and by his power. But could not all mankind do the same if living the life that he lived the life of perfect justice and mercy, the life of purity and love? That love which is essential, vital, eternal and intelligent. The life of that love which inspired by knowledge LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 43 and faith spiritual and guided by wisdom saves here and hereafter. Now Jesus spent much of his time in prayer and meditation on the bosom of God, on the mountain and in the wilderness, studying and affirming in his own life and being the power of the Father— the Christ within— which enabled him to overcome all difficulties and transcend all weak- nesses and was at all times going diligently about his Father's business only preaching the kingdom of God at hand— within— and he thereby shed upon the world in greater degree than ever did man, the influence of that Christ, or Godly faculty or quality that awakened, taken hold of and lived in the minds and hearts of men becomes the redemp- tive power that saves. For the law of salvation or redemption through the love and example, by the life, thought and conduct of another is true in the higher world of the spirit as it is on the lower and more earthly plane of our existence. Hence he is Redeemer when we live according to the life he lived, to the example he set, and open our minds 44 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE and hearts to the redeeming power and influence of the Christ which he represented and personified and we accede heartily to that beautiful anthem, "All Hail the Power of Jesus Name, Let Angels prostrate fall, Bring forth the Royal diadem and crown Him Lord of all." "AH, Hail the power of Jesus name, Let angels prostrate fall, Bring forth the Royal diadem And crown Him Lord of all." CHAPTER V. "He who in his own soul perceives the supreme soul in all beings, and acquires equanimity toward them all, attains the highest bliss." Now we cannot if we would, and would not if we could, narrow the divine incarnation to a single outward manifestation or expression how- ever grand and complete that may have been. God is incarnate in all nature and all there is or ever will be is but the visible garment of God. But we conceive the divine expression is in greatest degree manifest through man because taught that he was created in the likeness or image of the Father. That the breath of life was blown into his nostrils and he alone of all cre- ated things became a living soul. Just what the special and particular compo- sition, nature or quality of a living soul is, it is not our purpose to here attempt or seek to analyze,, define or explain. 46 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE As before stated, we believe it is universally conceded, at least, by the Christian world, to be a part of God and that part of man which is or may become immortal, and accept it as a self- evident truth that man possesses some property or faculty of this kind or character, the which it follows if true, that with the arousing or full awakening of said godly faculty or quality, the unfolding or upbuilding of such divine or spirit- ual consciousness that man may become what he really is when developed, and what Jesus became —a lesser God— however much this seemingly daring statement may be doubted and haggled over, or the evidence of its truth obscured, hid- den or even entirely lost sight of in the grosser material complications and rubbish of our exist- ence. For if Jesus was the only Son, the only be- gotten of the Father, the only one in whom the God or Christ principle was inherent or manifest, how absurd then to hold him up as an example or pattern for those who have not the advantages to be derived from the inheritance of family qualities and characteristics by which they might hope or even be expected to rise to his eminence. LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 47 As well talk about flying without wings, walking without feet and legs or seeing without eyes. We cannot grow a faculty quality or princi- ple unless we were born with a possibility for doing so. Without some germ or seed from which it might under proper conditions be expected to spring and to grow, and granting the existence of a soul in one man it must be true that it is equally existent in all, and that it is the germ or seed from which will spring and grow the Christ or oneness with the Father in all me:?, when al- lowed to expand and develop by proper training and cultivation. Neither does this deduction in any manner lower or degrade the divine dignity or Sonship of Jesus, the first normal, perfectly obedient and fully developed Son of God, though it does un- cover or unmask the potential Christ-hood of the whole human family. For not in one sense or instance merely was the word made flesh, but as an established and universal law governing the creation of all things, and was as entire and absolute in the creation of Adam, as in the birth of Jesus, in each case of which the God or Christ was manifest in the same quality if not in the- same degree. 48 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE Divinity implies and means both involution and evolution. A possibility for all existence was first contained in the divine involvement of a power or ability by or through the potency of which it might later evolve or give birth and ex- ternal expression to such pre-existing internal involution, and the evolvement or external mani- festation of this divine internal involution was the conception and birth of all creation. The word made flesh, each atom of which was equal one with the other to the extent or degree of its completeness, which was characterized by beauty, harmony, sanity, power, utility, etc., and all alike equal in their relationship to the parent source from which they sprang. Hence the suffering, pain or misery of the humblest creature in existence, touches the divine heart in as vital a spot and with as much com- passion and pity, because as near to, as that of the greatest and grandest moral or intellectual giant ever created. The divine power or ability to evolve or create is a quest that is perpetual and eternal and is characterized by creations as boundless and varied in nature, character, quality and descrip- tion as God is omnipotent and omniscient, to all LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 49 of which he is equally Father, Creator and Friend. He hears the ravens when they cry and gives them daily bread, " Behold the lillies toil not neither do they spin" while to man, that King or Prince of creation, his representative and vice- regent on earth to whom was given precedence over all other created things, he is nearer than feet or hands. His greatest, most perfect and normal ex- pression through man, to whom he has given every necessary power and ability, yet to whom he is not any respector of person. It might well, in view of the foregoing state- ments on this subject, be asked, did Jesus forgive sin? To which we would without hesitation or doubt answer yes, but not in the sense generally accepted to be the facts in the case. Not by the destruction, hiding or wiping away of sin by any unrestrained, ungoverned or uncontrolled arbitra- tion or authority, nor yet by the power or magic of his individual personality, however mighty or great we may concede that to have been. A sin once committed will remain as such forever. There is within our humble knowledge and information no law human or divine by or 50 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE through the operation of which a wrong can ever become a right or cease to exist as a wrong. The consequences of a sin, its natural fol- lower or sequel, which is penalty, can, however, be suspended or withheld by and through the inter- cession or interference of divine love and power. Not by wiping out of the offense, nor by the set- ting of it aside and remembering it no more, either one of which suppositions is as false and illogical, if not utterly impossible as the other; and neither of which will upon close examination or inspection bear the search light of illuminating and unprejudiced truth. Jesus forgave or was a means of forgiveness, by the out -growing, overflowing or overshadowing of sin by the power and virtue of that love divine, the Christ, or God for which he was a fit channel or means of communication and egress. By the raising or causing to be raised by the side of wrong a right of sufficient power and magnitude to overpower, overwhelm, in fact over- throw the strength, ability or influence of sin to damn and destroy. In which view of the case Jesus may be said to have forgiven sin. To have borne our sorrows and carried our burdens, to have been in fact the LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 51 the scape goat for the sins of the v/orld; for no burden or penalty for wrong can ever fall while held in abeyance or suspension by the over-mas- tering power and influence of that right which is all powerful and eternal knowing no variable- ness or change. That .right which he repre- sented and personified, and which raised at the side of wrong by genuine sorrow and repentance could never by any possibility lose its power and efficacy to heal and to save. A significant proof of which hypothesis is that Jesus never forgave any but the sorrowful and repentent. Then only responsive and sym- pathetic chords met. Deep called unto deep and behold the Christ arose in man, resurrected as it were from the dead to inspire, to bless and to save. Is Jesus still powerful to save? No, because with the physical death he ceased to exist as mediator between God and man. His work was finished, his labors ended, but his example, the brightest star in the constellation of righteous- ness pointing us the way to heaven through the Christ within, which is spirit divine, undying and eternal— that even the cross could not affect nor all the powers and demons of death and hell 52 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE overcome or prevail against— will live forever the loftiest, spiritual altitude to be attained; that sought for and patterned after will live and grow eternal in the souls hearts and minds of men to their redemption, salvation, and life everlasting beyond this vale of sorrow and tears in that hap- py and eternal home of the soul with God and the angels, where peace and joy only will blossom and bloom forever nourished and sustained from that fount of unfailing supply, the bosom and heart of the all powerful and exhaustless infinite. "Seek not the spirit if it hold Inexorable to thy zeal ; Trembler do not whine or chide— Art thou not also real?" CHAPTER VI. "Remember man, the universal eause acts not by par- tial, but by general laws." That Jesus did not die a sacrifice for the sins of the world, or purchase any salvation for man by the shedding of his innocent and inoffensive blood on Calvary, we believe to be an assertion founded on and supported by common sense, rea- son and scripture. Too long has the world listened to that bur- den of song, sermon and prayer, " Jesus paid it All" which is an insult to the intelligence of man and a libel and travesty on the character and attributes of God. One man cannot live for another, neither can he die for him, in the common acceptation of the term in this particular instance. Even if the spiritual death or eternal dam- nation of man is a possibility, and was a require- ment, or assessment by the Creator as a punish- ment or penalty to pay or atone for the violation 54 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE of divine law, we submit that it would be diffi- cult indeed for an average mind to perceive how the physical suffering and death in this world of another, and that other too, a Jesus who had never in all the days of his life transgressed a law, and could therefore not fall legally and right- fully beneath even the shadow of its penalty, could by any possibility ever be used in substi- tution for, or the discharge of an obligation of such a character and thus contracted or incurred. Besides, even if it is true that man was a transgressor and had rightfully fallen under the weight of divine displeasure and penalty, surely our Father could never have been angered to the point of blood thirstiness. Surely he could never by any means whatsoever have been induced to commit or cause to be committed a murder in the shedding of the innocent blood of even this one only, though it were for the salvation of an entire world. Surely the qualities which would be thus indicated do not belong to the Almighty Maker and Ruler of this universe. But is it true? Is it a reasonable and a de- monstrable fact that there was ever any debt to pay, much less one of the kind and character here indicated, or that any body ever was or LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 55 would be damned in default of such payment ? Adam certainly never, within our knowledge and understanding of the history of this case or his own either, we can but presume, bargained for or in any manner or fashion whatsoever pur- chased or bought any part or interest in heaven, ® If he ever owned or enjoyed any such possession it must undoubtedly have been conferred upon or given to him gratuitously at his creation, in which case it is only reasonable to suppose he was unconsulted, as well as a silent and uncon- scious partner during the progress of the entire proceeding or transaction, settling or bestowing such an estate or possession upon him. Now, the question that naturally rises for answer on this subject, in the minds of the investigating or inquiring are these. For what does man owe? From what did he fall, or what was the Eden in which Adam lived previous to this traditional fall? Was it heaven? Which if answered in the affirmative again comes the inquiry, did Adam © In our use of the term heaven in connection with the story of Eden, we mean it in that sense only which has ref- erence to the place, state or condition of purity or holiness in which Adam is aupposed to have lived previous to the fall, 56 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE possess heaven? Was Adam, (who is said to have been the one who contracted this much- talked of debt, and thereby placed a mortgage on his own soul and that of all mankind, because of and through their relationship to him from then on down all the succeeding ages to the very end of time itself), ever in heaven? Did he know that he was created or born even a prospective heir to it? Now in Eden, the locality or place of Adam's residence or abode, we are told there grew a tree of the knowledge of both good, and evil, from which Adam was forbidden to eat. Also that there was a tree of life growing midway in the garden from which he was likewise kept