Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1930
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Credit: Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Apart from all puzzles of Theology, that is the oimple truth. We are immortal beings, with a great destiny before each individual one of us; and we are sur¬ rounded by a host of helpers, with whom indeed I know that it is possible to have communion,—not continually, but at times and seasons. Henceforth we may appeal to our Elder Brother, who once dwelt as we do on the planet, and who is still carry¬ ing on his work in a spirit of love and sympathy, with an extraordinary omni¬ present power to help. He did not leave us comfortless, his Spirit came to us, and abides with us, unless in our terrible free¬ dom and self-sufficiency we reject the helping hand. He told us the Kingdom of Heaven was within us. He showed us the heights to which man could rise. It is suggested that in bodily form he was the earthly Incarnation of a Being existent through all eternity, who has assisted all along in the process of evolu¬ tion, so that without him was not anything made that was made, and who came to tell us plainly of the Father. On such a complex subject we should not dogmatise :
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