Editorial July 6, 1946 Issue

Life at First Hand

Margaret Morrison

No other subject has more occupied the thoughts of men than the question as to the origin of man and the universe. Where and when and how did things begin: the first seed, the first star, the first man?

Believing the great First Cause to be unknowable or as yet unknown, the human mind confines its reasoning to secondary causes in the realm of the material senses —so mankind never learns to know Life at first hand. Thus human so-called life and experiences remain secondhand until the Christ, Truth, comes to human consciousness to reveal that which is first. Mythical in their nature, having no origin in Mind, in reality, the material senses exist only in the realm of supposition; the supposition that intelligence and life derive from nonintelligence, and that matter exists as the effect of its opposite, Mind.

One reads with interest of a group of scholarly men spending months in the jungle studying anthropoid apes, hoping to find the "missing link" that would prove man's development from those apes, the belief being that they are man's immediate ancestors. What caused the apes to be, they do not attempt to tell.

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