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O THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, NOVEMBER 1, E. M. 300 nomenal world,’ which are appear- (Con) (1 9 0 0 .) This precludes the world. It t is a t 1 never reproduce. ances that our sensations receive and last found to be a requital mt cor- the notion th a t there m ay be “ m ind” T hat is to say, a Scientist, pure picture to us”— and which are tran- relate of changes in protoplasm — in the E th er, or otherw ise th an in for instance, in the brain and nerv- some form of protoplasm under im- and simple. And this is said in sitory sham s Then after the S piritualist comes ous system of the higher anim als, pinging forces which produce it answer to the following note from the Theologian and says: “ Yes, that 11 is a reality because the C orrelate now; and which may exist, else- a warm friend of L. U. O. Silverton, Ore., Oct. 10th, 1900. real world of spirit has an active of all the preceeding Correlates where, if there are other Suns with Deity, which causes the apparent which produce and then sustain it planetary system s, sim ilar to ours. D ear M r . W akeman :- You don't seem to he an Agnostic Unity and Co-relation in our phe- They are as constant, equivalent \v e cannot pursue ue this sublim e n o ra I henom ena.iet, nor a ( r e a tio n - nom pnaj w(,rld of sense phenome- and real as itself. They are found subject fu rth er now Let an y who ist nor a C hristian Now tell us n a> wh,ch we cal1 ,n atter and forcP> to be ,,ot o n Lv the foods, etc., which Can, show that the above conclus- ’ . . * . __ i a __ I i . u . . * „11 , . . .. squarely, w hat you are, what you and which the Special Scientists | sustain the organism , but all con ions do not follow from thisdem on- do b e lie v e , so we can get hold of are playing with, or using to gain tiuuous and the equivalent changes, st rated Law of Science, you, and oblige a m aterial good« or pleasure.” of the whole Universe. The whole In 1865 my old friend, Dr. Ed- T orch R eader . Then they say, Bbenorninalists. .Universe is therefore known to be w ard L. 'Y oum an s, published “ I am a D em ocrat!’’ said David Agnostics and all; “ Tell us Oh an eternal succession of the realities through A ppleton, & Co. N. Y., IL Hill of New Y ork, and his in-1 Spiritual R ealist, how we may I of which our conscious reality is “ The C orrelation and C onservation sistance upon th at fact rallied know of this reality beyond the phe- itself a correlative centre, of Forces.” It was a collection of thousands to the faltering Democ- nom enal?” And through the ages C orrelation is realization; the w hat Grove, F arad ay , Mayer, cracy and made his party a power, he has said: “ First close your eyes co n stan t production of all of th at H elm holtz and others had then Now if every or m any Liberals in prayer; so th at you may see and ; which is, and to which the word real said on this subject, preceded by a applied. splendid “ In tro d u c tio n ” of his own. could and would say as decisively,! know nothing of this phenom enal can only be properly “ I am a C orrelationist,” it would world of the senses.” Do it in Every correlate is an equivalent. It was an Epoch m aking book on brace the Liberals right up into a prayer, so as thereby to take it If one, or any equivalent is real. the m inds of m any. It was follow All of the ed by Balfour and others, but it is position of power and influence in for GRANTED by addressing this then all m ust be. unknow n reality, th a t it does real modes, qualities and properties of not yet out of date, for the progress vincible. The reason is (hat Science is ly exist , and can hear and answer m atter, or of sensation are in u lti of Science since has been but an pimply the application and reali prayer; and then keep intensifying m ate analysis modes of m otion; enlargem ent and application of the zation of the Co-relation of things; this auto-suggestion, until your all co-existing or succeeding each- law and m ethods there unfolded; the law of the Sequence, E q u iv a “ sub-cons iousness” takes the place other; and so realizing change and we w arm ly recommend it to lence, Causation and Co-existence of the sense consciousness and then fcubstance, and our sense of m atter, those who wish to begin the study of all of the things and changes, yon will realize the reality of the space, tim e and ocr reacting c o n -. of the U nity of the W orld, of which great or sm all, in us, and in all of Spirit world, and you will know sciousness. T here is nothing back we art. all the reacting C orrelates. the boundless N ature, Universe, by sp iritual discernm ent th a t the of any thing, and nothing succeeds T. B. W. Cosmos or W orld around and be world back of phenon.ena with its any thing, but another correlate. yond us, and of which we are the God is the ultim ate reality, which N ature is a “ Business College’’ in This W eek ’s Poem. constant correlative product. created and constantly creates the which “ every transaction is a real The beauty of this bottom and sense world, and governs it and us ity .” The world is a plenum of Please to read the Poem which universal law of Science is th at as subconscious parts of that Spirit correlate processes, and we are of heads the Torch this week. It it sustains, includes and realizes all world. If closing eyes in prayer is , hem. th a t is true and good