Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII CREATIVE AGENCIES OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE "From unreality lead me to the real; from darkness to light; from death to Immortality." Tagore. "The soul, from the fact of its being of the same essence as all creation, possesses a marvelous power. One who possesses the secret is enabled to rise in science, and all knowledge as high as his imagination will carry him; but he does that only on the condition of becoming closely united with this universal force." Cicero. " De Natura Deorum." NO one can live at his best until the mystic indwelling spirit of the Christ has entered into the personal life as its organizing force, as the source of thought, as the promoter and inspirer of the application of thought to purpose and affairs. The suggestions that are leading to an increasing recognition of the indwelling spirit and to increasing reliance on its power, are universal. These aids are by no means limited to sects, cults, or to religious and ethical teachers. One finds William James saying that the hours that he spent with Agassiz so impressed him with the difference between the abstractionists and those who lived in the light of the world's concrete fulness that he was never able to forget it. Similar affirmations might be made regarding nearly all the great scientists. The question of the spir- itualization of life is one that receives illumination from every phase of human inquiry and knowledge. For what need I of book or priest, Or sibyl from the mummied East, When every star is Bethlehem Star ? The relations of man to God emerge from the merely abstract and are more and more brought within the definite grasp of every order of life. From Plato to Eucken is seen an unbroken chain of man's quest for the divine. Nor need one too greatly concern himself ...