By its own method it is prevented from crossing this boundary line. The Science of Being crosses it successfully and produces the accurate numeration -- that which is not only true in relation to the things seen, but demonstrably true also in relation to that whole which is not seen.

One of the greatest revelations, one even sublime, afforded by Balzac's theory of the straight line and the curve, is the fundamental truth to the appreciative student of this science.

"Your geometry," he says, "establishes that a straight line is the shortest way from one point to another, but your astronomy proves that God has proceeded by curves."

"Here, then, we find two truths equally proved by the same science -- one by the testimony of your senses, reinforced by the telescope, the other by the testimony of your mind; and yet the one contradicts the other. . . . Who shall decide between rectilinear and curvilinear geometry -- between the theory of the straight line and that of the curve? . . . . . . . . . . .

The bullet which man aims direct proceeds by a curve and when you wish to strike a certain point in space, you impel your bombshell along its cruel parabola. None of your men of science have drawn from this fact the simple deduction that the curve is the law of the material worlds and the straight line that of the Spiritual worlds; one is theory of finite creations, and the other the theory of the infinite. Man, who