WHAT IS GOD, MOTHER

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Mother says these are just a few of the numerous reflexes accompanying child-bearing. I hear singing in my earsdoesn't that mean disorder of the intellectual faculties? Maniacal delirium? Suppose I become temporarily insane. Perhaps mother is not telling me all that she knows! How I do look in the mirror. Where will my beauty go? Why shouldn't pregnancy be the most physiologically healthful and beautiful state of womanhood?

Diantha, your little heart, liver and kidneys are being formed now. Your heart beats just a tiny bit. You're barely an inch long today, dear. The stretching of the womb, caused by the growing baby-seed, creates a disturbance of such a sympathetic nature that it re-acts upon all the other organs. Dear me, these sympathetic disturbances, in a highly organized woman, are over-mastering our grandmothers called them "morning sickness." They are transforming me into that dreadfully ugly, hopeless and helpless state of pregnant woman, which has no like in the whole animal economy. I wonder if I know what I'm doing? How strange, when man-woman alone is said to be an individualized manifestation of their maker-God.

What is God,' Mother?-that word?"

Child Of Love, the moment we begin to think in words, we think in contradictions. An argument beginsa war of words-which is aimless, going adrift into wordy abuse which gets us nowhere. Everything is disputable. We dope ourselves with words. We use them without realizing their meaning. Do we change the color of the violet, the strength of the onion by changing its name? Words-human-symbols-are only confusingpictures of sounds, worth very little, unless heard by the soul. Wasn't it Horace Greeley who said: "The English language doesn't stand a ghost of a chance when it gets in my way." Dictionaries are only mile-posts to send us on our way. There is only one universal-language-the language of the soul-which is unknown to words. Words are a see-saw. How curious our reason,

in spite of all our learning. It gives us "a headache without a head" as the proverb runs.

Precious, the word "God" means Good. Many creeds have referred to the Deity as a personal-being, making the word God distasteful to many thinking minds. In time we will have outgrown the personal for the Impersonal, the finite for the Infinite.

God Is Spirit.

God is the Universal-Consciousness, the spiritual-essence and evolutionary-force which is in and thru every atom of the Universe, "whose image the universe cannot hold. " The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination embodies God. Smaller than the smallest, larger than the largest, is the Universal-Intelligence-God. A thot, a speck, a spark, a dot, a mote, a mite, a point, a jot, an atom, a molecule, an electron, a drop in the ocean, a feather in the scale, a shadow of a shade, all are but expressions of different rates of motion or vibration and each is not too infinitesimal to contain and embody God. Tom Thumb or Goliath, the mouse or the elephant, the mole-hill or the mountain, each embody The Creator. God is supremacy, unutterable. He is here, there and everywhere,-ever present, far, near, unlimited, boundless, shoreless, trackless, pathless, reached from all points of the compass, at the end of every path. Individually and collectively, visible and invisible, all put together; "Each in his own tongue is God.

As one says: 'God is Good; matter, motion, and space, consciousness, intelligence, wisdom, spirit, substance, energy, darkness and light. The worlds are His outspoken thots; but there is nothing outside of Himself, of which He might think; He being the All, including and penetrating everything. Thus everything exists with Him, who is the life and soul of all things. In Him we live, move and have our being, and without Him we are nothing.

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul."

God was called by Plato, Good; by Schopenhauer, Will; by Kant, Thing in Itself; by Emerson, Over-Soul. "God is a sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." In the deduction of John Fiske: "God is that of which all phenomena is the manifestation."

Remember, dear, there is no speck of dust-no atom

in this whole changing universe-that may not be, at one time or another, the whole part of the most valuable or invaluable thing of which one can think. It is impossible to have an impossible thot. Every blade of grass, every dew-drop declareth the presence of God.

"The Law that rounds the world, the same

Rounds the dew-drop's little frame."

The highest manifestation of this evolutionary-force, on this planet, of which we know, is in the awakened consciousness of a developed human-being. God's combinedwisdom of the Universe flows thru the spirit of all things, interpenetrating all space, all earth, from the lowest plane of life, on up, to the highest evolved man-woman on earth.

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Diantha, you may not like the word "God." Unfortunately in this age we have to use words to make ourselves understood. "All the petty differences between religions and religions are mere word-struggles. Do your own naming, whatever name pleases you best, Diantha, granting everybody the same privilege, to worship according to their own light. To name a thing oftentimes throws a seeker off the path. We won't quarrel over words. Some call God Nature, Natural-Law, LifePrinciple, Great-Evolver, Sub-consciousness, Jehovah. Some call God, Allah, some Brahma, some Atma. Others call God, The Divine-Mother. Anyway, God is the everpresent, Supreme-Ruler. Words matter not. Just think of what it means.

Mother, Evolution is an awfully Big Word. What does it mean? It must make the elephant out of a little speck of dust."

Child Of Love, the word Evolution is from the Latin word evolvere, meaning unfolding, unrolling;—to search and find out, to expound, to declare, tell or utter, to meditate, muse and think upon. Counter-marching as it were,

-as soldiers do. To turn over as one turneth a book; to pursue and read over. A necessary outgrowth as if from a seed, bud, or unseen state, self-unfolding, an impulse to take on a higher form. "Evolution, says Joseph Le Conte, "is the disturbance of the equilibrium