many-chambered heart such forces as shall bring to him the experiences
he requires to further unfold his nature and bring forth all his
possibilities.

Not man alone but the planet itself is in the mills of the gods. The
seeds, the germs of life that were expressed in such ways in the
beginnings of life on this world, still exist in a greatly modified
degree and the misunderstood phases of nature's ministry are the
results of the out-working of these primitive elements still inhering
in the world-stuff of which human bodies are made.

Nature wields her powers of fire and flood and devastating epidemics
mercilessly; she constantly rids herself of her superfluous offspring,
and forces them to a new environment in her invisible realms, through
which they pass, gaining more or less by the experience and from which
each must emerge, and continue to evolve and grow according to the law
of his own being.




SUPERSTITIONS.

Fear of the unknown has given birth to all the superstitions that have
afflicted the minds of ignorant and unthinking people. Few people
escape some form of superstition. For instance, the silly sayings,
anent the moon, "Fair Priestess of the Night." It is unlucky to see it
in its newness--so and so--when the real fact is, it is a merciful
Providence that permits us to see it in any of its phases, over the
left shoulder or over the right, or through the glass, or in any way at