75.
January 28th. The first step in peopling these worlds with the
appropriate living forms is virtually miracle. Nor in one case is there
less of mystery in the act than in the other. The second birth is
scarcely less perplexing to the theologian than the first to the
embryologist. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 76.
January 29th. There may be cases--they are probably in the majority--
where the moment of contact with the Living Spirit, though sudden, has
been obscure. But the real moment and the conscious moment are two
different things. Science pronounces nothing as to the conscious moment.
If it did, it would probably say that that was seldom the real moment--
The moment of birth in the natural world is not a conscious moment--we
do not know we are born till long afterward. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p.
93.
January 30th. The stumbling-block to most minds is perhaps less the mere
existence of the unseen than the want of definition, the apparently
hopeless vagueness, and not least, the delight in this vagueness as mere
vagueness by some who look upon this as the mark of quality in Spiritual
things. It will be at least something to tell earnest seekers that the
Spiritual World is not a castle in the air, of an architecture unknown
to earth or heaven, but a fair ordered realm furnished with many familiar
things and ruled by well-remembered Laws.
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