The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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-====== The Inner Life 1933 ======+====== The Inner Life ====== 
 +== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | FEBRUARY 1934 == 
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 the substance of the future, and this, by reason of the limitation of their mental processes, they can neither deal with nor apprehend. For them the Past exists as memory; the Present as fact; but the Future is for them non-existent except as a fugitive speculation of the brain. the substance of the future, and this, by reason of the limitation of their mental processes, they can neither deal with nor apprehend. For them the Past exists as memory; the Present as fact; but the Future is for them non-existent except as a fugitive speculation of the brain.
  
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 These limitations and predilections of the critics were well known, and The Shadow, as we have said, was not written for our threedimensional friends, but for those amongst us who have at least some premonitory stirrings of the fourth. Yet would we not leave even the critics unprovided for, nor the hounds without a bone upon which to try their teeth. For these, the whole matter must be presented in another guise. It must make its appeal to the brain, quite as much as to the soul: it must give them Cause, and Reason, and logical Deduction. So, while The Shadow was written for the psychically awakened ones, The Tocsin was written for those whose consciousness centres more easily in the region of mental and moral concepts. These limitations and predilections of the critics were well known, and The Shadow, as we have said, was not written for our threedimensional friends, but for those amongst us who have at least some premonitory stirrings of the fourth. Yet would we not leave even the critics unprovided for, nor the hounds without a bone upon which to try their teeth. For these, the whole matter must be presented in another guise. It must make its appeal to the brain, quite as much as to the soul: it must give them Cause, and Reason, and logical Deduction. So, while The Shadow was written for the psychically awakened ones, The Tocsin was written for those whose consciousness centres more easily in the region of mental and moral concepts.
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