care- fully excluded, lest, he partake thereof and liye forever. One of these statements affirm the ex- istence in Eden of evil, or at least its instigator or inciter, while the other hints at and even sug- gests the possibility of death. We are further left to infer by the presence of the tree, that evil had an existence previous to this garden of Eden incident, and was either still in existence or known to be an element that might at any time, or could upon demand, come into existence, as which, according to the story, LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 67 it at a later date did do. Also that there was a possibility of Adam eating of the tree of life and thereby living forever, from which the inference is obvious that without such eating he would surely die; that death would sooner or later in- vade the realm in which he lived and claim him as its own. From which view of the case it would plainly appear that both evil and death not only could, but in all probability would, some- time enter there, in which case we can but infer that Eden was not heaven. In either event howev r Eden was heaven or not, does it not follow as a natural sequence of the entire affair or transaction, as related in Holy Scripture that God alone was responsible for Adam's transgression, because the author and maker of any and all circumstances or causes whatsoever leading up to and finally pro- ducing the whole grand catastrophe? Did he not put Adam in a place where he un- doubtedly knew there was not only a possibility but even a great probability, that both evil and death would enter and claim him a victim to their united miseries and terrors? Was he not the creator of an organization in Adam that made it possible for him to lie, and to steal or otherwise err, as 58 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE well as this Eden or heaven also, with all of its delights, and temptations that Adam was neither intellectually or morally able to withstand, and that not only could, but did assail him in the character of trees, serpents, women, etc., for, how evil, or a tree of even the knowledge only, of evil could exist there, unless brought into being by God, and that too (our inference drawn from the sequel) for express use and purpose in Adam's case, it is past our ability to comprehend or con- ceive. God must have been the author and maker of the tree of life also, but in this instance he showed plainly and conclusively that it was not his wish or intention that man should eat of it and thereby live forever, for he took measures to prevent it and sent Adam forth from the garden; by which act of cutting him off from the tree God made it impossible for Adam to partake of its benefits and thereby live. Adam was from all accounts plainly in a state of death any way, because it was not life that was eternal, "And now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for- ever: therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden." But if evil was an element LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 59 that was not wanted in the garden of Eden, might not God have dealt likewise with Adam as regard- ed the tree of knowledge? Are we to suppose that God was incapable of running things as he at first wished for and in- tended to do? May we not with as much reason believe that being mighty in the first place to bring this universe and all contained therein into being, he was likewise and equally mighty to run it as he chose, and that all things was just as wished for and intended to be, all theological dogma to the contrary notwithstanding? But what are we under such a chain of cir- cumstances or reasonings to do with this traditional or fabled fall of man? It seems undoubtedly demonstrable and there- fore conclusive, that not only did evil first have existence in Eden, but that it was brought into being— or at least the causes leading up to and later producing it— and knowingly too, we can but imagine, by no less a personage than God himself. Likewise that as there was a possibility for eternal life in Eden, there must also have been a possibil- ity of death, of which condition God was likewise the author and maker. Surely then it was not heaven, surely not that 60 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE place of absolute purity and eternal life pictured to us as the celestial abode, in which no evil nor death, or possibility thereof could ever enter. But will some learned theologian rise to tell us if Eden was not heaven, th^n for what does man owe? For what did Adam contract a debt, or what was the precious state from which he is said to have fallen? For, can the mind of mortal man conceive, or grasp the idea, of how he could possibly owe a debt for something he had never yet acquired, contracted for, purchased or otherwise possessed. "Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new; You who are weary of sorrow and sinning, Here is a beautiful hope for you, A hope for me and a hope for you. "All the past things are past and over, The tasks are done, and the tears are shed. Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover; Yesterday's wounds, which smarted and bled, Are healed with the healing which might has shed LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 61 "Here are the skies all burnished brightly; Here is the spent earth all reborn; Here are the the tired limbs springing lightly To face the sun and and share with the morn In chrism of dew, and the cool of dawn. "Every day is a fresh begining, Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain, And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning, And puzzles forcasted, and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again. ' ' CHAPTER VII "Shrine of the mighty! Can it be that this is all remains of thee?" According to all accounts, Eden was certain- ly upon this earth and, Adam also, from the very moment of his creation, for "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground" — "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden and there he put the man whom he had formed," and later "So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of Life." Now, the mystery is what became of this garden of Eden after man's expulsion from it? Where now, is that place of the cherubim and the flaming sword that keeps its jealous guard over the tree of life? Did perhaps the sinking of the doomed and lost Atlantis, carry to the bottom of the great Atlantic this garden of Eden, with its tree of life and other benefits LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 63 and delights? Might it be possible, that the cherubim and flaming sword of Edenic fame, has since the terrible catastrophe that sunk one of earths great continents, lain prostrate on the bed of that mighty ocean? Or, may it be that it still exists somewhere on this globe so many times circumnavigated and explored, and that it may yet be found in some hitherto hidden or undiscovered nook or corner of earths remotest seas? May the North or South poles hold in re- serve this mightiest and greatest of all discover- ies, for some modern Columbus daring enough to penetrate their dangerous seas, and by success in such enterprise, set forever at rest the important question of geographical location for man's first and primitive dwelling place? Such suppositions or suggestions for the so- lution of this problem may all seem quite pos- sible and even plausible, but nevertheless they are far fetched and very improbable. It is very possible, and altogether probable, that man found his earliest home in some lux- urious tropical country of the known world, surrounded by all the rich and varied life and scenery, vegetable and animal with which such 64 THE WORLD'S HOROSBOPE regions abound, but that any signs or marks still exist, by which we may ever read the his- tory of that dim and misty past, or again, locate the long since lost and forgotten land marks of that primitive country, is exceedingly improb- able. The story as told in Genesis is doubtless in many instances and senses of the word, a true and authentic account or history of the creation, but clothed as it is in the fervid language and imagery so characteristic of oriental fiction, we consider and submit it as absurd and misleading in its statement of what may possibly be very much facts. Facts too, that are vastly interest- ing and vital, to the entire world of mankind. The story throughout, partakes too strongly of the allegorical we are convinced, to be accept- ed soberly and sanely, as an absolutely accurate, correct, and minutely truthful, narrative of that greatest of all events. Its figure of speech is as hard to accept and believe literally, and un- questioningly, as that which declares that Jonah lived three days in the belly of a whale, or that Elijah went to heaven in a chariot, and others of like character related by inspired prophets in the Holy Scriptures. LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 65 Now, geologically speaking, the six days of creation, was undoubtedly ages, ages too in which millions of years perhaps, as we count time, came and went their weary way unherald- ed and unnumbered: except in the calendar of the mighty God; while man, in fact, all creation was being slowly and gradually evolved, and brought forth stage by stage, and step by step, from the bosom of the creative infinite, the head and fountain source of all supply, of all cause and effect. Millions of years possibly, elapsed from the time when incipient, or rudi- mentary man began first to germinate and grow in the silent recesses of the bosom of nature- God,— to that time when he stood forth as we know him today, triumphant, and victoriously above and beyond the dark and mystic found- ations of his own existence. Doubtless his history reaches far back into a primitive world, peopled with animals, even monsters perhaps, who were or became his an- cestors. But can it affect man's status today, because perchance a million years since some four footed and hairy bodied progenitor of his race lived houseless, roaming naked and unkempt through the jungles of some primeval forest 68 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE finding subsistence on nuts and fruit that grew wild in abundance, though uncultivated and un- titled ? And can that fact, if such it be, in any manner lessen or degrade the gigantic labors of the great creative first cause or principle back of all things. Can it make any difference, whether God created the world in six days, or six ages of one million years each? Or, are we forced to believe that this universe and all it contains, came into a full blown and flourishing existence as do boom towns in new territories— between two suns so to speak— in order to believe in God and his creative powers? Or, are we to suppose that having done this six days labor, that deity rest- ed for all the remainder of eternity: or that be- cause man stood forth on the sixth day of crea- tion, the proudest and most imperial being be- neath heavens shining sun, that his creation was finished? That he was perfect, because his maker pronounced him good? "And God saw ■everything that he had made, and behold it was very good." Must we believe, that when man had reached that promising stage is his progress and development, where he could think and reason, LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 67 ponder and long, weigh and compare, judge and pronounce sentence, that his creation was com- plete? That progress had folded her industrious hands in idleness forevermore, and yet that man fell, thereby dishonoring his maker and ruining himself? Can the mind of the sane, comprehend how either a perfect, or imperfect being, could fall as herein taught? Viewed from a phrenological standpoint, Adam must undoubtedly have been endowed at his creation, with a mental and moral organiza- tion as well as a physical one, and have been wise or foolish, good or bad, according to said organization and makeup. He must have been possessed of an organization in which some one or more, of his mental faculties or qualities was supreme, and held the guiding reins or compass over all his other faculties and qualities; and hence over all his thought, conduct and actions. We must suppose that he had brains, as well as hands and feet, or any other physical necess- ity, and that having brains they must have been of some particular and individual kind, character and quality; that in their turn became parent to 68 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE a mind of corresponding kind, character and quality. We can not imagine a man living and act- ing without brains of some kind. Neither one who possessed of brains, would not produce thought of some kind or quality, that in its turn would be manifested and shown forth by a con- duct and action of corresponding kind and quality. In other words, a conduct and action in exact proportion and accordance with the order, size, form and quality, of the brain of the individual who gave such conduct or action birth. An idiot would not do less, a wise man could do no more; and to grant or concede that Adam had a brain, would undoubtedly be to grant and concede also, that according to the character and workings of that brain, would have been the character of his conduct and ac- tions in life, which concession would bring those of us who cling to the story of the fall of man, into a very perplexing and possibly em- barassing situation or dilemma. For certainly Adam was not the author and maker of his brains, any more than he was the author and maker of his eyes and mouth, his lungs and heart, or any other part of his physi- LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 69 cal organization and makeup; and if not the author and maker of his brain could he in any sense of the word be responsible for its outward manifestation or expression— his conduct. Now, it is not our intention to write a phrenological treatise, or attempt to go into any- exhaustive or scientific, discussion or exposition, on the character and workings of the various properties and faculties of the human brain. How one faculty or set of faculties, may and do dominate, rule and govern, the more subordinate ones, and how that quality or thing called mind is finally evolved or produced from such work- ings of the brain. We believe it pretty general- ly accepted as a fact, long since demonstrated and settled beyond a doubt, or question, by such eminent and scientific authorities as Hux- ley, Fowler, Spurgeon, etc., that man's mental construction or makeup— his brain— is the mo- tive power which rules and governs every thought, feeling, wish, instinct, desire, passion and action of his life, and that according to the shape, size, form and quality, of his