GNOSTIC AGNOSTICISM.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " &smarm"] am very much flattered by the notice which the Spectator has taken of my little book, "Naturoi Veritas," and I fully respect the criticism to which it has been subjected by so courteous and powerful an adversary.
Perhaps you will allow me to make a few remarks with regard to two of the points touched on in the article and review. A careless reader of what you have written might suppose that the Aldebaran Spirit described belief in God as nothing but faith in the mighty bungler who contrived the whole.
This is not what he gave me to understand. He said that, if the theory were true that the end of the universe will be the aggregation of all matter into one huge, useless, inert mass of uniform temperature, then, so dismal would be the prospect, and so purposeless the whole scheme, it would be impossible to defend the mighty bungler who contrived such a universe.
The second point refers to what the Aldebaran Spirit said about "the conception that mind will survive the strife of atoms." I should like to say that I understood the destruction to relate to the consciousness of each particular life only. The "Perennial Base" of consciousness I understood to be un- harmed.—I am, Sir, Sic.,
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