Know Thyself

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 15, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 42.

“Know Thyself.”—Prof. E. L. Larkin, of Mount Lowe Observatory, Cal., in speaking of psychic studies, remarks:—

In fifty years it may be discovered what man is. They are just beginning to pay some attention to the ancient injunction, “Know Thyself.” At present the ignorance on that subject is deeper than on any other department of knowledge. At least the question, What is mind? is totally unanswered. The great societies for “Psychic Research,” are trying to discover at least one clue. And the question whether there is a soul, seems as far from solution as ever, scientifically.—S. F. Examiner.

And that is just what the scientific psychic philosophers have always said; they were just about to discover. Too, they have always tried to find out man, but they have sought the wrong source of knowledge. They will not find it in biological or psychological research, they will not find the source or seat of life or mind or soul in Spiritism or Theosophy. The old pagan injunction can only be met by anti-pagan methods. The ancient book of Job furnishes the key, “Acquaint now thyself with Him [God], and be at peace; thereby good shall come unto thee;”