brain, will be the mind to which it gives birth, and that in its turn will rule and govern every thought, 70 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE feeling, wish, instinct, desire, passion and action of the man's life. "His dwelling 'mid the strength of rocks Shall ever stand secure ; His Father shall provide his bread; His water shall be sure." CHAPTER VIII "In other words, we are asked to believe that God proved his prescience and power by reversing those very laws which he had framed for cosmic rule. ' ' i The story of the fall of man is, we presume, as old practically as man himself, as old at least as his written history, and has been handed down to us through all the ages as a fact, that accounted for all of man's infirmaties, short- comings, weaknesses, etc. When he has been erring, he has been told that it was because he was born in sin; that he was a vile creature of the dust, fallen from some high and holy estate. That previous to this fall, he had lived in a state of purity and innocence with God; but since which time every thought of his mind, every desire and instinct of his heart, had been evil, and that no good within him lived. Now man's imperfections may, indeed, account for all of his weaknesses and errors, for all of his short comings and failings, but their existence, is certainly no absolute or incontest- ible proof that he is wholly and altogether bad. 72 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE any more than it is proof that he was ever wholly and altogether good; or furthermore, there has ever been even the shadow of a change, or difference in the inherent and consti- tutional nature and makeup of man, mental, moral, or physical, from the day of his creation to the present time. Haven't we the Bible in support and corobo- ration of the fact, that the first man stole, and the second one commited murder? On the other hand, is there not an abund- ance of evidence to prove that during every age of man's earthly existence, and history, that there has lived people of grand, noble, and God like qualities and character. People who in spite of numerous favorable and even well nigh compelling circumstances and surroundings, could not and would not have been induced to commit any wicked, cruel or dishonorable deed, much less either of those capital crimes called murder and theft. Now the first of the these primitive criminals was Adam, whom the Lord had called good, while the second was Cain, his son. Would it not be strange, indeed, if one of these men could steal and the other one commit murder, unless LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 73 they were created or bom with those elements paramount in their natures and characters which make such crimes possible? Is not the fact that they did possess such elements of character in- contestibly proven by the commission of the crimes themselves? Such traits could certainly not have come by chance or from the accident of birth and conse- quent inheritance of character and quality in both cases, at any rate, neither from previous bad example or training. Adam at least must have been an exception in this instance. It is all very well, perhaps quite to the point, and therefore admissible, to say that Cain inher- ited his evil tendencies from Adam, his father, or from Eve, his mother, or even from both of them; but the vital and, therefore, most interest- ing question at issue in the present contempla- tion of the subject is, from whom did Adam and Eve inherit their tendency to evil, their ability to sympathise with and commit wrong. They at least had no precedent, no previous bad example, or training. God alone had been their sole com- panion and friend, as well as maker, until the serpent crept in. We think it can scarcely be denied that Adam 74 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE was created either perfect or imperfect; that his mental and moral organization was either com- plete or incomplete; and that according to the measure or degree of completeness or incomplete ness of such mental and moral organization, would have been all the thought, conduct and action of the man. Neither that if he was complete and perfect, that his must have been an organization in which all the moral and intellectual faculties was supreme, and held the guiding and controll- ing influence over all the man's thought and con- duct for good only, or vice versa. Now, as we do not blame our children if they happen to have blue eyes instead of black ones, or that one is a musician, while the other is a mechanic, or in any manner whatsoever consider them as responsible for the peculiarities of con- stitution and temperament with which they were at birth endowed; as even with our small idea of justice the kleptomaniac is exonerated by law because he is in no sense of the word held as responsible or to blame for the possession of such unfortunate characteristics, can or must we believe in a God more exacting and less just. Can it have been that God was mistaken or LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 75 disappointed in the nature and character of His handiwork when finished? What would we think if a man who is believed in and accepted as an enlightened and thorough- ly skillful and competent architect or mechanic laid out the plans and proceeded to build what he intended for and believed to be a house, if, after the completion and passing of his judgment upon the structure as a perfect house it turned out or proved to be a ship? Would we think the man's judgment was sound when he built and afterwards pronounced such structure a perfect house? Would we not be perfectly justified in thinking there was something wrong with the man, as well as with what was intended to be the house? Can we conceive of an all powerful and om- nipotent creator laboring under a disappointing and embarrassing condition or situation of affairs exactly the parallel or counterpart of this one? Is it possible to believe that God made man perfect and yet he fell? That after every part of man's organization w r as made complete, and perfect, in some certain and particular way in order to insure a finished job of some certain and particular character or kind, it turned out to 76 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE be exactly the reverse, something entirely differ- ent from and utterly unlike what his maker had originally wished for and intended it to be. Is it not thoroughly nonsensical to run behind that long since threadbare and perfectly transpar- ent subterfuge that Adam |was complete and per- fect only as man? Is it not evident enough that he was not God? Very evident, indeed, that his measure of completeness, if such it might be called, was limited, incomplete, and therefore im- perfect. And if he was not God what else could he have been but man, and if man what else but imperfect; for does not perfection belong to God alone? Is it not plain that if Adam transgressed it was because he was created with an organization that made such transgression not only possiple, but a certain result of such organization? Now, according to the free moral agency of man theorists, man was perfect, but could go wrong if he chose to do so, which is exactly equivalent to saying he could fly if he only had wings, for if Adam was perfect could he have been imperfect also ? Could two entireties occu- py the same space at the same time? Dear reader, ask yourself if you could, with LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 77 your own free will and consent, commit that crime which is most repellant, most repugnant, most horrifying to every thought, feeling and instinct of your entire nature and being; that crime for which you have the least inclination and the greatest consternation and horror, and why? Is it not because there is nothing in your nature to sympathize with, or to aid and abet you in even the contemplation of such a crime? Or if, on the other hand, it is not easy to do those things which you like, to which all your being responds and gives merry and willing assent. Again, that if evil and good had been evenly balanced in Adam's constitution and make-up, could there, in all human reason, ever have been any variation or change whatsoever, either one way or the other. If it is possible that with a pound on each end of the scales, one end could ever outweigh or overbalance the other. We see but half the causes of our deeds, Seeking them wholly in the outer life, And heedless of the encircling spirit world, Which, though unseen, is felt, and sows in us All germs of pure and world-wide purposes.' * CHAPTER IX. But compelled to do battle for existence; to strive with the beasts of the field, with disease, with hnnger, with the power of the elements, he grew in strength and wisdom became in very truth a lord of creation. ' ' Now we feel perfectly conscientious and, therefore, justifiable, in stigmatizing the theologi- cal dogma of the fall of man, as a myth or fable; a creature of the imagination only, born of ages of ignorance and superstition. But, should we grant as a possibility that Eden was some very superior and exalted state of being, from which it was possible for Adam to fall, either through ignorance, wickedness or otherwise, and thereby lose his individual right to residence there, would seem concession enough; but to say, likewise, that he incurred or contract- ed a debt for all mankind, and for all time to come, that could only be paid in the physical suf- fering and death here, of one who is not claimed to have fallen even heir to this terrible penalty, but on whose death and consequent payment of this debt we have only to believe and trust in for our LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 79 salvation, accepting him as our Savior, the great and innocent substitute and sacrifice of our wrong, is, we confess, to us another one of those so-called religious truths that our imagination is not fer- tile enough to grasp and understand. If Adam did perchance go foraging in the garden of the Lord, and steal an apple or some- thing of like character that had been forbidden to him, and thereby prove himself individually un- worthy of living there, does it not seem incredi- ble that the penalty for such an offense could fall also, and for all time to come, on all the count- less millions of mankind yet unborn; and, fur- thermore incredible that not only could such pen- alty for such an offense, fall upon and expel Adam and all these countless millions of unborn hu- manity from Eden, but that it could also bring into existence or being a horrible and eternal hell (fire and brimstone, or something similar,) for their everlasting torture and torment, unless, in- deed some innocent substitute or sacrifice could be found, and which even then would not be effica- cious or binding, unless he was accepted and acknowledged to be such. That some one must certainly suffer an eternity of torment and punishment any way, because, all 80 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE are not alike able to believe in this atonement story. Is not such a picture fit for the contemplation and enjoyment of devils only? Can such a pano- rama of cruelty, and injustice, be harmonized or reconciled with an idea of a just, merciful and loving God. For, be it remembered that every one born into this so-called vile and wicked world is neither a liar, a thief, or a murderer, and could, therefore, surely not be deserving of an eternity of torment, simply because they had happened to the great misfortune of being ushered as sentient beings, into a world where such conditions, exist and that, too, let us remark in passing, without either their con- sent or volition in the matter; besides being possi- bly encumbered likewise, with a mental organiza- tion that make it utterly impossible for them to believe as they might otherwise have done. Is it strange that with such teachings man should become in great measure both coward and infidel? Is a man any more responsible for his particular belief than he is for the particular color of his hair and eyes, or that he is five feet tall instead of six? But, can we grant even the possibility of such LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 81 an absurdity as Adam's fall, and hence, Jesus' death as a sacrifice or atonement for sin? Let us look again at the garden of Eden and into the primitive state of man. A lovely picture unrolls and extends itself be- fore our eyes; a strange scene in an immeasurably far of time. Here it is that Love, and Necessity, those mightiest of all mighty attributes born into blessed and inseparable wedlock, from the un- fathomable bosom of boundless infinity, are seen to hang in pensive, brooding lullaby over a fair but lonely world. Here it is also, that Progress, the great and noble first-born child of this happy union, now that his first and mighty labor is finished, has folded his industrious hands to rest and wait in silence and meditation his next great call to action. A fair, but lonely world, wrapped in the gold- en mantle of a fair and early morning's rising sunbeams. Innumerable fleecy clouds coming from the unknown distance beyond, glittering with all the bright and charming colors of the rainbow, float slowly and phantom-like across the majestic vault of the blue tinted heavens, and disappear again in the quivering morning light. A beauti- ful meadow, clothed in a garment of emerald 82 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE green, spotted here and there with flowers of many and brilliant hues and colors, stretches down a valley at one edge of which a silvery little stream winds its merry way in and out, around the base of the opposite mountain wall ; while in the near distance on the other hand, is seen the dark and ragged outline of a luxuriant forest growth, that with its stately sentinels— strayers from the parent fold— scattered here and there in towering solitude and grandeur over the face of the valley, and even to the waters edge, seems worthy guards over this bright and peaceful scene. "A great unity sunk in harmonious tran- quility.' ' A light breeze stirs the surface of the waters in the little stream, and sighs gently through the rank foliage of the by-standing trees, stirring the leaves and slightly waving its branches; then loses itself once more in a faint murmuring of content among the blue bells and daises of the valley, who raise their winsome little heads in joy and gladness to the welcoming caress of its refreshing and ever invigorating presence. The vision extends itself, becomes more plain LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 83 and we look again, more intently this time, for something is happening. A transformation is taking place. Progress has raised his mighty hands and, behold! the