Many people ask how heredity can be true in mind. Bless you! it is only true there. Memory is necessary to heredity, and only mind remembers. Matter does not transmit conditions from body to body; it is mind, and only mind. Bodies are the ground in which mind sows its seed, and that seed is the thought, or word. "The seed is the word." Whatever the fathers think, whether it be good or evil, the minds of the children bring forth generation after generation. This is an inherent law of being, and it perpetuates beyond the fourth generation in those who fail to change their minds. But through obedience to the Supreme Law, and love, the mind is transformed and mercy shown upon the redeemed body.

It is vain to take the name of the Lord in any but a reverent, holy way.

The Sabbath day is kept by the devout by dwelling in thought upon the rest that is now established in Divine Mind for all who believe in weariness. "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

It was only a glad 'Good morning,'
As she passed along the way;
But it spread the morning's glory
Over the livelong day.

"It was only a written word,

And little it cost in giving;

But it scattered the night like morning light,
And made the day worth living..

"For our lives of song God writes the words,
And we set them to music at pleasure;

And the song grows glad, or sweet, or sad,
As we choose to fashion the measure.

"We must write the music whatever the song,
Whatever its rhyme or meter;

And if it is sad we can make it glad;

Or if sweet, we can make it sweeter."

A NEW THOUGHT ABOUT REINCARNA

TION.

L. C. BAKER.

Without doubt many of your readers sympathize with the repugnance to this doctrine shown by your correspondent "A. M. G. H.," in the January number of UNITY. It seems to them to violate both the traditions of the Christian faith and the sacred instincts of the human heart.

And yet two strong arguments in its favor are hard to overcome: 1. The age-long and widespread belief of the majority of mankind in some form of reincarnation; 2. Its accord with the divine law of spiritual progress that it is through "judgment in the flesh that men learn to live according to God in the Spirit."

Scripture makes mention of but two possible forms of manhood the natural and the spiritual, the earthy and the heavenly. If, therefore, on the plane of this mortal existence, men do not rise above the earthy and natural to the plane of the spiritual, there remains the necessity of their further judgment and correction on this flesh-and-blood arena. It teaches that a select body of mankind are all the time overcoming the downward trend of their earthy nature, and rising into the spiritual. In their case there is no need of another incarnation. They "come forth to the resurrection of life," while those of the race who fail to win this crown of life "come forth to the resurrection of judgment"; that is, their recovery from death can only be to that form of embodied life which puts them again under trial and corrective discipline.

But the purpose of their trial, and, indeed, that of every one of us who is now passing through this life conflict, is not simply their individual perfection. Each of us stands as the representative of a series of lives behind us, the rills from which run into the

stream of our existing personality. From these we have derived our own faults of character and propensities to evil.

Here we find ourselves abreast of a great principle underlying the constitution of the race; namely, that it is an organism from which the dead are not sundered. In the hidden recesses of the great body of humanity they remain incorporate with us. By unseen ties we are all linked together, and in such a way that their final perfection can only be achieved through the spiritual triumphs of those of us who take up the battle of life where they laid it down. "They without us cannot be made perfect." This principle greatly modifies and broadens the Oriental 'conception of reincarnation. It introduces into it the salvation of the

the Christian conception that whole race, living and dead, is being progressively achieved through a conquering seed of which the (Christ is the head. Those in whom the Christ nature is being formed become the members of his body, through whom this redeeming and saving work iis being accomplished. A "church of the first born" implies of necessity that there are to be later born. "The firstfruits of His creatures" are both the harbinger and the seed of future harvests.

We arrive, then, at this broad view of humanity, and of God's gracious designs concerning it. Each generation of those whom we call the living stands on this earthly arena as representing, and as having stored up in itself, all that is worth preserving of the generations past. They are virtually reincarnated in them. Their shattered and imperfect lives seek recovery and rehabilitation through them. The saints, who have already reached the goal of immortal manhood, are the helpers and defenders of those of us who are here struggling. As we yield to the Spirit which inspired them, we become the saviors of our fallen brethren, and so add to the number of the conquering seed. Outcast and imprisoned spirits of the dead receive their quickening from those in whom

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the Christ spirit is triumphant. The command of Jesus to his apostles to cast out demons and raise the dead is seen to be not limited to the sphere of this present life or to this earthly environment. This work is going on on a much broader scale behind this veil of the things that are seen." In the depths of the existing body of humanity, of which we form a part, are hidden all the mysteries of heaven and hell, and of those unseen wrestlings by which souls are helped on to scale the heights of glory of the one, and rescued from the chains and darkness of the other. Each one of us who shares in the Christ spirit is anointed to preach deliverance to the captives and the opening of the prison doors to them that are bound.

Our new thought about reincarnation, then, is that it is not to be viewed simply as the reinvestment of each single human person with another body for further discipline, but as the gathering up and grouping of the shattered fragments of a series of imperfect lives for further trial and advancement along the ascending scale, until finally the whole race shall become the habitation of God through the Spirit, and death shall be swallowed up in victory.

And here is the argument: The fear of death, as taught by the clergy, the fear of disease, as fostered by the doctors, and the fear of the law, as dissemi-. nated by lawyers, have created a fog of fear that has permeated us like a miasma, and cut human life short one-third, causing the brain to reel and rock at a time when it should be the serene and steadfast pilot of our lives. "What then," you ask, "shall we go back to savagery?" And my answer is, No, we must, and will, and are, going on, on to enlightenment. - ELBERT HUBBARD.

The activities of God are ever pressing on to ore righteous fulfillment.-M. EVALYN DAVIS.

Inspired by the Spirit of Truth,

It is found that when many people hold the same though there is unity, though they may be separated by thousands of miles, and that all who are connected with that unity are in touch with higher spiritual states, even Jesus Christ.

So there has gradually grown up this Society of Silent Unity in which thousands in all parts of the world join every night a 9:00 o'clock, in thinking for a few moments one thought, which i given each month in the magazine UNITY. This we call th "Class Thought," and every member is expected to hold i at least five minutes at the beginning of the silence, in order t make the unity connection; after which, "Ask what ye will in m name, and it shall be done unto you."

Certificates of membership are issued without charge t those who make personal written application for them. To mee expenses, we ask members to send us free-will offerings, as n charge is made for any service we render..

This society has been in existence about fifteen years, an has over 15,000 registered members. Through its ministr thousands have been healed mentally and physically, and it power grows stronger day by day. The silent hour is 9:00 P. M. your local time. Geographical difference in time is not a facto in spiritual unity.

Beginners usually have a great many questions to ask, an they require a course of lessons and reading. To such we recor mend the "Lessons in Truth," by H. Emilie Cady; paper, 5

UNITY is published monthly, and contains a large amount instruction. The price of it is $1.00 per year. Where mem take UNITY and the "Cady Lessons" together, we make a rat $1.35 for both.

The simple written request to be enrolled a member of Silent Unity Society is all that is required to join with us.

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