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BELIEF IN GOD

Causes of Atheism and Non-Belief

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FALLACIOUS DOCTRINES

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a new trial-hence there would be no. "experience." Memory, there-i

fore, exists before experience.

Memory is the power of forming! a mental image or idea of some- thing previously known or ob served. This Indicates that some! kind of knowledge or understand-

CANTON'S WAR Planes Active on the West River

WARNING TO CIVILIANS

In a lecture to the Theoso-ing also comes before experience.

Canton, Monday. phical Society, Hong Kong Lodge, The knowledge or understand- To avoid unnecessary destruction Mr. E. H. Othen said, in part:- Ing which exists prior to experi-to the civilians from bombs dropped Modern civilisation is concern-ence is not, of course, of that con- down by planes, General Chan Chal. ed principally with the rush and crete kind which deals with the tong and Yut Woon-yim have jointly bustle, the necessities, and the affairs of mundane life. Rather sent out a proclamation to the popu- amusements, of this physical life. does it consist of innate ideas, or lace on the upper West River dis- Hence, perhaps, the prevalence of intuitions, of such abstract (but,tricts, warning them to move away the idea that a belief in God, or nevertheless, very real) principles on the arrival of robele.

According to intelligence from anything of a spiritual nature, is as "goodness," "truth," "beauty," evidence of a second rate intel- and so on. Using these innate the Aviation Department in Nan- lect and/or an over-developed ideas. either consciously or un-king, the 'planes Kinning and emotional system. This attitude consciously, as a basis, the aver- Chongtu will shortly be sent to the of mind is expressed in three age individual can, and does, ar South to assist in the campaign ways, firstly a3 atheism, which is rive at a certain understanding against the dronsides and Kwangsi. a total disbelief in God or any-and so on. Using these innate Ites. thing of a spiritual nature; aecond-creatures, which he would never ly, as aguontietam which is the attain solely by experience.

belief that humanity is too micro- acopic, too unintelligent, to know whether thee is or is not a God;|

to speak.

Leading To Scepticism

The denial of the existence of

Disposition of Troops

With the cessation of war activi tles, the dispositions of the 6th and 8th Route Army are now reported as follows:

General Taol Ting-kai of the 60th thirdly, "butterflyinm." which is these innate ideas is another pro-Division along Shumchl and Paklau: evidenced by a persistent refusal tific cause of agnosticism, leading, General Yu Hon-mou of the 59th to think about anything whatever as it does, to scepticism regarding Division along Tengyuan and except "having a good time" as the truth and reality of first prin: Talwu; General Chiang Kwong-nel the phrase goes. Time, and a few ciples. This denial is largely due of the 61st Division along Yung- "hard knocks," are the best cures to a misunderstanding of the real yann; General L! Yang-king of the for this latter attitude of mind, nature of Ideas, as well as of the 63rd Division along Mungkong; but the sufferer from atheism or manner in which they are said to General Heung Hon-ping of the agnosticism is oftimes a genuine be innate. An iden, in the philo- 62nd Division along Wuchow and seeker after truth who has tem-sophical sense. Is "a perception Yunghu; General Mao Feng-wen of porarily "gone off the rafls" so of an intelligible principle of the 8th Division at Wuchow; Truth and Reality"-such as the General Tan Tao-yuan of the 50th "Sensism"

idea of Unity, or the idea of Be- Division along Tungan and Hoi- The commonest cause of theing, or the idea of "Trath." That chien, the east of Kwangs!-Kwang- denial of the reality of God is such idens are innate in the tung border; General Hau Hoi- what may best bo termed human mind does not necessarily cheung of the 3rd Independent "sensism"-the belief that all mean that the mind is fully con- Brigade may be despatched to human knowledge originates from,scious of them. They may be in Loting from Wuchow, and Colonel and is bounded by, the senses. the "aubconscious," so to speak, Chang Chi-ying along the southern 3A, Wyndham Street, Tel. 0.22 | The argument is that, since the in which case they exist only section of Kwangtung. → Canton

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ed mind in two ways, one prac- common to us all at times. We tical, the other by reasoning. so often forget that the value of The practical demonstration La reason is determined by the truth the work of the Paychical Re-or falsity of the foundation on search Societies and of the vari- which it is built. If the basic as- ous Spiritualistic organisations. sumption is incorrect, the most Paychical research does not, of accurate chain of reasoning leads course, attempt to prove the real to a false conclusion. Given a ity of God-that is bayond its true and sound basis on which to scope-but it has undoubtedly de-start, reason leads thevitably to monstrated that there is some right conclusions, provided it kind of existence after death, and be rightly exercised. Such a that thought can be transmitted basis. I would suggest, ls to be from one mind to the other with found only in those self evident out the aid of the known sense first principles to which I have channels. I do not claim that all referred. that is taught in the name of Spiritualism is true-much less than "all" is necessary to under- mine the dogma of materialism.

Definition of Matter

The fallacy of the materialis tic conception of the Universe is, I think. capable of being proved by reason somewhat along the fol- lowing lines. Matter, it is said,

Necessity Of Nest Principles

The notion is very prevalent that first principles are abstract, hazy, sort of things-theories in- vented by religious minded people in order to bolster up their con- ception of a beneficent Supreme Being. Not at all. The absolute necessity of first principles be comes self-evident if we consider is Everything That Is all that we the effects of any attempt to deny know

as human consciousness, them completely, or dispense with thought, emotion, and so on, arise them entirely. For example, sup- out of matter. Moreover they pose it is denied that there is must receive their power to arise such a thing as Absolute Trath, out of matter from matter itself. the statement being that all truth | This is tantamount to saying that is relative. This claim Introduces matter has power to act of itself.a contradiction in terms, for the Against this we can point out recognition of relative trath pre- that It has been the universal ob- supposes the idea of Absolute servation of all humanity that Truth, Moreover every sane mind matter Le passive-It is that

can conceive the idea of unity be which is acted upon, having no yond duality, and therefore can power, to

act of itself alone. have the idea if not the con- Hence, if all things arise from, aciousness-of Absolute. Truth be- and return to, matter, the power yond relative truth. Again, it is which enables them to do ao must impossible to think the negation necessarily come from a source of all truth, or to think there is outalda matter. This power (ac- no truth, for the mind cannot tive cause) is what most of us think of "no truth" without im- mean by "God."

plicitly recognising the Idea or Another common cause of athe notion of "truth.". Hence the Ism and agnosticism is to be mind inherently possesses the idea found in a form of philosophy of truth; consequently truth cau sometimes known as "empiricism." be known by the mind, and all Empiricism, in a nutshell, is the rasl, thought is self-evident proof theory that all human knowledge of the fact.

If

is the result of experience.

in some such manner as the this theory were true, it would be impossible to know directly any the reality and the certitude of foregoing may be demonstrated thing not of the physical universal First Principles, which them -consequently the abstract and

spiritual would forever, remain un salves are attributes of that ul- known, a conclusion which few of mate First Principle of all Prin us would be willing to accept as

ciples which we call "God." final.

What Memory -Is

I think that all will agree that experience depends on memory, for without a remembrance of previous acts, every act would be

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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RUSSIAN ADMIRAL PASSES

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