songs of the mocking bird and nightingale is heard in sweet and plaintive melody, upon the mornings trembling balmy air. Little fish, all purple and silver and gold, swim to and fro in the brooklets laughing waters, while in the valley and on the mountain side the jack rabbit, the deer and the elk, are seen to sport in merry, gleesome play, or raise their trim and shapely heads in listening attitude, suspicious at some faint or unfamiliar sound, then run for cover beneath the shelter of some near by rock, tree or shrub, coveted as protection from intru- sion and possible danger. From the darkened mountain caverns is seen also, to peep and peer in watchful vigilance, the shaggy heads and piercing eyes of strange and ferocious looking beasts, as they take rapid survey of the peaceful valley below, then dart once more from sight beneath the friendly shelter of their rockey cavern homes. We hear, in imagination, the scream of the wildcat and the panther, then feel our heart grow 84 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE steady once more in the contemplation of the drowsy cattle, who feed lazy and contentedly on the luscious grasses in this fairest of all fair pastures. But what next? Ah! again the arms of Pro- gress are raised with masterful power and might, and a tiny, joyous little creature runs to and fro among the trees and flowers, outrivaling in beauty and purity the buttercups and dandelions now gathered in his chubby little hands, held to the ruby lips, then thrown laughingly on the fragrant morning breeze. The song birds cease their merriment and listen in silent amazement to the strange but pleasant sound, while the cattle and other four- footed creatures of the meadow raise their heads and for a brief space gaze in wonder on this fairest of all fair visions— a lovely, innocent little child— then browse on again in silent contentment, con- vinced that all is well. The picture pales and fades, but comes pre- sently again. We rub our eyes and gaze, for something is wrong, something changed or differ- ent, though in all essentials it on first sight ap- pears to be the same. The mountain, the meadow, the brook, remain LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 85- as we saw them a moment since, unchanged, un- sullied in all their fresh and virgin purity and loveliness of feature and dress, The birds sing as gaily as of yore; the rabbit and the hare romp and play in the waving grasses of the flower- spangled meadow; beneath the shade of the trees of the forest and along the waters edge other animals are seen to run and sport in merry frolic and glee, or to lie still and chew their cuds in happy and undisturbed quietude and peace. The flowers of the valley shed their sweetest fragrance on the air, while the same bright gow of sun diffused throughout it all, still lends charm and color to the peaceful, happy scene. And yet something is wrong, something changed or different from what we at first beheld. What is it? We look again, deeply and genu- inely concerned this time; but memory comes pre- sently to our rescue, and we gaze in surprise and wonder to find that the fairest part of the vision should so long have remained unsought, unmissed, from among even this vast panorama of gorgeous beauties and entrancing sights. The scene suddenly loses its charm, its princi- ple and most important feature of attraction, and our concern and anxiety grow, for where is the 86 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE lovely, winsome child with its bright, happy little face, laughing eyes and dark curling hair. Hur- riedly we scan the landscape before us, this way and that, in eager pursuit and search of the lost or missing treasure. Where is he? And our heart grows faint with anxiety and fear, lest this fairest and sweetest part of the vision has vanished, never to return. Moments seem ages, a great fear takes possession of us and we turn in alarm to the ferocious looking beasts on the mountain side, and feel our soul grow sick with apprehension and dread. But ah ! Our search is suddenly brought to a happy close. Our quest is ended and we catch our breath in joy and relief at the discovery, only to look again the next moment in greater doubt and perplexity than ever at the superb creature before us, so like, yet so unlike, the child for whom we sought. What is it ? Not a child, certainly, neither an angel or a God, yet a being whom we instinctively know to possess in his single person, something of the leading and more prominent features and characteristics of each and all. Simple and child-like in the pure, unspoiled, unsophisticated beauty and simplicity of his man- LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 87 ners and conduct, majestic, and god-like in the grand and noble perfection and bearing of his form and feature. One possessing in his single person all the beauty, sweetness, purity and innocence of a child, the face, form and heart of a God; yet with- al! holding as inherent within him all the abilities and possibilities, as well as faults, failings and weaknesses of a man only. Great as a God, yet simple and weak as a child. Such is the picture that now comes before us, and we gaze in surprise and admiration at the scene, in utter loss which most to admire and love of the charming combination, this perfect triple one— the God, the child, or the man. Interested beyond measure we look and search for others like him, for mother or father, for com- panion or friend, but lo! there are none. He stands solitary and alone the sole and only representative of his kind. Alone, too, in a great, glorious and mighty world, peopled with all things else. Carefully now we scan the face and features of this solitary and lonely man, intent, if possible, to read therein the solemn story of his sad and solitary life. S8 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE No mother's kiss ever pressed on that pure, unfurrowed brow; no father's hand ever raised in pride and benediction above his stately head; no sister or brother, no wife or child, no sweetheart, companion or friend. No one to love and cherish, none to fondle and caress, no word or term of love and affection ever gladdened those ears or passed those lips to another. No fair woman's head ever pillow r ed on that broad and manly breast; no bright eyed, rosy cheeked babe ever pressed in paternal pride and love to that fond and hungry heart. What a picture? What a life? Oh! what a a world of pain, and pathos, and misery, in that one short sentence, solitary and alone? We feel a sudden jar and tension on our heart strings, and are sensible of a great and powerful change or reversal of sentiment and feeling within us. A mist comes swiftly before our eyes; the sun screens his glorious light behind a mantle of dark and dismal cloud, while Love and Necessity hover in yearning, burning sorrow and pity above the darkening horizon of what is now a sad and dismal scene. All charm and fascination has swiftly van- ished, and we close our eyes to shut out for a time all further knowledge of a sight that has become LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 89 rapidly overwhelming in its horrible desolation and heartrending loneliness. We open them presently again, however, and stare in wonder and amazement at the spectacle before us. Can we believe our senses, or have we become suddenly insane? Is this the same scene over which we sorrowed and anguished a moment only since? Is it possible that such a transforma- tion has actually taken place ? Can it be true ? And lost in surprise, delight and admiration, we gaze silent and speechless, first on the sublime and wonderful face of Progress, across whose radiant features is written in letters of purest gold, the grandest story ever told, the sweetest and most inspiring song ever thought of or sung; for there confronting him stands perfect and finished the mightiest, most stupendous, in fact, the last and most crowning piece of divine handiwork ever conceived and executed. We turn to the handsome, god-like youth and stand transfigured; lost in the contemplation of the sweetest, sublimest and most glorious picture ever painted bv even the hand of God himself, for there by his side stands a being— a near likeness or counter-part of himself —but one over whose glorious countenance heaven's own light shines SO THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE and radiates with a beauty and purity resplendent and unspeakable. A gloriously beautiful and perfect woman— the other half of and complement to man— his help meet and comforter, his companion and friend; his love, his joy, his pride. She, around and in whom all the pride, pleas- ures, ambitions and joys of his life concentrate and centers, and without which he was desolate, miserable and incomplete. Angels, with shining countenance and in glowing raiment, singing songs of joy and praise celestial, flit here and there, oc- cupied in their works of love and ministration to the happy pair, for woman and reproduction is born into the world. The demand of Love and Necessity through Progress, is at least complete, and as the scene begins to fade and vanish from our sight, there is laid gently into the fond and loving arms of earth's first mother a tiny flower, a human bud, an arabesque from heaven's own loom, the mind and heart of the almighty and creative infinite. "And one with him who parted from our sight— The first among the sinless sons of light. Hast thou beheld where passed the seamless dress, Or heard the still, small voice in storm and stress — The thunder moaning over moor and hill, That hushed as echo answered, Teace be still?' M CHAPTER X. 4 'Not in vain the distant beacons; forward, forward let us range; Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change/ ' That the bringing into being of creation, was a slow and tedious process of evolution, requiring endless ages and changes in the form and struct- ure of each and every individual atom or molecule contained therein, before brought to that stage of perfection in which we find it to-day, is, we be- lieve, a reasonable conclusion based as it is on common sense and reason, as well as also on the investigations and researches of modern science; and that man was no exception to this rule, we believe, to be as well sustained. That he is, and has been from the earliest mo- ment of his inception in the bosom of nature, a creature of progress only, we believe to be true, and that his creation is not, and never has been complete, and will perhaps never be, at least not until after limitless changes and journey ings on- ward and upward, he may at least reach that 92 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE stage of perfection which is his final goal— con- scious and intelligent individuality or oneness with the great first cause. The home or essence of that love supreme, which is vital, intelligent, eternal, and out of which from necessity, all things at first was ushered or grew. That man was evolved stage by stage, and step by step, from earlier and lower forms of life, the natural product, so to speak, of that specific form or kind of evolution which is indiscribable and indefinable, but to which it is nevertheless so easy to grant the existence of both intelligence and design, we accept as fundamental truth. Also that having after countless ages and changes perhaps, in condition and environment, at last reached that promising stage in his develop- ment to which we may with safety attach the name of human, man's progress has since been more rapid, and that he has, and will under proper conditions, continue to steadily rise in the scale of creation, toward that perfection, love and life everlasting, which is his ultimate destiny, We have no means for reckoning or measur- ing the lengths or durations of time occupied by the several epochs or periods of creation; neither determining just what v/as the causes pre- LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 93 existing leading up to and finally producing as its immediate cause or effect, that result called man (Adam), and can, therefore, not attempt to analyze, define or explain it; but that he did not reach fully developed and mature manhood at one bound, we believe a fair deduction, considering the array of evidence brought by the scientific world to bear upon the theory of evolution. That woman was, however, the emination, outgrowth, other half of and, therefore, comple- tion and perfection of man, mental and physical, we concede and accept as fact. Acknowledging her as his natural follower or sequel on the plane of existence. The natural product and complement, born from the great longing, yearning, hungry heart of man for love and companionship. But man, spiritual, we see in that early period of his existence and development as we see him to-day; the still incomplete and unfinished product, or tapestry from the loom of nature— destiny. In- complete and imperfect, because holding inherent as possibilities within him, all the seeds or germs from which what we know as evil germinate and grow, and perceive Adam in our earliest acquaint- ance with and knowledge of him, as pure only in 94 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE that sense of the term, or to that limited and qualified extent or degree which applies to child- ren before they have reached their full develop- ment and maturity; complete and conscious indi- viduality, or that stage of observation and experi- ence where they are able to distinguish between the elements known as right and wrong. That Eden was a state or condition of mind or spirit only, in which Adam lived while yet in this immature and undeveloped state of existence as man, and that then, as now, the God of Eden walked abroad in his garden— the pure, unconscious and adulterated heart and mind of innocent and inoffensive childhood. But as time went on and he began or contin- ued to expand and develop in all those faculties or abilities that was at first but rudimentary, and im- mature, that the time finally came when fully developed and mature manhood asserted itself, and he was adult in all those passions, instincts, desires and weaknesses that are a part of and be- long to his organization and make-up as man; and that he then, as now, conscious of some possible imperfection, weakness or error, shrank from the voice of the Lord, and sought to hide his naked- ness behind the garb, mantle, or costume, of fig- leaf or something similar. I LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 95 But that he was only being carried onward and upward in the scale of creation is evidenced by the fact that in woman and reproduction was complete, perfect, and fulfilled man's creation and destiny on earth, to which the Lord himself gave sanction and