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 OHSEEN FORCES" 
 
 A. LECTUI^E 
 
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 PROF. W. SEYMOUR, 
 
 PlirenologiBt and Psychologist. ^ \ 
 
 DELIVERED IN 
 
 ^BI^OAD^A^AY HALL* 
 
 TORONTO, Oct, 23nd. 1891. 
 
 I^Kl'ORTED VERBATIM By JOEL A2VAKD. 
 
 W. SEYMOUII & OON., PRiNTERa. 
 33 Richmond ST.. EAr<T. 
 TOROMTO, ONT. • 
 
 
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"ONSEEN FORCES" 
 
 A LECTURE 
 
 BY 
 
 PROFESSOR WM. SEYMOUR, 
 
 Phrenologist t and # Psychologist. 
 
 DELIVERED IN 
 BI^OADWAY HALL, 
 
 Toronto, Oct. 22nd, 1891. 
 
 Reported Verbatim, by Joel Ward. 
 
 W. Seymour & Son., Printers, 
 
 33 RICHMOND ST., EAST. 
 TORONTO, ONT. 
 
UNSEEN FORCES 
 
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 "UNSEEN FORCES" 
 
 Ci 
 
 LECTURE 
 
 .HE hour has amved for us to commence 
 the exercises of the evening. The sub- 
 ject which we have annonced for our dis- 
 course is that of '* Unseen Forces." And as I 
 shall depend largely upon the concentration 
 of your minds for what I may olTer upon the 
 subject, I trust that you will give me your un- 
 divided attention ; that by so doing, I may be 
 able to reflect more fully the aggregation of 
 your thoughts, and surpass in knowledge and 
 expression my own individual conceptions, or 
 the conceptions of any single mind who has 
 assembled here to night. 
 
UNSEEN FORCES 
 
 For as an iiis[)i rational speaker, standing be- 
 fore an intelligent au(lien(;e, (such as have 
 gather(»d liere this evening,) I am satisfied 
 tliat it is possible, and liigldy probable, for 
 me to give expression to ideas beyond my own 
 knowledge. And if your minds are concen- 
 trated upon the subject, with an earnest de- 
 sire for the truth, I have no doubt but that 
 we shall be mutually benefited by what I 
 may offer, as a reflex of your minds. 
 
 The subject of ''Unseen Forces," is one 
 which cannot fail to interest us all, because 
 it is one which more or less effects us all. To 
 every part of ''God's great Universe" there is 
 a twofold nature. There is the "seen" and 
 the "unseen." And in all nature, so far as we 
 have learned we are governed by what we 
 term the Laws of "atlxc^ction and repulsion," 
 or in other words by positive and negative for- 
 ces. In the 4th, Chapter of 2nd, Cor., and 18 
 verse, the apostle Paul has declared "While 
 we look not for the things that are seen, 
 but for the things which are not seen : 
 for the things which are seen are temporal, 
 but the things which are not seen are etern- 
 al." Now what may we gather from such a 
 
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 statement? That all ohjectivk natikk is sub- 
 ject to change. That so far as the physirial 
 universe is concerned, that which now is, is 
 not that which was or that which shall be. 
 
 The OBJECTivp] UNIVERSE iu which we live 
 is a negative. What I mean by negative is, 
 that which is acted upon; tV'.at which in it- 
 self is destitute of voluntary motion; and such 
 we declare to be the condi!ion of a^I that we 
 c^Tj cognize with our external senses. Hence 
 where there is no volition there is no power. 
 
 It is true that the reare many conditions of 
 force where there is no voluntarv moiion ; 
 such as the destructive elements of the Torna- 
 do or the flashing lightning destroying the 
 Forests or demolishing a City : but while w^e 
 may seem to realize in all this a terrific power 
 or force, when we rightly consider the facts 
 vje shall learn that what seem to us to be 
 the power is only a result. The power is un- 
 seen, and may be traced back through the 
 ages, until in our conceptions we reach a 
 designing Mind ; whose comprehensive vision 
 has penetrated the future, and beholding the 
 conditions necessary for the evolution and de- 
 velopments of Nature has provided a law con- 
 
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 UNSEEN FORCES 
 
 troling these events; that out of these seem- 
 ing Catastrophies the harmony and happiness 
 of the future may be wrought. 
 
