attributes, the spirit will continue young, harmonious and happy throughout the countless cycles of eternity, without the sensations of age, decrepitude or decay. Spirit is not a mere element, like light or electricity, but a combination of elements and principles, beautifully and organically constituted. The spirit is something more than a disembodied essence. It is an indissoluble unity of the finest particles of matter.

ments.

The spiritual represents the finer state of material eleWe cannot see spiritual beings, because our organs of vision are too gross to see fine, sublimated matter. Neither can we express the superfinite in terms of the finite. The rare acts upon the lower, but the lower cannot act upon the rare. The ultimates cannot associate with the senses. The inner life, or ultimate sphere, associates only with the ultimates or realities. Attention to the general cause and general effect would relieve the mind from the apparent anomalies, and explain the wonderful steps in nature's unfoldings.

We are consciously alive to some mysterious power.

No boundless solitude of space,

Shall fill man's conscious soul with awe.

But everywhere his eye shall trace

The beauty of eternal law.

Sweet music from celestial isles

Shall float across the azure seas,

And flowers, where endless summer smiles,

Shall waft their perfume on the breeze.

THE SOUL IS FORM AND DOTH THE BODY MAKE.

The human form is an occultation; it masks the true Divine visage, which is the idea. The physical body is elaborated and individualized and sustained by the intermediate spiritual organization. In the center of man's inner life is

found that substantial principle, an element as real as is light and electricity, which, in our language, is termed love.

The spiritual elements of human nature, externalized through the brain media, must register the limitations and idiosyncrasies of their development; as the zephyrs fanning the cords of an Æolian harp invariably produce music corresponding with their texture and tension.

Centrally, man is most perfect spiritually; while he is most perfect materially, as the circumference of his being is reached. The thinking, spiritual principle of man cannot die; the soul records the past, present and the future; it has ideas of infinity, and ideas are the modification of the thinking principle.

All truth, all beauty, all philosophy, and all science are prophesies that mankind are to be what they thus have the power to conceive. Whoever conceives beauty demonstrates that he possesses it within himself, and that he is destined to become that which he conceives. And the power to conceive of an immortal spirit, existing independent of perishable flesh, deprived of its avoirdupois, guarantees to the conceiving spirit a future and immortal existence. The spirit in affliction goes nearer to its friends. Death is one of the stepping-stones that brings the loved ones nearer to us than they were before, because there is one mask less to divide us. The outward form is the mask; death is that which removes it from one of us, and brings the soul nearer to spiritual consciousness. We shall, in our eternal home, abide in spirit, as we are no longer able to dwell upon earth, but nearer to our dear friends perpetually. The divine dreamings of Plato, the knowledge of Dante, whose Beatrice shone in splendid vision above him, were but the glimpses of that immortal recognition that comes to the soul when kindred spirits thall recognize each other, and know that through countless myriads of years

they have traversed the heights and depths of eternity and still are not lost to one another.

The vivid tints of life, its hopes, its enthusiasms, all things have failed to enlist the soul's attention, since the dear ones departed. The heart is only sustained by the munificence of Divine love, and by the expectation of a re-union in our spirit home.

With silence only as their benediction

God's angels come,

Where in the shadow of a great affliction

The soul sits dumb.

Are not the attractions of the best faculties of human nature immortal. Is it not natural that good spirits, good men and women, should sympathize with the sorrows and misfortunes of earth? An angel's eyes are clairvoyant; spirit, in its very nature, can penetrate through all substance and space. When we arrive in our eternal home, we shall find those who are perfectly acquainted with all that we have ever done; no matter how multitudinous the floors, how thick the walls, or how many doors were locked between us and the world; just the same to angel-eyes, as though there were no walls, no floors, no doors, no locks; just as though all dwelling-houses were transparent crystal palaces, instead of thick boards and hard stones.

Guardian angels are always seeking to save and to cherish, and to make the heart of man better. Divinity, in its central life, IS LOVE. In this truth we behold the world's salvation and man's future possibilities. When a man grows above desiring selfish ends, when he arrives at that heavenly point, then will all high and eternal things be his.

All intuitive souls naturally believe that the over-arching heavens are full of eyes. This belief puts a strange and mysterious check on the play of ungoverned appetites and propensities.

Ah me! the solemn thought that man
Is compassed by such eyes as these!
That every action from his birth
A purer nature sees!

Perchance they mark not acts alone;
It may be thoughts lie open, too;
Each sin committed and conceived,
The sinless angels view.

Ah! what a sight for holy eyes,

The open heart of sinful man!
What is their pity, what their grief,
When such a sight they scan!

They see the good, whose head is crowned
With praise from every human lip,

Full of all frailty when disguise

From his weak heart they strip.

They mark how selfishness defiles

The love which men esteem most pure;
They mark how oft the virtue slips
We blindly hold most sure.

Well might we shudder at the gaze

That sees what lies most deep within,
If angels loved, like men, to mark
The weakness and the sin.

They love to succor and to heal!

In woe they soothe, in guilt reprove;

It is for kindly offices

They leave their home above.

THE SOUL CONTAINS ALL IMPERISHABLE FORCES.

The human body and soul of man represent all the immeasurable universe. Alterations in the body begin in the seed-essence of the soul. In the body, we find the focal concentration of all visible matter, and in the soul we find all the ultimates of matter. Together, they express the positive and negative hemispheres, or both sides of the universal nature. Our soul represents the spiritual, and the

body the material, department of the organized and symmetrical universelum. As the physical body contains all sublimated substances, so the soul contains all purified essences; as the body contains all perfected and concentrated forms, so the soul contains all refined and imperishable forces. In the human body we see the perfection of all material compounds, and in the soul we find the crystallization of all spiritual elements.

The treasures of the future world are all lodged in us. Man's spiritual body is elaborated and fashioned by means of his various bodily organs, from unatomized substances extracted out of air, food, water and the several imponderable principles. There is a spiritual anatomy within the physical anatomy; a spiritual physiology within the physical physiology. But man's inmost soul-his spiritual principle is a Deific essence.

Matter owns the body and will claim it. The earth will again take the dust of her corporeal child into her life-laden bosom. But the spiritual organization, with its interior essence, will be claimed and attracted to the spiritual sphere of existence, where, by the unchangeable laws of Divine Power, it is appointed an abode in the house not made with hands.

It is the nature of chemical action, in all physical bodies or substances to come to an end; but the spiritual substance is governed by greater laws. Matter is the same in every department of the universe, but it forms dissimilar organizations only as it is in various states of development and becomes differently combined. Each natural body is differently capacitated; hence, also, it is differently supplied with the soul principles. The consequence of this difference is a magnetic polarity between one body and another throughout the entire domain of nature. The consequence of this