approval, for "And God blessed them and God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it." Having reached which part of the discussion the question which again naturally rises for answer is, if man was not a miscarriage, mon- strosity or anomaly, a disappointment to his maker and disgrace to himself, to what end or purpose was the death of Jesus, and the life of Christ. Now, it is not the mission of this work to at- tempt to demonstrate or prove scientifically, the correctness of that theory which sees in evolution the solution of the problem of creation. Suffice it to say that to the evolutionist the proofs of the truth of such theory are abundant, satisfactory, and therefore conclusive, which, if true, it naturally follows that as man has from the beginning, been a creature of progress only, mounting slowly but surely higher and higher in the scale of creation, onward and upward as the weary ages came and went, that the story of the 96 THE WORLD'S ROROSBOPE fall of man must of necessity be untrue, and his need of Redeemer, therefore, a creature of the imagination only, If Adam did commit some sin or error in the garden of Eden it must undoubtedly have been because of some pre-existing faultiness or imper- fection in his organization; in which case he surely could not be held as responsible in the matter, nor said to have fallen when he did sin; because already created so. For no deduction seems plain- er and more reasonable than that Adam was not morally or spiritualiy complete, or that none but a carnal man could or would in the first place have ever sinned. That the world of mankind has been for per- haps all the ages past, ruled and governed by false ideas, views and teachings with regard to the creation and status of man in the garden of Eden; as well as to the character and mission of Christ on earth, we believe to be the facts in the case. As we have never seen man in other than a fallen, or rather imperfect state of being, we can, therefore, not imagine him as laboring under the necessity for or being bettered by a sacrifice or atonement; least of all a vicarious one. That man did, however, need an examplar; LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 97 an urger, a stimulator and inciter; something to finish, to lift and take him out of and away from the merely carnal and sensual side of his life, and place him on a higher and more elevated plane of existence; one to encourage, aid, stimulate, in- spire and sustain him; to point out and to show him the way; to teach him the nature, character and destiny of his being, as well as the powers r capabilities and possibilities, with which he was endowed, we believe to be true. And that that one was Jesus of Nazareth, in and through whom was made manifest on the grandest scale the world has ever seen, the God in man. Christ, or He whom "with the limitations re- moved that bind him in a human sense to a single personality means the eternal overflow or over- flow of God's love to man.'' He who taught us how to break down the barriers: the flaming sword of Eden. To reach and partake of the tree of eternal life, and the grandest, sweetest, noblest and sublimest character the world has ever known. That Jesus did not hang upon the cross an emblem of either God's love or wrath toward man, neither as a sacrifice or atonement for the sins of others, but as a shameful sacrifice to the ignorance, stupidity, doubt and vanity of a shameless world, 98 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE we believe equally true, for that ' 'prophet hath never had honor at home" is, to the best of our knowledge, a saying that applies equally well to all nations and ages. Innovation and reform has ever been treated with spite, disdain and contempt. He who seeks to show the world something new or different from its accustomed methods and ways, especially in the higher realms of thought and spirit, must sooner or later bear the cross and wear the crown of martyrdom in one way or another. If one presumes or dares to be unlike the balance of their kind; to think or to act differently from the generality, they are a monstrosity, unnat- ural and abnormal, and should, therefore, be pun- ished. Treated with contumely and derision, and possibly with a cruel and ignominious death. If they are wiser spiritually, than we, especially more developed and learned in the occult, meta- physical and phychic,they are witches or in league with the devil. If they know things we do not know, it is evident that they are wicked or mis- taken, and if they attempt to show or teach us it becomes at once their eternal and unpardonable sin. All along the line of human history there LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 99 have been instances and examples numerous to prove the truth of these statements; many a man and woman too far advanced, spiritually, for the merely carnal man to longer comprehend or un- derstand, has died the cruel death of the cross or stake because of such ignorance, want of compre- hension and development. Spiritual blindness, ignorance, doubt, stupidi- ty, intolerance, vanity and conceit sent Jesus of Nazereth to the cross, as it did also Jeanne d 'Arc to the stake, and would perhaps you and I, dear reader, to the gallows, were it not that a large por- tion of the world has, through tears and tribula- tions, sorrows and lamentations, blood and fire, reached an age or stage in its development and progress where toleration with spiritual knowledge and freedom, have at last throned and crowned themselves monarchs of the world. The grandest spiritual age the world has ever seen, and the soul awakening ready for the millennium. But Jesus came to an ignorant, unenlightened, spiritually undeveloped and uneducated world, "A voice crying in the wilderness the kingdom of God is at hand" His spiritual age in dawn, its flower in bloom and they knew it not. They had conceived only of a God without, rather than that re. 100 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE which lives within, and could, therefore, neither see nor feel the larger spirituality, the divine Presence, which shown through this first normal and fully developed man. The great and eternal principles of love and justice and mercy which shrown through but was not limited or obscured by his otherwise feeble personality; and even to-day the most spiritual and enlightened age in the history of the world, it is difficult, if not impossible, for the spiritually undeveloped, unfolded, unenlightened and uncul- tivated, to see or comprehend the Christ, except in and through the Jesus personality or embodi- ment, and even then, only as one far above and in advance of anything they could ever hope to rise to or attain. Oh! ye of little faith. " Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, Where truth abides in fullness. " CHAPTER XL "This it is to exchange weakness and impotence for strength; sorrows and sighings for joy; fear and forebod- ings for faith; longings for realization. " In imagination, the world of mankind has been, from time immemorial, accustomed to look away off into some far distant realm of space in the endeavor to pierce the veil of the absolute and see God, who, according to popular belief, lives on a golden throne in the midst of a golden city, and from that point, some way or some how, regulates and governs the affairs of man. God up in heaven, we find one of the first lessons taught inquiring childhood in christian homes the wide world over by parents and guardi- ans, themselves as ignorantly instructed, and thus the error goes on. At home and abroad, in sermon, song and prayer, we are told to look up to find the author and maker of the universe. Not up in the sense used by conscious inferiority to a superior being, but up in that sense of the word used to designate 102 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE place and locality when speaking of earthly ob- jects and things. How few people, even those of knowledge and culture, can ever thoroughly disabuse their minds of the childish impressions thus received of God, as a being located at home, in a city whose size and dimensions can be measured in miles and fur- longs, somewhere in space. With what persistence will this erroneous idea and conception and deity stalk abroad in the mind, to threaten and browbeat judgment and reason in their frantic efforts to bring a realization of the true god-principle home to longing, hungry hearts. With what sense of desolation and black dis- pair has earnest, thoughtful souls of all ages and climes turned from this unreachable, unknowable God of fancy and fiction; only to find at home, within and around the sanctuary of their own be- ings, the knowledge of a Presence which casteth out fear and saturates with the very essence of that love, and peace, and harmony which rules the universe and which we call God. To find that the universe is a vast sanctuary, instinct with the vibrations of love, and joy, peace, beauty, harmony and life, and that the spiritual or regenerate heart of man is the throne LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 103 and heart of God. That throne or Heart Divine of love and power, peace, beauty and harmony, which orders the stars and keeps the world revolv- ing in space, and the finding of which enables man to accomplish all things. To learn that the maker and ruler of this universe is all love, and mercy, and goodness, all majesty, power and might. That he is ever kind, loving, merciful and just; was never angry and has no inclination or tendency to punish or destroy. They learn that the god-man is he in whom the Christ is unfolded and awakened, and that he is a mighty being, all-powerful, all forceful and unlimited; because instinct with the power and love of this great eternal All. The world needs a home-coming, a realization and understanding of this eternally living and present Christ. This great unchanging, undying, inseparable and indivisible God, who is the first and the last ; the All in All. To recognize and feel to the fullest extent and depth of their beings, their filial relationship and intimany to him. To feel his presence and to hear his voice. To be alive and instinct with love and holy 104 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE desire to this divine essence or principle which lives within a part of and at home with man, fin- ishing and perfecting, when he opens the portals of his being to the inflowing of the love and knowl- edge and power divine which passeth understand- ing; and which lives in eternal plenty for all when they wait in the silence and solitude of their own soul, and will listen and heed his call. We hear a great deal of a dead Jesus, but lit- tle comparatively of this eternally living and PRE- SENT Christ. This one whose normal attitude is manifest in and expressive through all men. This Heart of Deity which lives within, and the find- ing and culture of which means so much to man. without which he is nothing, but with which he is everything. For however much we may believe in and grant the existence of the soul faculty or germ of immortality in man, the fact remains that he will never become a spiritually fully grown or adult being, without the growth and development of such faculty— such godly quality or principle. For the germ or seed of even an immortal soul is not the finished product— the bud is not the flower. The finest acorn is not the mighty oak within whose towering branches the fowl of the air may LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 105 build their happy homes, and sing songs of thanks- giving and love to their maker. A faculty, or ability, will never become a prop- erty or quality; the germ will never become a creat- ure; the seed never a plant; the bud never a flow- er, and the acorn never an oak until the conditions or requirements upon which its individual develop- ment and growth depend, are unconditionally com- plied with and fulfilled. The human uterus, or that of the lowest of quadrupeds, will never become the parent bed or cradle from which will spring and grow the frailest infant of tree, plant, flower or herb; neither the finest forest or flower garden, be they never so fertile in all the various elements necessary to the growth and sustenance of luxuriant vegetation, become the loving mother, through whose respon- sive being will tremble and thrill with tidings of gladness and joy, the first faint quivering or beat of the tiny foetal heart. Why not? Because the very existence of any particular or specified kind, form or quality of life or growth depend wholly and unalterably upon the conditions that are harmonious with and con- ducive to the life and growth of such particular or specified kind, form or quality of life, growth or development. 