Their worship enshrines the All-creating Spirit in their hearts, and their thoughts of Him and desires towards Him go forth into the Soul of Nature, impregnating it with the seed of the good, the beautiful, and the life-giving, which must assuredly bring forth fruit in its own likeness in due time.
Their method may not produce the sensational effects which may, perhaps, be produced by their opponents when the development of psychic forces reaches its climax, but in the end all such temporary wonders will be swept away by the overflowing of power which must result when Anima Mundi becomes permeated by Animus Dei, not merely as now in the generic sense of the maintenance of the world, but also in the specific sense of the introduction of the Personal factor in its complete Divine manifestation.
Prophecies
Thus it will be seen that in its grand delineations of the closing scenes of the present age, the Bible nowhere departs from the Universal Law of Cause and Effect. There is a reason for everything if we can only penetrate deep enough to find it; and the laws of causation with which we are gradually gaining a better acquaintance in the realm of our own mentality are the same laws which in their wider scope embrace nations and make history.
When we see this, the why and wherefore of even that great climax of the present age which the Bible sets before us becomes intelligible. We may not be
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