GENERAL CAUSES OF DISEASE 63when at the zenith; but, as a matter of fact, we know
that they do not gain in size by descending toward the
horizon, nor lose by ascending into the mid-heaven.
Thus we are constantly making allowances for and
correcting sense illusions; similarly, with everything
else in the world. What seems to be true is not always
so, and what is true today regarding conditions of life
may change tomorrow. Therefore it is impossible for
us to know truth in the ultimate under the evanescent
and illusory conditions of physical existence.
It is only when we enter the higher realms, and
particularly into the Region of Concrete Thought, that
the eternal verities are to be perceived; hence we must
necessarily make mistakes again and again, even
despite our most earnest efforts always to know and
tell the truth. On that account it is impossible for us to
build a thoroughly harmonious vehicle. Were that
possible, such a body would really be immortal, and
we know that immortality in the flesh is not the design
of God. Paul says that “flesh and blood cannot inherit
the kingdom of God.”
But we know that even today only a very small
percentage are ready to live as near the truth as they
see it, to confess it and profess it before men by
service and by righteous and harmless living. We can
only understand that such must have been few and far
between in the bygone days, when man had not
evolved the altruism that came to this planet with the
advent of our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus. The
standards of morality were much lower then and the
love of truth almost negligible in the greater part of