 I take the position this evening that 
 all power belongs to what we call spirit or 
 MIND and not to matter. Matter possesses no 
 voluntary action, but is ever subject to being 
 acted upon. This is true of our bodies, as it is 
 of the physical universe around us. And hence 
 by a study of the unseen forces of nature 
 around us, and of ourselves, we may learn the 
 truth of what is meant by ''Man being creat- 
 ed in the image of God :" and which has led 
 to that theological doctrine that "being creat- 
 ed in the Image of God Man was made per- 
 fect." This doctrine does not apply to the 
 visible part of man but to the invisible ; not 
 to the physical but to the spiritual. As a 
 physical instrument for the manifestations of 
 intelligence, I do not believe that man ever 
 stood as high or so closely approximated perfec- 
 tion as at the present time. In the unseen spir- 
 itual essence of man's nature he is perfect in 
 possibilities and in this sense, and this sense 
 only can he be considered an expression of 
 the' 'Image of God." The possibilities of man's 
 
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 ypiritual imfoldnieiit have no limit: and as a 
 Microcosm of the Universe, we may behold in 
 man (in degree) all the Attributes of Diety. 
 Let me illustrate. What are the Attributes 
 of Diety? 1st;— -that He is a Spirit; that He 
 is invisible. Omnipresent, Omnicient, and 
 Omnipotent. 
 
 1st; Then, God is a Spirit, and as such He 
 is invisible. I know that there are a great 
 many persons who claim to see Spirits, but 
 with all respect to the great body of Spirit- 
 ualists, who undoubtedly are conscientious in 
 their belief I assert to night that Spirit has 
 never been seen by mortal eye. Now^ this at- 
 tribute of Spirit, which I term invisibility 
 applies to the spiritual nature of man. 
 
 Man is a spiritual being, and as such the 
 real man who smiles and weeps, sympathizes 
 in sorrow, rejoices in the prosperity of his fel- 
 lowman, and has the power to will and act, is 
 also invisible, I know we are wont to recog- 
 nize mankind in their physical form ; hence if 
 after listening to me to-night and gazing upon 
 my body you were asked in the future if you 
 had ever seen W. Seymour, you would at once 
 answer *yes!' and yet the man who is doing the 
 
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 talking is as invisible as God Himself. Hence 
 every request we make of one another, every 
 command or threat we may determine, is a 
 direct appeal to the invisible and spiritual 
 within. So true is this position that no one 
 would thinfo. of asking a favor of, or inflicting 
 punishment upon the body when the spirit 
 has taken its flight, although the body (or 
 physical form) is all that the external senses 
 has ever been able to take cognizance of. 
 Next to man being a spirit and consequent- 
 ly invisible ; he is omnipresent, that is, so far 
 as we can understand the relation between 
 body and spirit : beholding man as a dual be- 
 ing, (that is to say, having both body and 
 spirit) we behold in him an epitome of nature . 
 Hence his physical is governed by the laws of 
 chemistry, and in its relation to the physical 
 universe is of itself a miniture world. His 
 spiritual nature is governed by the laws of 
 psychology, and in its relation to the body 
 (or world of matter) is in degree and essence 
 a miniture God, hence whatever be the com- 
 ponent parts or the nature of the spirit, its 
 presence permeates every atom of the physical 
 body^ so that not the slightest injury is done 
 
UNSEEN FORCES 
 
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 to any part, without the consciousness of the 
 Spirit ; hence the omnipresence of the spirit 
 of man to this little world, (the body) may 
 readily be conceived and admitted. Again, 
 taking another view of man's existence, we 
 may learn something more concerning the ex- 
 istence of God. We have said that another 
 attribute ascribed to God is that of Omni- 
 science, and if we but carefully consider the 
 powers of man's mentality and its modes of op- 
 eration we shall also find that even in this 
 there is a striking similarity so far as the fi- 
 nite can represent the infinite. In all the 
 mechanical inventions and devices of man for 
 the well being of society, there is a projection 
 of consciousness so as to behold the end from 
 the beginning: hence his fore-knowledge. 
 But there is still another attribute in man 
 that represents the infinite in degree, 
 which is his intellectual power. In relation to 
 body and spirit, there seems to be no limit to 
 the power of man's intellect. The body seems 
 to respond involuntarily to almost every con- 
 dition of the mind, which clearly shows the 
 omnipotent power of the spirit over the body, 
 or mind over matter. 
 
