CHAPTER XXXI. A CHAPTER OF QUESTIONS

 

PROPOUNDED by Solon for the Scientific Men of the Nineteenth Century to answer

From whence do Suns obtain their light and Heat?

 

From whence do Planets obtain their solidity and Form?

 

From whence their Waters?

 

From whence their Atmospheres which surround them? From whence their Motion?

 

What is Life?

 

What is Spirit?

 

Does the Grey Matter of the Brain do any Thinking when the Spirit has departed?

 

Why not? the brain is all there! A dead man's brain weighs as much as a dying man's.

Why does not a dead man walk, think and talk? All his material organs are there just the same as before.

 

Why does not an Engine move when the Motive Power is shut off or the Steam escaped?

 

What is the cause of Steam? What the cause of Heat?

 

What is Heat? Analyze it.

 

What is Carbon?

 

What is Magnetism?

 

What is Matter, and from whence cometh it?

 

What is Ether? and what is Air? and from whence do they come?

 

What is a Germ? and from whence cometh it?

 

Do all living things—the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms—spring forth from Germs? or do they not?

 

Is there an exception to the Rule?

 

Is the Law of Evolution correct? or is it not?

 

Do living things spring forth singly? or in small Families, or Circles Evolved from Parents previously Evolved?

 

What is a Flower? and wherefore?,

 

Are all living things developed from Germs? or are they not?

 

Are Seed Germs within man or plant until manhood appears or the plant flowers?

 

Where does the flower obtain its Seed Germ? Where does Man obtain his?

 

If the Invisible Seed Germ is breathed in by Man, Animal and Plant, from Whence does it come?

 

If it exits as an Undeveloped Spiritual Germ, how is it possible for it to be Dissolved after development?

 

Is one drop of Water ever lost? or one material atom? If not, how can a Developed Spirit be lost or dissolved?

 

What is Growth? and wherefore?

 

Does Matter gather together and grow into form of its own accord? or is it the Spirit, which develops according to its own inherent form, attracting and covering itself with matter until it is developed, and able to throw it off as useless, and a clog weighing it down so that it cannot rise to brighter and fairer climes?

 

Do not all things rise outward from the earth, even the material?

 

Does not water rise up from the earth, and yet one cannot see it while rising?

 

Are there not countless millions of tons of Water floating within the atmosphere at all times?

 

Is not Spirit more ethereal than Water? Why may it not rise also without being seen?

 

Does not much of the water return to earth in rain and snow?

Is there any reason why Spirits may not also return to earth?

If, throughout Nature's vast domain, the Law of Evolution hold good without an exception, does the Law break at the formation of Systems of World's or small Families of Worlds?

 

Are they not Evolved or thrown off from parents very much like themselves?

 

If Man obtains his Wisdom entirely from Developed Spirits and Angels, is it not reasonable to suppose that the Sun is a Spiritualized World, giving Light and Heat to its material children the Planets, and to its grandchildren the Moons? And—if a completed Angel is Male and Female in, one, may not the Spiritualized Sun be in two forms, yet appear as one?

 

Is not Magnetism invisible? Is not Elementary Carbon invisible? and does not the union of the two forces result in visible Electricity, consequently Light and Heat?

 

Is not Electricity the greatest moving power which human beings can see?

 

Is not the Light and Heat of the Sun the cause of all growth and development on the Earth? and if Light and Heat, which is pure Electricity, if caused by the union of Magnetism and Carbon, are not they the invisible parents of all things?

 

Is it not through the great Law of Magnetic Attraction that all things move and thereby have their being?

 

Does not the Invisible Magnetism attract the Visible Matter and hold it together? Do not Worlds thus held together attract each other by their inherent Magnetism? and keep each the other rolling in space?

 

And when—Ye Men of Science—ye have truthfully answered all the foregoing questions, then we will ask as many more; for we here, as Angels, have solved each and every question which we herein have asked, and are perfect Masters of them all, and thousands more besides