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goal of triumph and perfect bliss. Induct it into the repose and blessedness of pure thought by educating the thinkable nature the intellectual faculties. Bring to it the knowledge of truth, of power. of right of good, by revaling and declaring by such methods the possibilities of its own selfhood. In one sentence, the method I advocate is that of self-recognition-the education of all the faculties of body and of soul, devoutly recognising responsibility to the Infinite or universal good. Such propagandism, whatever it may be supposed to lack, would never want success, would never fail to nieet with responsive co-operation in all lands among all people and would from the start and for ever make the world better and better,
SYMBOLISM.
A LECTURE DELIVERED AT WASHINGTON, D, C.
Before proceeding with the illustrative part of the lecture I shall say something generally on the science of symbolism. The ordinary idea of the Western scholars, with regard to symbols and mythical writings, is that the origin of these things is due to the primitive state of the human mind, that people began as children, in the beginning they formed their thoughts on pictures, and, later on,
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