in the providence of God, be fulfilled. If this were not
true, the universe would be weak at its most vital point.
Desire is the onward impulse of the ever-evolving soul. It
builds from within outward and carries its fulfillment with
it as a necessary corollary.
All is mind. Then the things that appear must be
expressions of mind. Thus mind is reality, and it also
appears as phenomena. The is-ness of mind is but one side
of it. Being is not limited to the level of is-ness; it has
all possibilities, including that of breaking forth from
its inherencies into the realm of appearances. Mind has
these two sides, being and appearance, the visible and the
invisible. To say that mind is all and yet deny that things
do appear to have any place in the allness is to state but
half the truth.
An idea is capable of statement as a proposition. The
statement is made in response to a desire to know
experimentally whether the proposition is capable of proof.
A number of elements are involved in the statement of a
proposition that are not integral parts of the proposition
itself but necessary to its working out. In the simplest
mathematical problem processes are used that are not
preserved after the problem is solved yet that are
necessary to its solution. The figures by the use of which
we arrived at the solution are immediately forgotten, but
they could not be dispensed with and it is to them we owe
the outcome. The exact outcome of each step in the solution
is a matter of experiment. The intermediate
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