Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul

To those heroic minds who can truly say: "My soul is my own," and bravely maintain it through everything--in spite of Church or State--I do offer with earnest congratulations and my loving greetings, these fragmentary thoughts of

Chapters

4. Chapter 4

Jesus, our Christ, the Christ of the religion named for him was the transmitter of heavenly truths. To him the world owes forever a debt for making known a knowledge of the fact...

1. Chapter 1

To those heroic minds who can truly say: "My soul is my own," and bravely maintain it through everything--in spite of Church or State--I do offer with earnest congratulations an...

8. Chapter 8

What devil-worshippers those old chaps were! To him they ascribed all power over things animate and inanimate, and the effrontery of the man who should have even mentioned the p...

7. Chapter 7

How unreal seems the existence of the inner life! How vain our intent to catch its meaning, and portray its deepest lessons, and yet, it is the reality. It forms the center arou...

2. Chapter 2

Nature buffets her children bitterly and wipes out her surplus of human life as she destroys the overproduction of beast and bird, of insect and reptilian life. She inspires the...

9. Chapter 9

There is nothing so great that it cannot be undermined and destroyed. There is nothing so established and sanctioned by age-long, consecrated usage that shall not finally be swe...

3. Chapter 3

Gathering all together in one embrace; the whole race of man, one undivided family. Its divine "Trinity" is Evolution, Progress, Liberty. Many minds reject this assumption of fa...

6. Chapter 6

When the experiences of the dual nature, the body and soul, from any cause, bring the body, or the brain into conditions where it can no longer respond to the uses of the spirit...

5. Chapter 5

In contradistinction to that which repels, and disintegrates, it is attraction. Love is God, it draws elements together, and holds them in proper spheres. It centralizes and bui...

10. Chapter 10

It has been believed that dead folks stayed boxed up under ground waiting--ages perhaps--for the last trumpet to sound to call up the sleeping billions to the surface of the ear...