Time Is Only An Illusion Produced By

Time Is Only An Illusion Produced By The Succession Of Our States Of Consciousness As We Travel Through Eternal Duration, And It Does Not Exist Where No Consciousness Exists In Which The Illusion Can Be Produced; But "lies Asleep."

Little Do The Devout Worshippers Of The Vatican Suspect, When They Lift Up Their Eyes In Mute Adoration Upon The Head Of Their God On Earth, The Pope, That What They Admire, Is After All, But The Caricatured Head-dress, The Amazon-like Helmet Of Pallas Athene, The Heathen Goddess Minerva! In Fact, There Is Scarcely A Rite Or Ceremony Of The Christian Church That Does Not Descend From Occultism.

Every One Of The Numberless Religions And Religious Sects Views The Deity After Its Own Fashion; And, Fathering On The Unknown Its Own Speculations, It Enforces These Purely Human Outgrowths Of Overheated Imagination On The Ignorant Masses, And Calls Them "revelation." As The Dogmas Of Every Religion And Sect Often Differ Radically, They Cannot Be True. And If Untrue, What Are They?

To Act And Act Wisely When The Time For Action Comes, To Wait And Wait Patiently When It Is Time For Repose, Put Man In Accord With The Rising And Falling Tides (of Affairs). So That With Nature And Law At His Back, And Truth And Beneficence As His Beacon Light, He May Accomplish Wonders. Ignorance Of This Law Results In Periods Of Unreasoning Enthusiasm On The One Hand, And Depression On The Other. Man Thus Becomes The Victim Of The Tides When He Should Be Their Master.

The Chief Difficulty Which Prevents Men Of Science From Believing In Divine As Well As In Nature Spirits Is Their Materialism.