Category: The Secret of the Universe
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The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan R. Wood, CONCLUSION,THE RIDDLES OF THE UNIVERSE
The explanation of the things of the universe—Which explains which?—The reason of the universe—The Divine Method of Work—The Deeper Mysteries—The Riddle of the Universe and the Secret of the Universe. The Trinity, imaged in the universal law of Triunity, explains the deep things of the universe. It shows why space…
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The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan R. Wood,THE PROBLEM OF ÆSTHETICS, OR THE BEAUTIFUL
The unvarying factors in human creative work—”Why are they?”—”Which is most vital?”—The problem of Æsthetics. “Where is beauty?”—”All are right”—The Formula of the Universe. It is reasonable to ask, “Does the being of the Creator, which explains so much about His creations, and especially about that wonderful creation, man, explain…
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The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan R. Wood, THE PROBLEM OF REALITY, OR THE TRUE
How the mind sees things—Why things are universals and particulars and things-as-related-to-others—Which one is real?—The forms of pure reason. Why they are what they are—Forms of thought versus outer realities—Which are more real? The mighty answer. This Triunity underlies the forms of reality. Human reason sees things as percepts,—that means…
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The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan R. Wood, THE PROBLEM OF ETHICS,OR THE GOOD
It should be no surprise to us to find that moral action is based in its structure on that Triunity which is the reflection of the Being of God. Would that all moral action were based in its character upon the Being of God! But in its structure, whether its…
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The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan R. Wood, THE PROBLEM OF CHANGE AND PROGRESS
Change and changelessness in the universe—What is the law of progress and fixity?—Evolution not a universal law of progress—The Law of Changeless Change, or the Universal Law of Progress—The Law of Progress practically applied—Laboratory proofs of the Law of Progress. It is certain that the universe is one of continuous…
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The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan R. Wood, THE PROBLEM OF BEING, OR EXISTENCE
The real Fourth Dimension—In how many elements do things happen?—The mighty Principle and Process of the Universe—”Being” versus “Becoming,” in the light of the Process of the Universe—The Being of God in the Light of Space And now we have come to the point where we can gather together certain…
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The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan R. Wood, THE PROBLEM OF RELATIVITY
What is the Fourth Dimension?—Is time the fourth dimension?—The principle of the “light-year”—The Multiplication Table of Space, Motion and Time—The formula of the physicist—What you cannot do with space, motion and time—The Absolute Relationships of Space, Motion and Time—In how many dimensions do events occur?—The Formula of the True Relativity.…
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The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan R. Wood, The Problem, of Space, Motion and Time.
How Time comes in the physical world—The organic relation of space, matter and time—What Time does—The triunity of the three—How Time connects the mind with the universe—The true and universal Relativity—The Vast Outline of the Universe—Why we can comprehend the universe—A real universe There remains a third set of relations…
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The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan R. Wood, PART II. THE PROBLEMS OF THE UNIVERSE
INTRODUCTION. THE SECRET OF ALL THINGS THE Triunity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit reflected and expressed in the triunities of space, matter, time and man is the secret of the universe. It is the key to the many riddles of the universe. It shows why things are as they…
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The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan R. Wood, THE PATTERN OF THE UNIVERSE, THE DEMAND OF THE UNIVERSE, # 3
The Challenge of the Facts—The first demand, and its astonishing answer—The Equation of the Universe—The second demand—”An invention?”—”A speculation?”—”A tendency?”—The third demand—The Axioms of the Being of God—The Vast Demand of the Universe—Not a philosophy of God but a philosophy of the universe—The Test of the Facts—The Challenge of Absolute…
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The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan R. Wood, THE PATTERN OF THE UNIVERSE, PART 2. THE INNER UNIVERSE
The inner universe.—Human existence—Why is it what it is?—Famous failures to meet the tests—Selfrealization, or how we recognize ourselves, and what it reflects—Self-determination, or how we decide things, and what it reflects—”Personal existence itself”—The marvelous series of facts—Even three personal centres of consciousness—”The whole of personal life”—”A perfect human likeness”—”In…
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The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan R. Wood, PART I. THE PATTERN OF THE UNIVERSE, I. THE OUTER UNIVERSE
Why is the universe what it is?—Is it really a universe?—What is its structure?—The basic things—Space—Matter—Time—”Is there a universal principle?” —The Equation of the Universe—How far does the structure of the universe extend?—How the being of God was presented to us—The Data classified—What Space is—What Matter is—What Time is—The Structure…
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The Secret of the Universe, by Nathan R. Wood, Introduction
“God, Man and Matter”byNATHAN R. WOODNew York: F. H. Revel & Co.[1932]INTRODUCTION WHEN the Hebrew Singer, marvelling at the fact of which he had no doubt, that man is visited by God, exclaimed “When I consider Thy Heavens,” he was undoubtedly comparing the apparent littleness of man with the vastness…
Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded 