DID YOU KNOW?

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11371, 24 April 1915, Page 9

DID YOU KNOW?

Lawyers are men; and judges are men. All laws are and we're made by men; all priests and preachers are men ; all religions were made and formulated by men. Have you got that? Well, remember also: That all books were written by men; That all the justice we know is man's justice; That what we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God; That this idea changes as man changes; That all love is man's lore; And all compassion, man's compassion ; And all sympathy, nian'a sympathy. And all forgiveness, man's forgiveness ; And that there Is nothing finer, greater, nobler in the world than man; t And that all beings, spirits and persons greater than man have been, and are, the creation of man's mind; And thai; man is not yet created, but only in the process of creation; And that in Iris present transitional stage he has partially abandoned intuition without fully getting control of Eis intellect; i And that all laws, creeds and dogmas are only of transient valtie, if of value at all'; and should be eliminated when they no longer minister to human happiness; And that now, for the first time in the history of the world, a very large number or people know these things, and are exeroismg their brains; And that, the brain is an organ and grows strong by use; And that through right-thinking we are gradually learning to control our bodies, our 'tempera, our desires, or imaginations; And that the imagination is a searchlight that reveals tho future j And that by the use of imagination we now see Paradise ahead; a Paradise of increasing effort, work, endeavour, and increasing power; a Paradise of this world, that is to oome through health, work, simplicity, honesty, mutuality, reciprocity and love.