106 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE Every creature or thing in existence must, of necessity, have environment, and if it continue or grow culture, and that too, of the specific and characteristic kind or quality upon which its par- ticular and individual life, growth and develop- ment; nay, its very existence depend, else it can- not exist. And granting the existence of the soul faculty or germ in man, it of necessity follows as a law governing the existence and continuity of all things, that it must also receive culture; and of that kind, too, which is conducive to and meets the requirements that are necessary for its par- ticular and individual life, growth and develop- ment. Evil will not grow good, neither good evil, because in every essential foreign to and antago- nistic to each other. God and mammon can not dwell in the same place and at the same time, and nothing grow conscious, intelligent and individual immortality or oneness with God, but righteousness, because it is the only element or food on which the soul or spiritual germ or faculty in man can expand and develop; and if the soul or spiritual faculty is not developed there is nothing about man to take into eternity, or rather into conscious immortality. LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 107 Carnal man has only one day; which is time only, and must make or lose while here. We are not one of those who have much confidence in the power and efficacy of the so-called death bed con- fession. Mansions and palaces have not within our ob- servation and experience been built that way, neither anything that was of service or utility. We believe in the good old-fashioned way- first the foundation, then row on row, tier on tier, until finally the roof is reached and the structure stands finished and complete. A slow, tedious, and possible laborious w r ork or labor, yet, never- theless, a beautiful and substantial one. It may be, however, that the omnipotent, all- knowing, seeing and merciful head or creator of the universe has stemed the tide of all ignorance, wickedness, slothfulness and want of opportunity and enlightenment, leading downward to retro- gression and possible oblivion, and placed lines or barriers beyond which we cannot descend or fall. We can at least hope that this is the case and that those who have as human, lost here, can there have still a spark of the divine, by which to pick up once more the thread or remnant of their spirit- ual talent or make-up, and pursue their journey 108 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE under new light, new training, new opportunity, new inspiration, new hopes, new blessings and new rewards. Indeed that all alike will be per- mitted or enabled to continue their growth toward that goal of illimitable, unthinkable and incon- ceivable perfection, that even eternity itself will be too short to ever attain or get a surfeit of. But while this would seem to be the most mer- ciful and common sense view of the case we would consider that as a dangerous doctrine which would teach us to ' 'waste our substance, " to idle and fritter away the palmy and acceptable days of this life, with its many opportunities and blessings in ignorant, improper or vicious living, lest, though we did not irredeemably and eternally lose or kill our conscious souls, we did that which was like- wise a great and never to be the less deplorable misfortune and folly; so warp, stint, circumscribe and cripple its capacity for expansion and enjoy- ment as to cause us at last to enter the pearly gates of the glorious future life only as babes, paupers and imbeciles. "Oh! I stand in the Great Forever, All things to me are divine ; I eat of the heavenly manna, I drink of the heavenly wine.'' CHAPTER XII. "As one comes into and lives continually ill the full, conscious realization of his oneness with the Infinite Life ane Power, then all else follows. As illustrating this point there is a beautiful' story comes to us, the author of which we do not know, but which is, nevertheless, here repeated in substance, if not in words, because so suggestive,, so powerful, so replete with; truth of the kind which we so wish to emphasize and enlarge upon. A lady, so the story runs, died and went to heaven. At the gate she was met by St. Peter, or some usher whose duty it was to show strangers the wonders and magnificence of that celestial and imperial city. As they journeyed along they talked pleasantly together, she questioning and he answering relative to the many and various beau- tiful sights and scenes along their route. Who lived here and there, in this mansion or that? What they had done of note or merit while on earth, and how now spending or making use of heaven and eternity, were the subjects under dis- cussion when suddenly a mansion more lovely, more beautiful; more magnificent, more wonderful 110 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE in its glorious perfection than anything which the strangers eyes had yet feasted upon in even that vast city of glorious wonders and magnificent per- fections, burst on her astonished vision and sent a spasm of delight flashing and quivering across her countenance as it danced and thrilled in transports of joy and gladness along every fibre of her being, and dashed forth again in vehement question as, Ah! tell me quickly, I pray thee, whose is this mansion so delightful, so entrancing, and what great thing did they do while on earth to thus merit and obtain such joy, such grandeur here? Ah, Madam, answered her guide, as an extra gleam of satisfaction and pleasure stole over his placid, happy face, his was no great personage or name while on earth, neither did he any great or famous deeds while there. He was only a plain man with a plain name, and of plain, unostenta- tious acts and deeds. But out of his mite or pit- tance he fed the hungry and clothed the naked, picked up the fallen and soothed the broken heart- ed; was eyes to the blind and staff to the halt and maimed, and one in whose simple, unsophisticated heart there never lurked even the shadow of a wicked or cruel thought or deed toward man or beast. You will doubtless remember him, Madam, LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 111 your old coachman, John Anderson. My ! my ! how you do surprise me, John Anderson?* Is it possible? Poor, simple John. Indeed I do re- member him. He always seemed such a never-do- well ; never saved or accumulated anything to speak of there. True, we didn't pay him much wages and he had a large family; but as you just remarked he was always hunting up the sick and distressed and unfortunate of all kinds and doing for them. Why, if a lame or hungry dog even came his way he would straightway leave his work, if it was not something of a like character, and go immediately to find relief and succor for the poor brute. And— thoughtfully— yes, indeed, John Anderson was a good man, but we were never people who paid much attention to such folk or how they got along. You see they wern't in our set, and you can readily understand how greatly surprised I am to find that this elegant mansion belongs to him. But, breaking off abruptly, gracious me, what is this I now see, as a hovel smaller and meaner than any structure in which John Anderson had ever lived in while on earth, flashed into view casting, as it seemed, a blur, a pall over the other- wise beautiful and perfect landscape of heaven, and rapidly becoming an eyesore, an offense, in 112 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE fact, to the fastidious and aristocratic lady because of its utter want of genteel proportion and beauty. Its diminutive and homely size and shape; its lack of architectural skill and finish, indeed its general- ly shabby and poverty stricken looks and appear- ance that amazed and appalled her. That, answered her guide while never a feat- ure changed or altered its expression of placid joy and contentment, that, repeated he slowly and calmly, belongs to you, and fortunate indeed that it is so near the Anderson mansion, for that will throughout eternity furnish you a pleasant, a joyous spectacle, I may say, to at least rest and feast your eyes upon. But much of the real meaning of his speech was lost to the lady's understanding in a swish and whirl of the senses that all but robbed her of consciousness. Like a shock from an electric bat- tery, a surprise and horror that grasped and con- tracted every muscle and heart string, transformed every facial expression and all but paralized every limb took possession of her, and for a moment de- prived her of intelligence or speech, and she gasped and gurgled only in the vain effort to find utterance. Presently, however, belongs to me? To me, did I understand you sir? Did you say that this LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 113 hut only belongs to me, gasped forth into coherent sound as sob after shook her frame and convulsed her features. That only is your eternal home, Madam, an- swered her guide calmly, as turning he was about to leave her presence. But, my dear sir, I can't live here; I assure you I cannot, I have always been accustomed to elegance and luxury, to the beauties arid splendors of earth, to carriages and equipages, to servants and liveries, and surely there is some misunder- standing, some mistake, some incomprehensible and well nigh fatal mistake. And as a brilliant idea flashed across her mind, Ah! I have it; this hut was probably meant for John Anderson, and his palace for me. But sorrowfully this time answered her guide. No, that cannot be. There is no misunderstand- ing here, no mistake ever happens or enters this pure realm of perfect and untrammeled justice. You built your house by your own conduct and deeds, and I assure you, Madam, it contains every piece of material you ever sent up. ' * In the glorious tint of the morning. In the gorgeous sheen of the night, Oh ! my soul is lost in rapture, My senses are lost in sight,' ' CHAPTER XIII. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right. ' ' Now our creed, if such it might be called, would ask of God no symbol other than that alone which speaks in the heart of man. The divine awakening or perfection of the soul through the Christ within. The All-truth or God in man, which is from everlasting to everlasting and needs no form or expression other than a full recognition and understanding by our spiritual consciousness. We worship at no shrine but that of Truth, believe in no temple but that of space, and rever- ence no time above another excepting the "now," only that is the accepted time, considering each moment a spiritual one and all alike sacred and holy when we remember how and why it came. To those, however, who reckon external ob- servances, forms and ceremonies useful, to such as they help to enlighten, exalt, stimulate and en- courage to spiritual effort and endeavor we would not say nay, believing in and accepting all the LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 115 help we can get to aid and assist us along the way. Sacred music, especially, do we consider up- lifting, inspiring and ennobling, accepting it as a means of no small merit in spiritual improvement, culture and progress— a drawing near to and mak- ing ready for communion with the Lord. For in all things grand and beautiful we see God's smil- ing face and hear his kind and loving voice. Every Right is of God, and every Beauty and Perfection part of his qualities and attributes. It is not possible to feel a righteous impulse, think a beautiful thought or do a kind, loving, merciful or useful deed without partaking to that extent or degree of the righteousness, beauty and perfec- tion, of which is His the sum total: and anything which enables us to expand and open our beings to the influence of this inflowing and indwelling goodness and beauty draws us nearer to God, and He to us, because a means to an end, a means leading to our completion and perfection, and the fuller our vessel of such qualities the more at one and at home with their fount, the great, glorious and eternal God. A thousand, yea, ten thousand thousand lines or chords of communication reach out from the fountain of eternal and inexhaustible supply. 116 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE They are of everything that is good and beautiful, grand, glorious and perfect, and they flash and quiver and thrill around and in the heart and soul of man, brightening, warming, inspiring and uplift- ing when he will respond to their purifying and vivyfying influence, and take hold of them as the agents of his improvement and progress. The agents that in the first place created and now are seeking to perfect him. But the limb cut from the tree and thrown away will die quickly and naturally, because cut off from its parent, its source of supply. So with the human soul, starved for its proper food and nourishment— beauty and love, and tenderness, and mercy, and kindness, and compassion. The good and noble thoughts and impulses neglected, lost sight of and forgotten. Dear reader* don't forget when inspired by a noble thought or feeling that it is of God, or think when prompted to a deed of kindness, love or mercy for another that it is they alone who are benefitted. Remember that it is you who are drawing nearer to the God by thus partaking of his qualities and attributes, and, in proportion as you fail to take hold of these lines or cords of com- munication with the Eternal, in that proportion LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 117 exactly are you carnal, and of earth only, for thus it is that not only do the deeds of commission, but those also of omission likewise damn and destroy. It is not belief, nor creed, but character that saves, and that great, strong, kind, loving, tender, yearning, hungry, honest and compassionate heart and soul of the great and noble humanitarian and so-called infidel, Robert G. Ingersoll, has a show- ing and record for eternity that no loud, canting, half-fledged and half-hearted so-called christian will ever have; for, whereas the child may not always know and recognize the parent the mother will know and claim her own, whether it be christ- ian, heathen or infidel, and that it is the disobedi- ence to and failure to cultivate and improve that which lives and speaks within you that will lose you your conscious soul. So live to your highest standard and concep- tion of right, be it that of a heathen only, if you expect to return to your maker a conscious, intelli- gent and immortal being. Remember there is ' 'survival for the fittest only," and that without spiritual progress your creation is not complete and you are not an im- mortal being. That the spiritually dead unborn or unawaken- 118 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE ed is only a monstrosity and that nature wilt surely abort or miscarry her abnormal and imperfect work. True, we are not all kings or princes, neither intellectual or moral giants on this earth, and will probably not be over there. We are perhaps not able to mount to the top of the ladder at one bound, but according to our measure will be our supply and reward, and by doing the best possible with what we have, so will our ability and capacity grow until we are at home with the God who gave. So be not dismayed or discouraged if your pint measure of humanity will not hold a quart of di- vinity. Your Father is neither discouraged or angry with you, He alone knoweth the great de- sign or pattern that is being daily and hourly woven, some of whose parts are light, some dark, some feeble, some strong, but some time and some where the fabric will be finished, and the whole stand forth in a beauty and grandeur and perfec- tion undreamed of by finite mortal man. " There is no noble height thou cans ? t not climb; All triumphs may be thine in futurity, If whatso'er thy fault, thou dost not faint or halt; But lean upon the staff of God's security. ,, CHAPTER XIV. "When one recognizes this great fact and opens him- self to this Spirit and Infinite Wisdom, he then enters upon the road to the true education, and mysteries that before were closed now reveal themselves to him." Now we do not pretend to be able to reduce to a chemical and anatomical analysis, the science or laws governing the attraction or repulsion of things mental, spiritual or physical, nor to tell the whyfore of the magical and oftentimes fatal sym- pathy so well known to exist between things of various natures, characters and qualities. We do not comprehend the philosophy, the great fundamental and underlying laws operating and producing the manifestations of the so-called supernatural, or know why some people, independ- ent of all earthly sources of information and knowledge, see and hear, and know things that are not material, and