THE EQUINOX
6. We are Philanthropists, ever eagerly transmitting our
knowledge of those facts to others.
7. Further, we are Syncretists, taking truth from all
systems, ancient and modern; and Eclectics, ruthlessly dis-
carding the inessential factors in any one system, however
perfect.
IV
1. Faith, Life, Philosophy have failed.
2. Science is already established.
3. Mysticism, being based on pure experience, is always a
vital force; but owing to the lack of trained observation, has
always been a massof error. Spiritual Experience, interpreted
in the terms of Intellect, is distorted; just as sunrise shows
the grass green and the sea blue. Both were invisible until
sunrise; yet the diversity of colour is not in the sun, but in the
objects on which its light falls, and their contradiction does
not prove the sun to be an illusion.
4. We shall correct Mysticism (or Illuminism) by Science,
and expiain Science by Illuminism.
Vv
1. We have one method, that of Science.
2. We have one aim, that of Religion.
VI
There was once an Inhabitant in a land called Utopia
who complained to the Water Company that his water was
impure.
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