VML-4/7/00

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There is a great discussion going on as to whether the aggregate of

materials we call the body is the cause o[ manifestation of the force

we call the soul, thought, etc., or whether it is the thought that

manifests this body. The religions of the world of course hold that

the force called thought manifests the body, and not the reverse.

There are schools of modern thought which hold that what we call

thought is simply the outcome of the adjustment of the parts of the

machine which we call body. Taking the second position that the soul

or the mass of thought, or however you may call it, is the outcome of

this machine, the outcome of the chemical and physical combinations

of matter making up the body and brain, leaves the question

unanswered. What makes the body ? What force combines the molecules

into the body form ? What force is there which takes up material from

the mass of matter around and forms my body one way, another body

another way, and so on ? What makes these infinite distinctions ? To

say that the force called soul is the outcome of the combinations of

the molecules of the body is putting the cart before the horse. How

did the combinations come; where was the force to make them ?

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" As long as you desire to fulfill the will of God and have any

hankering after eternity and God, for just so long you are not truly

poor. " -(Meister Eckhart)