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 Here then I have shown you in what re- 
 spect man was created in the ^'linage of God." 
 Not that man was created perfect in fokm and 
 figure; it remained for him to be developed. 
 He was created perfect in possibilities, 
 through the obedience to the laws which gov- 
 erns and control] s his existence. These 
 possibilities are in the human mind, and in 
 the manifestations of the human mind govern- 
 ing and controlling the little physical world 
 in which it dwells, (the body) we behold a 
 microcosm of the universe, and a miniture 
 counterpart of God. And although none of 
 us have as yet reached a very high degree of 
 perfection in the unfoldmeiit of our natures; 
 by the unseen possibilities working within us, 
 the human family are continually rising in 
 the scale of perfection, onward and upward, 
 nearer and nearer to the Infinite Mind, whose 
 DIVINE perfection may be seen regulating and 
 controlling Sun, Moon and Stars : for in the 
 opening flowers budding forth in spring time, 
 the verdure of the sward, the beauty of the 
 hillside, the majesty and glory of the moun- 
 tain, the gentle droppings of the shower, the 
 sparkling dewdrops, the murmuring brook, 
 
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 the Ocean's roar and lightning's flash; yea 
 from the foundation stone to the last touch of 
 God's pencil upon the Temple of the Universe 
 we discover the visible responses of what we 
 term Matter to the harmonious conditions of 
 an Infinite Mind. 
 
 When I hear the Atheist attempting to 
 ridicule the Bible, and hurling forth his firey 
 shafts of SARCASM against the Christian who 
 believes it, as I have heard them in the queens 
 PARK on many occasions, (referring to the im- 
 perfect forms of physical manhood as a count- 
 erpart of the christians God) I have often 
 felt ashamed that there was not a believer, 
 who was able to defend, or wiio cared enough 
 for the defence of Christianity and the wel- 
 fare of his fellowman, to get up and throw 
 some light upon the dark benighted pathway 
 of these poor blind materialists, who seem 
 never to believe there is anything in nature 
 except that against which they can bump 
 their heads. 
 
 I tell you my friends to night, there is an 
 unseen power in nature greater than the 
 Mind of Man ! And although w^e may not bfe 
 able to comprehend its personality ; through 
 
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 a study of the unseen forces of our own Being, 
 and its contact with Nature, we may learn 
 something of the nature and character of God. 
 Although the controlling power of Mind 
 in man is manifested in every impulse and 
 act of life, we may learn from a careful study 
 of the operations of nature, that Man cannot 
 dwell in close proximity to the grossest forms 
 of Matter. 1 here are seven Cycles or Spheres 
 through which the mind must pass before it 
 can come in contact with the grossest forms of 
 matter. Let me explain, in the first j)lace 
 mind comes in contact with Electricity, elec- 
 tricity touches Nerve-fluid, nerve-fluid touch- 
 es Nerve, nerve controls Muscle, muscle touch- 
 es Bone, bone touches Flesh, flesh touch- 
 es Skin and skin touches the world of matter 
 outside of our own personality. And as a 
 proof of this position you may unconsciously 
 remove a piece of skin from your finger and 
 then bring that finger in contact with some 
 piece of dense matter, you at once realize an 
 unpleasant sensation: you quickly withdraw 
 your finger from the object and examine it 
 with the remark, ''I have scrached the skin 
 from my finger some way"! Now why this un- 
 
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 pleasant sensation? Simply because you are 
 treading on forbidden grounds, you have 
 allowed your mind to come in too close prox- 
 imity to the grosser forms of matter, and if 
 you should continue this encroachment from 
 flesh to bone and bone to muscle and muscle 
 to nerve and so on until you reach the electric 
 fluids, you would render your Body an unfit 
 habitation for the "indwelling Spirit", 
 and your conscious Ego would at once take 
 its departure back to the spiritual elements of 
 Nature, or In other words 'Return to God who 
 gave it." 
 
