Show reflections ANCIENT SCIENCE was not ignorant of the development of the visible universe and tho it may have had regarding it less precise notions than modern science has it had all the tame fame intuitively formulated the general laws thereof to the sages of india and egypt the boundless universe was not dead matter governed by mechanical laws but a living whole endowed with intelligence soul and will this great sacred animal had innumerable organs corresponding with its infinite faculties As in the human body movements are the result of the thinking soul the acting will so in the eyes ot of the scientists of old tile the visible order of the universe was nothing but the reflection of an invisible order that is to say ot of cosmic creative forces and spiritual entitles entitle kingdoms and species which thru their spiritual involution into matter produce the evolution of life ancient science did not extract intelligence tel telli ligen gence e from rom matter as does the materialist of today but rather matter from intelligence it did not cause tle the universe to spring into being from the blind dancz of atoms it generated atoms bv vibrations of the universal soul it proceeded in concentric circles from the universal to the particular from the invisible to the visible from pure spirit to organized I 1 substance from god to man involution prec proceeds eeds evolution and explains explain it and s ich is tile the story told in genesis the story substantiated by the implications of modern science the story demonstrated by the application of tile known and classified laws of spirit |