that are sealed from and for- bidden to others, any more than we know why the law of average show one year more suicides in Prance and fewer murders in Germany, or a 120 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE greater number of deaths in the United States, and fewer births in the British or Chinese empires. We cannot tell why the seed of the cucumber, planted in what is called the sign of the twins, will bear fruit, two and sometimes four at every joint, wiiile the vine by its side, w r ith the same soil and receiving the same sunshine and moisture, but planted under a different sign will not. We are not authority on why rain falling on the newly blown cotton blossom will blast and keep it from maturing, neither why an Irish potato carried in the pocket of the sufferer will sometimes cure rheumatism. We do not know why by concentration and meditation the affinities of the body and mind are changed into sickness or health, pleasure or pain, grief or joy, ugliness or beauty, and even our ex- ternal surroundings and environments at times completely and thoroughly changed and made over. These and many others are subjects on which endless theories and speculations have been ad- vanced and ponderous volumes written, and yet the great and eternal why and whyfore; the ulti- mate relation of the mind to the body, the spirit- ual to the physical, and all things connected there- LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 121 with and their influence over the same for good or evil, is deeply shrouded in gloom and mystery, but it is certainly too great to be ignored in the con- sideration of the various elements and agents by which the human being is and may be affected. We know, beyond the peradventure of a doubt, that under some circumstances the influence of mind over body and of one mind over another mind surpasses that of all other agencies that are or can be brought to bear upon them, and instances are not wanting to prove the trance or hypnotic influence often exerted by one person over an- other, even for evil, for one wicked person in a neighborhood has been known to ruin many people. That the mental influence, both of ourselves and others, may and do, under some conditions and circumstances shape, modify and even entirely transform our natures and facial expressions as well as our external situations and circumstances, social, financial and otherwise, we know to be as true, as that the contact or application of certain other actives to passives will invariably produce as certain, invariable and uniform effects or results; and that it is true that within certain limitations we get what we build, and that effort and result 122 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE invariably correspond, mental and physical. That we can sow thought and reap action, sow action and reap character, and that to sow thought, action and character is to reap circumstances and sur- roundings. With the Psalmist we can truthfully and hon- estly say we are fearfully and wonderfully made, when we realize our powers and abilities and learn to wait and hold fast to the lines of our supply, for whatever we wish to accomplish or enjoy. True, we are not always free to do just as we choose, because acted upon by others and by every element in nature, universal mind and sympathy governing the whole; but sooner or later the cur- rents or circles of sympathy will come round in our favor, and we, if magnetic and attractive to that only which is for our good, will find ourselves in harmonious relationship and contact with the object of our need and desire. The lid lifted from the fount, drawn from it by our attitude, and our vessel filled to overflowing. The limitations are these only, there is some great infinite plan being worked out and fulfilled, and while each and every being or thing is born and lives within circles or radius of planetary or fatherly love and influence, these are of different LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 123 orders, classes and varieties, each having quali- ties, properties and characteristics that are pecu- liar and characteristic of themselves alone. They are not within bonds of sympathy and do not affiliate or amalgamate with those of each and every other or different order, class or variety. They are possible opposites and consequently irre- deemably antagonistic, unlawful and therefore, denied happy and pleasurable contact one with another. The plan would otherwise be interfered with and God's objects or purposes become a conglom- eration, an accumulation or ocean of contrarities, confusions and contradictions only, and while we are the highest order or class of beings in the universe, we do not all belong to the prince or mil- lionaire families, have no monopoly on the brains and talents and cannot rule and govern the princi- palities, kingdoms and nations of earth, or have at all times all the benefits and pleasures of the uni- verse dancing attendance to our exclusive and individual wishes and commands, but all circles are alike good because our Father was never the author and maker of any thing evil. He is the fount of supply, the prince of just rulers, and lives and governs within all because 124 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE filling all. He knows what is best and has pre- pared abundantly for our happiness, for within the compass— the sympathetic connections and at- tractions of each and every circle— is held Life, Health, Wealth, Peace, Beauty, Prosperity and Happiness abundant, sufficient and to spare, for each and every being within the radius of its power and influence when we hold ourselves in relationship, attractive and receptive to its in- coming and inflowing influence and benefits only. Our bodies and minds are like a house in which we live with the doors and windows open, some to the north, some to the south, some to bad, some to good. The ether around us is pregnant with the power and influence of both God and mammon, good and evil. One carnal and temporal, the other spiritual and eternal. We stand as a magnet; as the north or south pole to the needle of the compass, at these portals or loopholes of our beings and by our attitude in- vite and welcome the kind of spirit we would en- tertain, and thus shape or mould our character and destiny for good or evil. Now, while we do not believe in the property, quality or quantity known as evil as an absolute, Life on an upper plane 125 separate and independent entirety or existence, presupposing all things good and conceiving of evil only as the dependent or relative property of things; that there is, however, an element in existence by which all things material are, or can be exercised and influenced detrimental and pre- judicial; and which, for the sake of lucidness and convenience of thought and expression we must still call evil in the future as in the past, we con- cede and accept as fact. But as all things created have their individual and specific uses and purposes in the great plan of creation, each the loved and loving child of the parent source from which it sprang, any given or specified creature, object or thing, can be said to be evil only to that extent and in accordance with the influence exerted while in contact or connec- tion with any other particular and specified creat- ure, object or thing. Hence, it follows that to be wholly and absolutely evil would be to exercise uniformly and continuously an equal, evenly bal- anced and unwavering influence, detrimental and harmful on each and all other things with which coming into contact, and as to the best of our in- formation and knowledge there is no creature or thing in existence known to do this, then there 126 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE can not, in its strictest and most absolute sense of the term, be said to be any such quality or element in existence, only as before stated, to that limited and qualified extent or degree, and in harmony and accordance with the influence exercised upon the creature, object or thing acted upon. Now the quality called good is like unto a piece of cloth of which one side is say changable red and green, and the other blue and purple. Both sides the same material and cloth, but given its particular hue or color by the way in which we hold or look at it, and by its influence or impres- sion on the particular object or thing with which coming into contact. A war may be a great benefit or good to a conquering nation, while as great and correspond- ing a calamity or evil for the vanquished one. A heavy sleet and snow storm in the late spring may be a great evil by killing all the fruit and early vegetation in a particular section of country, yet, nevertheless, a great good by putting an extra season in the ground that insures the luxuriant growth of other and later crops. All the greatest and most beneficial element or forces in nature are, likewise, under certain circumstances and conditions, its greatest so-called LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 127 evils— air, water, wind, etc.— yet who would pre- sume or dare to call them wholly and absolutely evil, because of their great and unequaled destruc- tive properties and powers. Hence a thing can be said to be either good or evil only in exact proportion to the influence ex- ercised on other objects or things. Thus honey is almost a deadly poison to some persons while a great and nutritive edible or table delicacy to others. The wearing of the opal is said to bring "bad luck" to all not born under the signs of the zodiac known as Aquarius and Libra, and governed by Saturn, Uranus and Venus, while ''the amber at- tracts all things to it but the garden basil and things fat or smeared with oil, between the which and it there is unconquerable autipathy and hatred." The giving of a knife or other sharp instru- ment by one person to another is believed by many to cut the bonds of unison, love and friendship be- tween them, and the Topaz to cool and drive all love excesses with hatred from its presence. The Amethyst despises drunkenness. While coral is a well known preservative against poison and if worn around the necks of children it enables them 128 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE to withstand many diseases to which childhood is heir. Why these things? What is the great and mysterious meaning or reason for such causes and effects remain a great and unfathomable secret in the bosom of the great and unexplored parent who gave them birth? We can only look on, guess and conjecture, for it is well known that the affinities, attractions and sympathies, as well as counter at- tractions and antipathies of all things organic and inorganic, material and immaterial exist independ- ent of and in spite of the fact that we are not able to comprehend, explore or unravel them. All creation is a great circle or endless chain of circles and systems of circles, each revolving independent in its own orbit and on its own mis- sion, dispensing force, power and energy, each of its nature and kind, to every creature or thing within the radius or circle of its power and influ- ence, ruling and governing, and in its turn being ruled and governed by each and all others, and creating and moulding that only for which the con- ditions are all normal and harmonious; out of which condition evil may be said to have at first grown, and God as the sole and only originator and creator of such condition been directly responsible. LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE. 129 In which of the first events, and viewed from previous standpoints, we would still conceive of man as the ignorant tool or vassal of pre-arranged or pre-existing circumstances or conditions only, and therefore irresponsible; while at the same time maintaining our original ground, that God did not create evil, and that nothing exists but good excepting that only which had thought of or emination from the mind of man alone. In seems that he only, of all created beings, recognizes and believes in evil, and that he may, therefore, become evil, and to almost any extent because dwelling upon and harboring it. Others of creation know no evil, and there- fore do none. They cleave to that only with which they are by the bonds of sympathy connected or united, and shun or resist that between them and whom there is not affinity, sympathetic connection and attraction. Thus oil and water will not mix, yet neither are, therefore, evil; both have affinities or sympa- thies for which they are good. Now, as viewed from man's standpoint, a thing is or becomes a good if sympathetic with, but evil if antagonistic to him. He, as a reasoning creature, was, in the first place, able to think of 130 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE. or to imagine something different from an oppo- site to, or reverse side of good; and his order or quality of mind such that having found something that did not affiliate or amalgamate with him, he at once conceived tie idea that something was wrong with that same object or thing, and set about trying to investigate and explore it. He looked at and tried it this way and that; thought of and pondered over, meditated and rea- soned with, fondled and caressed, inspected and criticised, and finally despised and condemned, while still and withall loving and hugging it to his ignorant, untutored heart in the vain effort to make peace and beauty, joy and harmony between them. Thus came evil, the outgrowth of man's ignor- ance and vanity, into the world. For the longer and harder he pondered over and labored with it the bigger and stronger and mightier grew the will NOT, that emination or verdict from oppos- ing factions known to man as evil, and occupying the same relationship to such factions as the report to the gun, or the noise and smoke to the battle; neither dangerous within themselves, but having the ability to finally drown or hide and obscure all else if persisted in and continued. Which is ex- LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 131 actly the case with men to-day. The world is burdened with an atmosphere of evil thought and desire, hence we would say guard even your thoughts, cease to think of or tamper with evil, if you wish to stop creating or producing it. Leave God's work alone. All of which he is the author and maker is good, in its time, in its place, and handled in the right way. That which speaks within you when you will listen and heed, is GOOD and right; but don't outrage, don't try to force or drive it into contact, sympathy or harmo- ny with something to which it is antagonistic or opposed. If you do the smoke will rise, and you will be obscured and enveloped until perhaps even God himself will never see you, and you will be ruined; utterly and completely lost and forgotten in the confusion— the grime and smoke of battle. In view of the foregoing qualifications and statements we do not consider it necessary to dwell at any greater length on the so-called magic properties of things material and physical, imma- terial or spiritual. Neither to endeavor to further explain or show how and why both good and evil may and do follow or ensue the perfectly natural consequence or result of the operation of natural laws alone. 1» THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE That anything, and everything, with which one is harmonious and congenial becomes to them a charm or talisman of "good luck" that can and will, to the extent of its individual power and in- fluence, bring peace and pleasure, joy, happiness and prosperity only, we conceive to be self-evident, as also, that the reverse is true of all those ob- jects or things with which we are not on terms of sympathy and good fellowship. We have only to bear in mind that miracles are such to the uninitiated and unawakened only, and that signs and wonders have always followed in the footsteps of those who lived nearest to God and nature. That the greatest necessity of mankind to-day is to realize to the depth of his being what the true god-man is; what his powers and capabilities; what it means to be in touch with and subservient to the thou of his existence, for then only do "all things work together for good to those who love and serve God," Having reached which part of the discussion, it is now our intention to give in the following in- closed chapter of this work a plan or rather a form or method for concentration or soul culture peculiar and chaatacteristic, but the beauty and efficacy of LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 133 which we know to be true, because bringnig in its wake to all who practice its instructions and teach- ings, every GOOD of which they can possibly have need, while as persistently expelling all evil by its blessed and far reaching beneficial power and influ- ence; and by the use of which some of the great- est and best, as well as most celebrated of" stu- dents and philosophers, chemists, naturalists, psy- chomists, astrologers, alchemists, sorcerers and performers and explainers of the wonderful and mysterious of both ancient and modern times- principal of which was the great and distinguished Albertus Magnus— are said to have performed some of their most wonderful feats of the sublime and miraculous, making the sick well, the lame to walk, the blind to see, the deaf to hear and the dumb to talk, as well as the poor rich, the homely handsome, the silly wise, and the old, to all intents and purposes, young. "In the gleam of the shining rainbow The Father's Love I behold, As I gaze on its radiant blending Of crimson and blue and [god. " "Every day's a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new; You who are weary of sorrow and sinning, Here is a beautiful hope for you, A hope for me and a hope for you. ' ' HEALTH **&& Nb Uzgsvi /|\^ R, zwliv BEAUTY Gsvv P X08p ®RlTy HAPPINESS CHAPTER XV. That man has a tendency to become what he wishes and believes himself to be is, we conceive a proposition past doubt or controversy, the reasons for which are we believe as obvious. He is the Son, the likeness of or image of his Father, the Almighty who thought of and willed this great universe and all it contained into exist- ence, and endowed man with those self- same faculties or qualities of his own known to us as thought and will power, and to which, as regards man, it was his divine will that all other things are or could become also obedient and subservient The limitations being those of a nature or character that bind man and his operations, to and within the realm or sphere of his individual exist- ence or being only, but, nevertheless, leave him therein the sole and only Lord and Master— the architect and builder of his own character and destiny. Great and glorious privilege and blessing, yet tremendous and fearful responsibility, for as we sow so shall we also reap. 188 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE That thought and will, wish and desire do create and supply, regulate and govern every ele- ment or factor within the compass or environment of man, as well as the entire universe beside, is undoubtedly true, as also that within a given radius or circle man's power and ability to draw all contained therein to himself are limited by his slothfulness and ignorance only. Our Father is one of munificence and plenty. His great storehouse holds in abundance all the elements from which to construct and build any- thing of which man can possibly conceive or have need, when we learn by our attitude— our thought and deed— to sow the seed and thereby set in op- eration the chain of circumstances or events har- monious and sympathetic, that finally build even the seemingly impossible into practical and living realities. When we learn that to yearn and long, and hunger, and thirst, ardently and earnestly, doing all in our power to aid and to help ourselves, that then are God's promises made good, and by or through the virtue and operation of law governing the supply and distribution of all things are brought together into one active, living and resist- less force, all the elements in the universe that are LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 139 required or necessary for the accomplishment of such object or purpose, For, however much the statement may be doubted or questioned by some, the fact remains that there is nothing in the universe of which the human mind can conceive or the heart long for and desire but what has its accomplishment and fulfillment some time or some place, if longed and labored for according to God's methods and God's plans— for all good things are his natural parts and attributes, flowing direct from his divine pre- sence in and around us when we, by our conduct, open the door and welcome it in. Hence, again w r e would say guard your thoughts as well as your conduct. Be as much as possible with the bright, the happy, the cheerful g,nd the pure. Select that only with which you are harmonious and congenial; that which gives you joy and pleasure, and peace unalloyed and un- sullied by doubt, or fear, or pain. We do not mean by this to close your eyes, your mind, your heart or your purse, to the calls of the unfortunate, the suffering or the erring, but to see in them as much as possible only the good and beautiful, remembering that to recognize the 140 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE Jesus quality or ability in man is to aid and assist him to develop and unfold the Christ. Look carefully and scrutinizingly within and rest assured that if that still small voice, your best monitor and guide approves that all is well, but if not beware, for something is radically and vitally wrong; for while I is a great and mighty being, endowed with wonderful and far reaching powers and capabilities, to reach the perfection of its growth and development it must first become obedient and subservient to the far greater and mightier thou, the completion and perfection of its existence. In which case man then becomes what he should be, a real god-man, and, therefore, a mighty invincible and irresistible being. When using the prayer and talisman direc- tions for the making of which is herewith given, remember that if you so will you are as magnetic sympathetic and attractive to the adverse as to the beneficial influences around you. Therefore go into a quiet, comfortable place and free your mind as much as possible from every burden or worry, trouble, hate, anxiety and fear. Set the glass in position in front of you, and sit in an easy, comfortable position yourself, while look- ing steadfastly into the depths of and behind those LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 141 eyes which gaze and reflect back into your's from the depth of the mirror. Repeat three times in succession the invoca- tion or prayer which has been first memorized, and written in your own or nearest relative's hand writing and placed in the back of the glass. Put down the carnal and raise the spiritual. Think of the God that is within and around you. How mighty, how great, how good, how loving, how merciful and how just? Think earnestly and prayerfully of his attri- butes, which are Life and Health, and Youth and Beauty, and Love and Joy, and Happiness, Suc- cess and Prosperity, to all of which you are heir, holding the vessels to be filled from the elements, which are continually in, around and with you, and for which you are the natural affinity or magnet, when you will reach out after, and by the force and power of every faculty and ability at your command draw them to you, or become receptive to their in-coming and in-dwelling power and influence, Bear in mind that when good comes in evil goes out, and that to the extent or degree of its inflowing to that extent or degree exactly is all evil purged out, or washed from you and God or 142 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE Good only made master and ruler of your life and destiny. And now, to any who doubt the thorough reliability and unfailing efficacy of this plan or means to a righteous end we would only say, sus- pend your judgment and try it from fifteen to thirty minutes, or longer, each succeeding day for three months, and then pronounce sentence from your fund of knowledge and benefit obtained by its use. Instructions for Making the Magic Glass. Decipher and write on clean, white paper, with your own hand, or by that of a near and loved relative or friend, the powerful invocation or prayer (the key or interpretation to which is also appended) found on page 146 of this volume. When finished choose from among the ribbons contained in this book, (all of which have received for this express use and purpose a special magic and occult treatment or preparation known only to the author of this work), that one or more which are your particular and individual astral colors, • and together with three hairs taken from the crown or your head, inwrap both ribbon and hair, by one folding of the paper on which the prayer has been previously written. After this first folding proceed to fold again, the two loose corners this time, diagonally across the paper until, when finished, the whole assumes • A list of the astral colors will be found on page 148 of this volume. 144 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE the form and shape of a wedge or triangle, in the three corners of which you will now one name at a time, and in a place proceed to write the name of the Trinity— Father, Son, Holy Ghost— finishing this part of the process by inscribing in the center of the wedge the word Amen, and under this your own first or christian name. Now turn it over and write or copy on the opposite side of this magic wedge or talisman, the symbol with its corres- ponding letters, found on the seal cover of this chapter. When all is complete, prepared and finished according to the above rules and instructions, remove the back or rear covering from any plain mirror, (preferably about one foot square), place the talisman therein and again inclose or seal. Now make a solution of garden rue (either powdered or whole leaves), and rain or soft water one teaspoonf ul to the pint. Place in a bottle and let stand ready for use. Wash the glass before using therewith, pol- ishing carefully afterwards with a clean, soft cloth and occasionally thereafter, especially when cloudy and needing to be cleaned or cleared. If going on a journey or beginning some uncertain or hazardous undertaking or enterprise where it LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 145 would be inconvenient or unwise to carry the full sized mirror with you, the talisman may be re- moved from the back of this glass and placed in a pocket or smaller sized one. Or, failing to find one suitable, then for the time being (as a tempo- rary measure only) wear the talisman without the glass in any convenient place about your person or clothing. If you have an individual or special wish or need not given mention or utterance in the follow- ing invocation you can from time to time after having made use of the invocation three times in succession, as before instructed, invoke with your own thought and in your own language the good powers and forces by whom you are now surround- ed for a compliance with your wishes, never doubting that so long as it is within the realms of the good and just that failure is impossible and SUCCESS is CERTAIN. 146 Prayer or Invocation. Nz Gbuifs J csjoh nz ifbsu up Uiff Uipv xip bsu uif Hvjef Dpngpsufs boe Tubz pg nz tpvm jo bmm jut ujnf pg xfbtloftt boe ebohfs bcjef xjui nf opx boe gpsfwfs-npsf. Uipv xip bsu uif fncpejnfou pg fswfz hppe boe qfsqfdu hju gmpx jo boe bpvoe boe vqgspo nf. Mfu opu nz tpvm cf uspvcmfe ops nz ifbsu ejtnbzfe cvu pwfspmf njof fofnjdft cz uif qpxfs pg uiz sjhiufpvt boe fufobsm xpse. Bmm jo Bmm bsu Uipv boe J pg Uiff boe oxp cz uif hsbdf boe nbkftuz pg uiz obnf boe qpxfs J esbx qbsublf boe ipme pg uiz mpwjoh bepsbcmf boe hsbdjpvt cpvotz boe cfdpnf pof xjui Uiff jo Mjgf Mpwf Zpvui Cfbvuz Qsptqfsjuz boe Ibqqjoftt opx boe sgf wpf s — npsf . Bnf o. 147 Interpretation of Prayer. Write in a straight row, one beneath the other, the letters of the alphabet. By its side write another row, dropping one letter lower down (putting a. opposite b., b. oppo- site c, etc.) until the second row has been com- pleted to z., which last letter of the second row will now be placed opposite the first letter (a) in the first row. Proceed now to spell out the words of the prayer, using the letters of the first line of alpha- bet for the spelling of the words as found therein, and the letters of the second line or row as its interpreter. Thus, for example: The first word in the invo- cation, viz: becomes my, because n-m and z-y are opposite each other in the two perpendicular lines of the alphabet, and so on with all others con- tained therein. 148 THE ASTRAL COLORS AND DATES OF THEIR SUPREMACY Dec. 21, Jan. 19— Garnet, brown, silver gray, black. Jan. 20 to Feb. 18— Blue, pink and nile green. Feb. 19 to March 20-White, pink, black and emerald green. March 21 to April 19— White and rose pink. April 20 to May 19— Red and lemon yellow. May 20 to June 20— Red, white and blue. June 21 to July 21— Green and russett brown. July 22 to August 21— Red and green. August 21 to September 22— Gold and black, speckled with blue dots. September 23 to October 22— Black, crimson and light blue. October 23 to November 21— Golden brown and black. November 22 to December 20— Gold, red and green. H 128 82 %*^V V^\/ V^'> " Deacidified using the Bookkeeper process. 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