We should not separate Life from living, Spirit from matter, nor Divine Principle from a universal creation. God is "all in all"; that is, God is, and is in everything. The gardener finds a Divine idea concealed in the seed; loosed into action this idea produces the plant. The geologist finds the imprints of invisible forces in the rock. The evolutionist reads the history of cosmic activities on this planet as he deciphers the unfolding of an intelligent Life Force carrying creation forward to its consummating point here, which is the production of self-conscious life. The scientist finds an energy concealed in the atom, and the spiritual genius discloses an intuitive knowledge which can be accounted for only on the theory that "we lie in the lap of an infinite intelligence."

So close is the union of creation with the Creator that it is impossible to say where one begins and the other leaves off. Emerson tells us that "Spirit is matter reduced to its extreme thinness," and Spinoza tells us that mind and matter are the same thing, while Jesus boldly proclaimed that the very words which he spoke were Spirit and were Life. Robert Browning tells us of a spark which a man may desecrate but never quite lose, and he further proclaims that we are all Gods, though in the germ. Wordsworth sensed that heaven is the native home of all mankind, and Tennyson said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams. Shakespeare perceived sermons in stones and good in everything.

Science is on the verge of disclosing a spiritual Universe and will ultimately make the declaration that what we call the material universe is a spontaneous emergence, through evolution, of inner forces which cannot be explained but which must be accepted. How, then, can we doubt that the very mind which we use is some manifestation of that Intelligence which is in all that lives?

Ernest Holmes