begins are all it ever talks about. It makes no fresh contacts with reality, 
and therefore never encounters any possibly disturbing factors. This point 
of view is derived from the theory of relativity, particularly from the form 
of presentation adopted by Eddington. This theory forms a closed circle. 
The primary terms of the theory, point—events, potentials, matter (etc.—
there are ten of them), lie at various points on the circumference of the 
circle. We may start at any point and go round the circle, that is, from 
any one of these terms we can deduce the others. The primary entities of 
the theory are defined in terms of one another. In the course of this 
exercise we derive the laws of Nature studied in physics. At a certain 
point in the chain of deductions, at matter, for example, we judge that we 
are talking about something which is an objective concrete embodiment 
of our abstractions. But matter, as it occurs in physics, is no more than a 
particular set of abstractions, and our subsequent reasoning is concerned 
only with these abstractions. Such other characteristics as the objective 
reality may possess never enter our scheme. But the set of abstractions 
called matter in relativity theory do not seem to be adequate to the whole 
of our scientific knowledge of matter. There remain quantum phenomena.' 
  
     Ah! 
               "So we leave her, so we leave her, 
               Far from where her swarthy kindred roam-kindred roam 
               In the Scarlet Fever, Scarlet Fever, 
               Scarlet Fever Convalescent Home." 
  
     31. So now, no less than that chivalrous gentleman, His Grace, the 
Most Reverend the Archbishop of Canterbury, who in a recent broadcast 
confounded for ever all those infidels who had presumed to doubt the 
possibility of devils entering into swine, we have met the dragon science 
and conquered. We have seen that, however we attack the problem of 
mind, whether from the customary spiritual standpoint, or from the 
opposite corner of materialism, the result is just the same. 
     One last quotation from Mr. Sullivan. 'The universe may ultimately 
prove to be irrational. The scientific adventure may have to be given up.' 
     But that is all he knows about science, bless his little heart! We do not 
give up. 'You lied, d'Ormea, I do not repent!' The results of experiment 
are still valid for experience, and the fact that the universe turns out on 
enquiry to be unintelligible only serves to fortify our ingrained conviction 
that experience itself is reality. 
     32. We may then ask ourselves whether it is not possible to obtain 
experience of a higher order, to discover and develop the faculty of mind 
which can transcend analysis, stable against all thought by virtue of its 
own self-evident assurance. In the language of the Great White 
Brotherhood (whom I am here to represent) you cross the abyss. 'Leave 
the poor old stranded wreck'—Ruach—'and pull for the shore' of 
Neschamah. For above the abyss, it is said, as you will see if you study