OSCILLATING THROUGH SPACE.- EARTH'S SHELL ABOVE ME?
Posted By: Dean
"The outer circle, coat, or contour, of which you have heard others
besides myself speak, is the surface crust of our globe, the great
sphere of land and water on which man is at present an inhabitant.
This is the exposed part of the Earth, and is least desirable as a
residence. It is affected by grievous atmospheric changes, and
restless physical conditions, such as men, in order to exist in, must
fortify against at the expense of much bodily and mental energy,
which leads them, necessarily, to encourage the animal at the expense
of the ethereal. The unmodified rays of the sun produce aerial
convulsions that are marked by thermal contrasts, and other
meteorological variations, during which the heat of summer and the
cold of winter follow each other periodically and unceasingly. These
successive solar pulsations generate winds, calms, and storms, and in
order to protect himself against such exposures and changes in
material surroundings, man toils, suffers, and comes to believe that
the doom, if not the object, of life on earth is the preservation of
the earthy body. All conditions and phases of nature on this outer
crust are in an angry struggle, and this commotion envelops the
wretched home, and governs the life of man. The surrounding cyclones
of force and matter have distorted the peaceful side of what human
nature might be until the shortened life of man has become a
passionate, deplorable, sorrowful struggle for physical existence,
from the cradle to the grave. Of these facts man is practically
ignorant, although each individual is aware he is not satisfied with
his condition. If his afflictions were obvious to himself, his
existence would be typical of a life of desolation and anguish. You
know full well that the condition of the outer sphere is, as I have
described it, a bleak, turbulent surface, the roof of the earth on
which man exists, as a creeping parasite does on a rind of fruit,
exposed to the fury of the ever-present earth storms.