 And as the laws controlling mind and mat- 
 ter are the manifestations of a Divine power, 
 these laws must be consistant with the nature 
 and character of God. Hence the mind of 
 God can no more come in direct contact with 
 dense matter than can the inind of Man. 
 And the more spiritualized man is; the less he 
 become engrossed with those pursuits of life 
 which holds him in communion with the 
 grosser forms of matter, and the nearer he 
 lives to God, the more powerfully does he 
 feel the influences of the Holy Spirit. 
 
 But again as we perceive electricity to be 
 
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 the immediate covering of the Spirit in Man, 
 so do we conceive electricity to be the imme- 
 diate Body of God. And although this ele- 
 ment of matter which we call Electricity is 
 so sublimated or subtil that we can scarcely 
 conceive its organic form, yet from the posi- 
 tion which we have shown in the commence- 
 ment of our lecture that all matter is nega- 
 tive, if electricity is a propei'ty of Matter, 
 (and such we beleive it is) then electricity is 
 subject to control : and if subject to control, 
 then it is organic. 
 
 Hence we conceive electricity to be the 
 spiritual organized body of God. And through 
 the possibilities of His Mind controlling the 
 body, and the Omnipresence of the unseen 
 powers of His Electric Body permeating 
 every part of Mie universe from the finest to 
 the grossest, we proportionately may under- 
 stand the Nature of God, as we may under- 
 stand the nature of Man. 
 
 But I must not close the lecture of this 
 evening without dwelling somewhat upon the 
 unseen forces with which we are ever contend- 
 ing, as a result of the thoughts we conceive, 
 the spirit we imbibe and the dispositions of 
 
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 ions of 
 
 mind that actuate our conduct through life. 
 Tlie Bible declares that ''we are to be brought 
 Into judgement'' not only for the words we 
 speak and the acts we perform, but also ''for 
 the thoughts we think." And if this is true, 
 then thought itself must have a substantial 
 influence upon character. And when we take 
 into consideration the fact that the manifes- 
 tations of thought through an organized brain 
 depends, not so much upon the Amount of 
 brain as upon the Measure of Convolutions 
 in the brain through which it is manifested, 
 we may rationally infer that thought is a sub- 
 stance, and as such it occupies space ; and 
 that occupying space it is subject to the law 
 of organization, and in an organized form it 
 becomes an unseen power which more or less 
 controls our destiny. 
 
 Hence I have often thought from a study 
 ot Psychology, (which is the philosophy of 
 unseen forces) that it may be, the lawyer who 
 pleads, the jury who condemns and the judge 
 who passes sentence upon the criminal are 
 proportionately guilty of the crimes commit- 
 ted in the community in which they live. For 
 if as we have shown our thoughts are subject 
 
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 to chemical caffmity and consequently subject 
 to organization, then like must attract like, 
 and the evil thought and vindictive spirit, 
 (which reason and good breeding prevents us 
 from making manifest to the world) will soon 
 become a powerful factor in the unseen forces 
 which crowd themselves upon those whose 
 natures will conform with such sentiments 
 until their animal propensities are secretly 
 stirred to deeds of evil : for which I may say, 
 they are often harshly, if not unjustly, pun- 
 ished. 
 
 If we would have the world grow better ; if 
 we would prevent crime and promote right- 
 eousness, let us study these unseen forces; 
 let us keep our minds pure in thought, and 
 with holy purposes and anxious hearts, reach 
 upward in our aspirations for light, which 
 will help us more fully to discover truth 
 that we may understand our relationship to 
 one another, and the influence which the un- 
 seen powers of our mind bear upon the con- 
 duct of each other. I thank you for the atten- 
 tion you have given me and leave the subject 
 with you. 
 
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