Deep down in our natures speaks the voice of our God "Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, - SECOND AND ENLARGED EDITION BATTLE CREEK, MICH. OCCULT PUBLISHING COMPANY 1908 DEDICATION To my dear friend, Jerome C. Ryan, who has been my faithful champion and assisted me both financially and otherwise, to my beloved mother whose loving counsel I have so sadly missed, and to those other friends who have been faithful and true, this book is lovingly dedicated by THE AUTHOR. FOREWORD From times ancient beyond conjecture the restless spirit of man has been seeking to discover, if possible, the real source of being -the how and the why, the whence and the whither of existence, but it is a problem that has been ever elusive to his finite understanding, for the finite cannot grasp the infinite. The great majority of the human race are so occupied with the outer and meaningless forms, so prone to follow after the material and fleeting pleasures of life that they fail to come in touch with the inner sense of things and seldom catch even a gleam of that "innermost light" which illuminates the darkness that envelops them. Yet in all ages, and in every nation and clime there have always lived a few gifted souls who were able to peer beneath the material envelope, there to unveil the mysteries of Nature and behold the glories of the Divine. These inspired ones have given expressions to the wonders they have discovered in language so sublime that we are hushed 5 |