way-though not thought to be demented, he patterned his life much like that described by Daniel Defoe in his famous story of Robinson Crusoe. In this very peculiar case, no inheritance from any real personage is known and must be of the order of reincarnation, as the forerunners, savages, were never known.

I have hitherto quoted a French scientist as saying that all matter he has examined emits rays of light. There is no doubt with anyone that all things are under domination in Essence and Matter-a Creator for matter surely, the other being the spirit thereof.

It is well known that we have wheat today from a few seeds found in Egyptian tombs of some early age. "The seed of the Kingdom" is often a quotation; and Jesus, the prophet, declared "the kingdom of God is within you." Even the little girl, when asked who made her, said "God made me so high; I growed the rest!"

II

Title of this book, Physical Life and Inner Light— light not of the sun, but of the Creator who shows in physical being, all that we know of such in this life.

Speaking of seeds that endure, I am reminded of once attending a lecture in Yale University on the subject of the Seat of Life here. The speaker told us of a few experiments he had made. He selected some frozen fish in market with fins and tails intact, and taking the fish to an unfrozen body of water, dropped them in. When spring came, the fish had all "thawed out" and were as lively as crickets! The speaker owned a pond full of terrapins, etc., and taking pity upon an exposed one with shell fast in the ice, dug a hole nearby and buried the turtle below frost line. In the spring he found the terrapins alive and well— except the one he had buried!

This is explanation so many poor mortals make who can think of no entity higher than theirs. These so pettishly and foolishly blurt out, "There is no God!" A fool of the "educated" sort once told a Quaker he could not see-did not believe-there was a God. The Friend merely asked, "Has thee ever seen thy brains, young man? (Of course he hadn't.) Then dost thee know that thee has any?"

If a distinguished scientist gives up the riddle of life as unsolvable, so without more ado we poor mortals must let the frost make occasional kills; in the case alluded to, man was to blame. Even old earth has spells of the bellyache (earthquakes) and worries.

As education and culture advance, so does the reverence for womankind. Inferiority in sex is not recognized in animals below man. Excepting we now have less amazons for war; even the nobles, kaisers and chiefs are falling into ways of the softer sex and plead for ending of that savagery; a co-worker with slavery is war. In our bible scriptures and of the Shinto, Buddhist and Christian beliefs, there is the trace of creating better evolutions. The "born of a virgin" is not put forward as the true miracle of predominance. Japanese make the variant, showing greatest respect for both parents, yet have proper respect for the wife and daughters. This precludes all gush about beauty and its sex abuses.

And He rested on the seventh day, for tiresome is the work of creation. That is to say, putting the cart before the horse, for it is not likely man could have invented an almanac before there was call for such a book-as I remember away back, our old Dutch kind gave us rules for planting in dark or light of the moon and had many saws and funny crips. Think it over, and be of the religion of Jesus: "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath."

"And the soul returned to me and said, thyself art heaven and hell," so Whitman later than Omar, on the seaside said, "I have fingered every shore with thee— my soul!"

We can have notions, intimately in fancy, of no places away from earth. Traveling in Germany, a new country to me seemingly, and when in region of the Black Forest had intimations of familiar landscapes there. This, as if the soul in former rebirth,

I probably had been home there on that great Path of the Eternal. No mortals have, except they be poets, the fancy fit to guess at unseen things. Milton in his conception of a war just outside heaven's gate,—to subdue, as earth also experienced later, arch fiends, invaders of the devil order,—the wrong polarity, as the robbers, holdups, etc.

Many besides our greatest prophet speak of the light within that must drive out any spiritual darkness. But if questioned about heaven and heavenly places for preferments of anxious politicians and such, Jesus could only answer folly by folly: heaven is a place of many mansions. He did not proceed to give particulars as to taxations, and money changers— he had had too much trouble with the selfish followers.

It is useless in our discussions of the golden rule, etc., to mention those worthies, ancient and modern, who gave for the thoughtful so many times, as did Jesus, differing only in degree, the difference between highest orbs-sun, moon and stars, in comparison to the light (as Milton said, holy light) that lighteth up a passage throughout the soul's path. At the first lesson in the primer learn that "the kingdom of God is within you."

How poorly has the best of mortals made out discovering things of earth in the usual lifetime! So in the chances offered by our Creator to perfect ourselves He has given us more than one chance, by rebirth. But if artists leave their best work, soon time ruins. the colors, as no pigments can be everlasting. To make their landscapes near the nature models must require artists to guess at the transitory, the vanishings with

time. Curious curves over the picture to blot out vision of shades very transitory-clouds, streams, and decay in all mountain grandeurs in the pictures. In reincarnation we can secure features of Nature in longer decay periods. Our "night time away from Nature" refreshes us, and in each life time can with Milton's grand apostrophe, "Hail, Holy Light, offspring of heaven!" A new heaven, and a new earth— or older earth. So we journey afresh through the Seven Ages of Man. Thus comes renewal of strength, of aptitude for life, that in the night of the soul gets still more of the higher light and more manly strength also on being.

The latest kind of Bible miracles for children to read are those made up at a period when Cicero and other famous men of Rome made literature prized ever since. Let me cite one miracle to explain (!) the life work of the world's Example in every regard: a story of Jesus at a jolly wedding party making good wine. Such a character today would be consorted with bootleggers and breakers of the 18th Amendment to our national Constitution.

This senseless, profane charge made against our Savior causes all the religious murders, burning of martyrs alive—and destruction of true writings of the best of authors,-who could not believe "the entire Bible" as handed down. The very kind of infidelity that has ruined the good name of a church and hastens the downfall of it.

Then, I say, on behalf of religion, separate the sheep from the goats in any reverenced volume, as the Bible, so to keep the children of God provided with only