aces. In the process of this attainment he is ever in need of
the bestowals of the Holy Spirit. Material development may be likened to
the glass of a lamp whereas divine virtues and spiritual susceptibilities
are the light within the glass. The lamp chimney is worthless without the
light; likewise man in his material condition requires the radiance and
vivification of the divine graces and merciful attributes. Without the
presence of the Holy Spirit he is lifeless. Although physically and
mentally alive he is spiritually dead. His Holiness Christ announced,
"That which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of spirit is
spirit," meaning that man must be born again. As the babe is born into the
light of this physical world so must the physical and intellectual man be
born into the light of the world of divinity. In the matrix of the mother
the unborn child was deprived and unconscious of the world of material
existence but after its birth it beheld the wonders and beauties of a new
realm of life and being. In the world of the matrix it was utterly
ignorant and unable to conceive of these new conditions but after its
transformation it discovers the radiant sun, trees, flowers and an
infinite range of blessings and bounties awaiting it. In the human plane
and kingdom man is a captive of nature and ignorant of the divine world
until born of the breaths of the Holy Spirit out of physical conditions of
limitation and deprivation. Then he beholds the reality of the spiritual
realm and kingdom, realizes the narrow restrictions of the mere human
world of existence and becomes conscious of the unlimited and infinite
glories of the world of God. Therefore no matter how man may advance upon
the physical and intellectual plane he is ever in need of the boundless
virtues of divinity, the protection of the Holy Spirit and the face of
God.

SCIENCE

The virtues of humanity are many but science is the most noble of them
all. The distinction which man enjoys above and beyond the station of the
animal is due to this paramount virtue. It is a bestowal of God; it is not
material, it is divine. Science is an effulgence of the Sun of Reality,
the power of investigating and discovering the verities of the universe,
the means by which man finds a pathway to God. All the powers and
attributes of man are human and hereditary in origin, outcomes of nature's
processes, except the intellect, which is supernatural. Through
intell