====== The Inner Life ====== == THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | APRIL 1934 == ---- In previous articles I have endeavoured to show that during cycles such as we are now passing through, when populations are congested and the average nature of the Human Monad leans strongly to the animal side, we cannot possibly carry a very agreeable “karma,” and disagreeable experiences are inevitable. Whether we have reached the bottom of the downward curve is uncertain; probably the crisis is still ahead of us. Yet the world will in the end convalesce, as it has done on many a previous occasion, even if the mark of disease is slowly thrown off. The extraordinary wave of interest in psychic and occult research which has distinguished this last half-century and has penetrated the most conservative fastnesses of Modern Science is the most favourable sign in these difficult times. It does not matter greatly if the devotees of Spiritualism evolve untenable theories regarding life after death, or recognize the world’s notable folk in shadows or their voices from a trumpet—the great point is that an increasing multitude of the world’s best draw from spiritualistic phenomena more assurance of a persistence of consciousness beyond the grave than any modern religion can provide. Even religion itself is coming under the influence. Many of these investigators will graduate from the phenomena of the séance room to the pursuit of a more satisfying knowledge of life. Loose talk about the subconscious mind will give place to understanding. Science, for all its study of the atom, cannot yet say what matter is. It is neither aware of nor does it suspect one hundredth part of its properties. Some few know more, but the baleful intolerance of a mediæval ecclesiasticism is not yet dead. Some months ago I wrote an article for the OCCULT REVIEW entitled “The Planetary Control.” It presented {{ :3404-27.jpg |}} ---- //⥳ [[links_with_the_planetary_control|previous page]] // | // [[links_with_the_planetary_control_3|next page]] ⥴ //