Synopsis
An omnipotent force is operative throughout the universe, an intelligent force that fashions alike the frailest blossom and the farthest star, that controls and directs the countless suns and worlds in their orbits— that underlies and permeates all, from the least to the greatest. Every phenomenon is a manifestation of this intelligence, which throughout unnumbered ages has been working toward the ever-increasing expression of its own ineffable fullness. In the heart of the acorn is written the word of the towering oak; deep in the soul of man the self-same power has traced the living word of its own image. In the fullness of time the acorn discloses its wonderful secret, and likewise the word that was written from the beginning concerning man must become manifest. Law and order obtain in the one growth just as in the other. Change follows change in both—the change of a sure development, the change we call the evolution of life, the power of progress throughout the whole gamut of existence. And this forever upward-tending force is native and inherent —this evolution is the direct and inevitable sequence of involution. The ideal, the goal in embryo—one might say, all that a soul may ever hope to become—is at this moment, at every moment, locked within that soul's depths. Each soul contains at any and every stage of its existence the history of its own past and the prophecy of its own future.In our study of the different sciences we gradually but inevitably awaken to the fact that there is in reality but one life, one science. The same life animates the tiniest molecule and the greatest intellect. One omniscient energy creates all outward forms. Would it not be well, then, to give ourselves earnestly to the realization of this all-embracing lift within ourselves? When in the fullness of time we come to feel this unity of life we shall no longer regard the external world as something partial and apart, but we will know that both the outer and the inner go to form one great vitalized whole wherein can be no separation.
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