ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE
Sir, —In answer ■to your correspondent, M. G. Davies, obviously, the poet Masefield would not agree with R. L. Stevenson, who wrote as follows: “I shall pass this way, but once. Any good that I can do, or any kindness show, let me do it now; let me not defer it, or, neglect it, for I shall not pass along this way again."—Yours, etc., THE SOUL THAT SINNETH SHALL DIE. May 9, 1952.
Sir,—M. G. Davies has again touched on evolution. To work through the sub-conscious mind is to believe in a sub-kingdom which will not mix with the new wine. “Neither do men put wine into old bottles, else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish; but they put new wine into new bottles and both are preserved.” (Matt. 9-17.) If a child were born with preconceived spiritual knowledge, through reincarnation of the soul, then that soul must have touched, in part at least, the substance of the superconscious mind. Either we are in continuous unity with creative principle or we have no foundation for mental health. We can get nothing out of the bank of spiritual ideas unless we pay into It.—Youra, etc., SILVER NIB. May 9, 1952.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26727, 10 May 1952, Page 3
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