in all of the not enough to bring this inward The word “ phenom ena” is a m is is G oethe’s STAR-standard which other phases of thought and Liber sight, try the helpful effect of nom er—a specimen of ignorance, m easures us a ll— man or woman, How can we do alism named in the above note as fasting, watching, physical contor under this view. It is either no th old or young. Agnostic, etc. Col. Ingersoll paid tions, sorcery, fear, hypnotism , hys ing, or a correlate reality, of which th a t which we ought? T h at is the the greatest com plim ent to his cor- terics, long yogi-m editation, opium , our consciousness is another. The question, our star, viz: our m other rtla tio n ist friend in saying—“ he is cloral, etc., and even the “ spirit universe is a succession ofsolid equi earth , asks when she tu rn s us to the bed-rock”— he cannot he moved or of wine;” and if in America, valent correlating realities. There S u n ’s m eridian over us every noon. shaken. do not omit the conversion-agonies is nothing hack of any thing nor And every day our lives give a n The best way to understand this of the prayer experience and cam p any change, except another corre swer. M illions have already said position is to see how it explains meeting. late. No “ th in g -in -itsd f” exists, for th is “ S aying” [SpruchJ over and and fulfills the older notions refer Thus on a supposed foundation every thing is itself w ithout any over again, as we m ay do. red to. For instance, the Phenom- “ deeper than Sensation and all room in itself for any th in g hut it But hereto belongs a very in te r enalist used to sav we only know phenom ena” the world Religions of self. Ju st as soon as this is not so esting incident in literary history, things as they appear to us; ap the past have built their S piritual the thing ceases to he itself, and is which we p rin t from C arly le’s “ Mis pearances, th at is in Greek, phe Faiths and Creeds; worked and correlated into som ething else. cellanies” and his “ Correspondence nom ena, are all the world we pre- heated up their inspirations into T he words “ unknow able,” and with G oethe.” We p rin t it, gladly ceive or know. Back of these ap revelations, a nd on them placed “ agnostic” are also sim ilar m is because it shows the “ atm osphere pearances m ust be “ the-thing-in it- its Priests, Tem ples and Churches nomers. Our conscious correlation and sp irit” th a t should pervade self,” the “ nnknow nable,” which is to dom inate, control and lead the inay not extend far in its sensing, the “ higher life,” to which genuine the reality in and of every thing, “ Souls” of the hum an race into reasoning, reaction, and the U n education should lead. Notice the from every bit of m atter up to and this sub-lim enal Spirit-W orld by known m ust be infinite. T hus the appreciative way in which these including the infinite Universe it trances, and finally by leaving this “ unknow nable” means nothing, if great men recognize and honor self. May a sim ilar m ag sense world by death, subject, how not sim ply a way of saying th a t each other! And then right behind the Phe- ever, to occasional returns? prevail in the little our capacity is lim ited. It cannot nanim ity nom enalist follows the Agnostic, The Scientist, the C orrelationist, mean th at the law of correlation is world in which we happen to live! and says: “ I don’t know, it is all comes last and says: “ W hat a won lim ited. T h at is inconceivable; It is not enough to be useful; we beyond me. This U nknow nable derful unsensihle world have you and unless it is lim ited there is no m ust learn how to be grateful to may be, or may not be a God, built up on abnorm al sensations! room for an ex tram u n d an e God— each other, however hum ble. This and live in a Heaven which I don’t Ami its corner stone, “ the-thing-in- in an infinite world of correlation, is the story, we therefore repeat: know; I only pretend to know the itself, the unknow able,” this sub and we cannot conceive of any “ A fact,” says one of our fellow- phenom ena which appear in and hv or u ltra conscious self and world, other world. laborers in the G erm an vineyard my sensations.’ And what are does it really exist? W hat is the A nother astonishing and far “ has but now come to our know- they? ultim ate re a lity ? ” All say “ Con- reaching result of this law is, th at ledge which we take pleasure and I hen right afier the Agnostic sciousness” of some kind, w hether f C orrelations are not m echanical pride in stating. Fifteen English- ( o m e - the S piritualist, old or new, con, sub, or ultra.* I think, sense, m ixtures, but ever new products or nien, en tertain in g th a t high consid- and >ays: M v soul or spirit is my perceive, feel or act; therefore, I [ creations from prior things and eration for the good Goethe, which thing in - it- s e lf , my deathless and am . Wei, what do we find every changes. These, N ature can never the labors and high deserts of a teal » x nee, which preeeives and possible phase of Gon-sciousness to repeat. For every change is such l° ng Ute, usefully em ployed, so ‘Spiritually discovers’ the real be? Its etymology does not mis- only by being different from its richly m erit from all m ankind, world w hi<h is hack ot the ‘p h e -, lead u s ; it is sense or know ledge 1 preceding correlate, which it c a n , have presented him with a highly I Am a Correlationist! with