The Heart of Being E-Book

Uriel Buchanan

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Experience the life-changing power of Uriel Buchanan with this unforgettable book.

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Leseprobe

The Heart of Being

Uriel Buchanan

CONTENTS

Chapter I – THE PRIMARY PROCESS OF WORLD-BUILDING

HERE are no living wit­nesses to the marvelous scenes which belong to the primary processes of world building, for in the earlier stages of the planet’s formation no individualized self-conscious life could exist. But man may read the story of the earth’s unfoldment from the hier­oglyphs of nature—from the mountain cliffs and the broad plains, from the deep valleys, the sand-swept deserts, the ma­jestic rivers and the billowy seas. From the milestones along the mysterious way, aided by the illumined vision of science, man may look back through centuries

upon centuries that had passed away be­fore the period of human existence upon this planet began—back to the time when the moving force of universal life first projected itself into crystallized form in the bosom of the earth as a mineral. He may follow the continuous and progres­sive gradations of life through its mani­festation in the protoplasmic slime in an­cient seas—ever onward through the ages of evolution, from the tiniest finny beings to the monstrous creatures that finally emerged from the bed of the Silurian ocean and crawled over vast bogs and roamed through primeval for­ests. By the destructive agencies the huge clumsy forms were broken into pieces again and again, and cast into the crucible of nature to be remoulded each time into symmetrical and fairer shapes.

Thus all forms have been slowly evolved from the gross to the delicate, from the simple to the complex, from mammoth to man. The force imprisoned in the chrysolite obeys the impulse of pro­gressive change. In its demand for on­ward march the mineral form is broken, and life repictures itself into shape after shape more and more wonderful in struc­ture. The strength and power that first bound the atoms in the solid rock, now paints the flower with tints of wondrous, beauty, grows in the foliage, lives in the trembling leaves, opens broadly in the sunlight and is kissed by the wooing breeze. Slowly the grasp of matter re­laxes its hold, and life is evolved from the plant and the tree to the plane of animal existence, where conscious power is first made manifest through instinct and love. The cruder forces of animal strength be­gin to respond to the influence of mind, until the dumb creatures of the higher order of the animal kingdom approach the threshold of that domain that belongs to the dignity and glory of man.

The primitive races of mankind dwelt in caves, in rude huts and beneath twisted boughs. Tribes were separated by unex­plored regions. Man wandered at will through unclaimed forests. Continents were divided by mysterious and unsailed seas. But the movement of the palpable life stream has flooded the world, and carried forward on its slow-moving tide the people of every continent.

Those who have explored the ancient ruins which survive in many lands, find the symbols of the same mystery graven upon the walls. Identical symbols were used by tribes on opposite parts of the globe, even in that far-off time when the world was young and the race was simple and untaught—long before cables of steel had united the continents and long before ships had navigated the seas. One of the earliest emblems used to express the in­visible forces of nature and the perpetual life of the human race was that of the serpent. While the symbol of the serpent has an important place in the magical lore of Egypt, and in the sacerdotal mysteries of all Oriental lands, it was also used as a sacred emblem by the primitive races of America, and is a prominent figure among the surviving works of the mound builders. Hence we see that the races of mankind, even in the long ago, were united by the invisible currents of thought which flowed from one source and impelled humanity upward toward the manifestation of an exalted destiny. And from century to century we see a gradual unfoldment of the human race, which has never been left entirely guide- less in the dark or unled by the eternal light, but has evolved from stage to stage along the ascending spiral of destiny, manifesting in greater fullness the power and supremacy of mind.

Thus life, with all the mysteries that en­shroud it, with all the pain and joy that accompany it, has flowed on in an ever- widening stream, coursing through the veins of the rude and uncultured, whose thoughts are only of the visible things surrounding daily life—on, ever on— awakening at times to a vague con­sciousness, then receding to the realm of the unmanifest, to come again with re­newed forces, pulsating now to the heart- throbs of genius; and thus will it continue to flow, until it has scintillated through every influence that the stream of pro­gression claims. Life is an eternal un- foldment, and love of life is an unerring instinct whose aspirations are the woongs of the Infinite.

Chapter II – MAN’S PROGRESS

Man has toiled tirelessly in his search for knowledge; and by his power and gen­ius he has transformed the face of nature into symmetry and beauty. He has felled the forests and reared in their place cities and empires; he has spanned the rivers, crossed the continents with railways, and conquered the adverse waves of the sea, over which he rides swiftly and fearlessly by the magic power of resistless steam. He has cunningly enslaved the elements of the world and subjected even the wind and the lightning to his command. The telegraphs and cables have annihilated space and time, and brought the people of every land into closer and more vital re­lation with each other. He has taken dull clay and shaped it into a beauteous vase; a block of marble, and chiseled it into a perfect image of the ideal form; a string and piece of wood, and made a sweet­voiced violin. At his command waste places have blossomed into gardens of luxuriance. Fire and air, electricity and light, have been subdued to his useful service. The printing press has made us acquainted with the noble thoughts and deeds of the great men of every age— with the heroes, who have spent their lives for others; the poets and orators, who have charmed the world with elo­quence and song; the painters and sculp­tors, who have created immortal forms with brush and chisel; the composers, who have interpreted the melody of sound; and the philosophers, who have searched the depths of being and learned the secrets of the stars. These marvel­ous achievements, and many more, have been recorded, and such things will en­lighten and encourage the generations yet to be.

Reason, at first rude and untaught, has become radiant with knowledge and crowned with jeweled thoughts as beauti­ful and vast as the sky of stars. Affection, once narrow and selfish, has grown to a love and sympathy that is broad and true. Man’s marvelous skill in the fine arts, his wondrous handicrafts, his magic power and mastery in every department of nature, together with his trained reason and the maturity of his heart and con­science, rightly place him on a height far upon the road of attainment. But his triumph is incomplete. There are still heights unsealed and depths unfathomed.