The builder and the plan : a textbook of the science of being / by Ursula N. Gestefeld.

  • Gestefeld, Ursula N. (Ursula Newell), 1845-1921
Date:
1901
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Credit: The builder and the plan : a textbook of the science of being / by Ursula N. Gestefeld. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Discovery multiplies and he is on the way to become the expert mathematician, for this way leads in, deeper and deeper into that fundamental changeless order compelled by governing principle. As he follows it leads him in, away from what he first naturally looked upon. It leads him from mere shapes to what is represented by those shapes; to num- bers, their values, their possible combinations and applications. From the without to the within he follows on, change to him, all the way, but no change in that which he discovers. The human soul stands before that great blackboard, the World, and sees the various figures upon it, some stationary, some moving about. “ This is all there is ” is his verdict, for this is sense evidence and true to him. Representation is all he sees, for it constitutes the visible World. He has experience, and through experience his inherent capacity to discern is quickened. It is this capacity that makes of the onlooker, the discoverer. When he discerns that Ex- pression of Principle is as Number, and he sees the visible World as its Representation, or as the Figure containing all figures, he is on the way to become an expert in the Science of Being; the way that leads in, deeper and deeper into that fundamental changeless order compelled by what God is. REMARKS. Try to trace the parallel between the Science of Numbers and the Science of Being. Each is abstract truth, the eternal. Neither can become more than it eternally is, both can be- come more and more to you. Each has its fixed fundamentals, fixed because compelled by the nature of their governing principle. To discern, understand and use these fundamentals is the necessity for you. The nature, changelessness and