The Word Volume 8
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. ...its application to material ends, may become a mathematical genius, but will be defective in other respects. The development of genius alone is not the best development, as it is not that of a balanced nature. A balanced nature develops all faculties equally and uses the mind to acquire knowledge of all things. The development of such a man is slower than that of a genius, but it is surer. He acquires not only knowledge and use of the senses and faculties in their relation to the world, but acquires the spiritual faculties and powers which gain him entrance into all worlds above the physical, whereas the ultimate attainment of a genius is only the ability to use the_ genius of his faculty on its line. As a race we are entering the sign Sagittary ( 1 ), thought. Each century has produced its thinkers, but we are entering a period in which thought, as thought, will be recognized, its reality, possibilities and power will be more and more appreciated. This is the age in which many of the old accounts must be settled and stricken off and new accounts begun. This age with the beginning of the formation of the future race is to be the season for many new mental appearances. We have long been guided by desire only in our mental operations. Desire, scorpio (111), is the sign in which the old nations and races have been working. This new era changes the conditions for growth. and development. This new era is the age of thought, and we are now and will be working in the sign of the zodiac, sagittary, thought. It is owing to season and cycle that so many new phases of thought are coming into existence. There is an inrush of the old races in the formation of the new race which is beginning in America. In America have sprung up new systems of thought,...