New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-12-11

meat steam, and In that form you perceive II AC'
ing on the ma chaery II an engine ana driving zoe
boat or the car Here the effect "a orderly ana
beautiful because the inaax OF the steam meets
with Al adapted organism In the iron machinery
D..ceDdin1 decree lower, yO0 hnd this steam
in the ,,rrn OF water Ia this form II may tarn tue
wheels OF q uih bat II could never propei tue
seam engine. The forms would not suit The
agent.
Continuing our descent downward, We come 70
the same essential element in the form oil sno"
aud ice and here It's active power = aPDa'on'5
doadeued - inertia
Coor-ooolate then. the same principle az the
two extr.raittes OF the cham. AT the one. yo1
a.. N :. ,abtls vapor Of immense activity inten-
stv ana force: as the Other cold. sluggish, iuer -
mass. Il Is the same agent, existing IN different
degrees.
az hrst blush inehaDy strange that the DIVINE love
ana wisdom should as really constitute the essen
tal lie o tree or Of shrub, as that Of an angelor
q man and yet how AVOID the issue II he
alone mas lite Ia HIMSELF not % say that the *
PLANTATION now given renders the position more IN
telig1ble and credible. "Ihe idea Of life, says
our author which IL God, cannot be had unless
an idea Of degrees be also obtained. BY which lie
oesccnds from rs nlnost principles 70 ultimates.-
There Is an Utmost degree 81 life, and there Is an
Ultimate degree OF lie and there intermediate
degrees Of iie the distinction Of which ~. as be
tween things prior and things posterlor, for pos
terror degree exists from a prior one and 30 icrth
such degrees Of life are In every man from crce
ti0n and they are opened according % the recep-
tiOn OF lite from the Lord Those degrees are
called degrees Of the life OF man, bat they are de
grees o. his wisdom and love, because they are
opened according % the reception Of wisdom and
love thus, OF life from the Lord. Such degrees Of
he are. also, IN every organ in ell the "iscera
and members Of the body, aud they act ~ unity
with the degrees OF lie IN the brain By influx
the skin. the carriages and the bones constituting
their ultimate degree. The reason why such de.
grees are in man Is, because such are the degrees
Of the lie which proceeds from the LORD but ma tne
Lord they are life. whereas in man they are recip-
ients Of life"
Now that there are these three degrees Of life
potentially ia every mao, aud which may be sue
oes5iyoly opened is as certain as that m the bud
O the peach are potentially the skln' the pup and
the 9it OF the fruit, which are successivey de-
yelOped These degrees OF life Ia man correspond
- The three Heavens--the Celestial in which love
is the dominant prncIple-the Spiritual, m winch
wisdom more especially relgns, aud the Ultimate
la winch the two principles OF love and wisdom
are more equally mixed, so that neither larry pre-
pOnderstes The lowest Of these degrees IN man
Is The external, or natnra or sensual, by which he
IS allied 70 the inferior animals, and, IN TACT, be-
CONES british Just ia proportion as he yields 10 that
the sscendency. The next is the spiritual. close
y related 90 the rational, by which man Is superior
70 the animal tribes, by means OF II he can think
sensual voluntarily restraining its vicious sppe
tencies which the brute beasts are utterly incaPa
bic Of doing
The third and highest is that degree by which
Man IS brought into closer and more immediate
relations with the Divine love and more capable
OF exercising the proper functions OF ms nature.
Now our position il that the Divine life flows
by graduated influx into these several depart
Inonts. 50 20 speak, OF the mind OF Man, and WV
hes them each In their measure. This IS, IN fact
tho very essence OF regeneration, 10 communicate
lite 10 the spiritual and celestial faculties, by the
iniowings OF the Divine Love and Wisdom, or
Goodness and Truth, for the more OF these prlnci-
pies has the more real life be has say
real life, for II is this only which is recognized IN
the Word as lie in IT'S genuine sense The wicked,
though they Ernst, cannot properly be said 20 hre
Upoa this head the teachings Of the &" instructed
SCRIBE " Of the New Church are very explicit. |
Even the wicked IA He'll are forms recipient Of
lie iIom the Lor, but such forms as reject sutfo.
cato or prevent the iniux of good aud truth, and
th.s convert them 70 evils and ialsties. This
elect IS illustrated in the case of the light aud
heat OF the Sun, which, according TO the nature
and quality OF the substances acted upon, will
develop beautiful coors and grateful odors, or d.
reotly and Extensively the reverse.
Thus, says our author II is with the light or lite
from the Lord with the wicked but this life il not
lite, bot Is, as II is called IN the Word, spiritual
death Speaking, again, IN one Of the Revelations,
OF certain spirits whom he terms " ratiocnatOrs,
who objected to this idea Of spiritual life being the
only true HE that nevertheless such as are IN no in
tellgence Of truth will OF good still live" IL was
given he says, 10 reply 20 them that the life OF
Tie wicked appeared to them TO be life, but still
that It "a the life which is called spiritual death
which they might know nom this that, since to
understand truth and 20 will good is life from the
Divine, then that 10 understand what is false aud
d will what Is evil cannot be life because evils
ana talses contrary 10 life ITSELF
There are several other propositions OF some
what scientific character connected with this sub
locL on which bad hoped 10 be able to eXpatiste
las, for instance that as there is no independent
50 there is ISOLATED life In the created universe
that there is such connected chain OF being, such
an iuterrelatlOn aud Misrepresentation of the dit
iereut parts OF the intelligent universe that one
being can 40 more hive apart from associated be-
ings thsu one member or organ of the human body
can live aud perform its functions apart from the
rest. Bat upon this and other topics time viii not
permit expansion. | must hasten TO close by
Offering few remarks with a view 10 redeem the
subject from the charge OF being merely of speou
lailge or scientific interest
Aud. First We see from the foregoing presenta
ton ct the theme that human lite is the existence
OF human beings, or IN other words, that there is
no such thing, IN prOpuety of speech, as a ritai
PriNcips IN mans body, distinct from his spirit as
a complex OF affections aud intellect There are
vital functions but no vital principle consequent
N, there Is no such thing extinction of lite, even
Ia the crisis Oi death. A inan dies and Ii is com
mon 20 say that ms life but this cannot be
unless his being ceases, FOR his hie in the esse OF
his being, and IN nothing else While he was
In the body, his spirit that Is. his being was
the proxlmate cause OF certain vital functions
and when the cause is removed the effect ceases
but the lite of the man IS commensurate with the
eternity Of his existence.
Secondly We see In view OF our subject, the
connection between mans lite, physically con
sidered, and his life morally considered. that is
his COnduct-course Of acting The usages OF Ian
gaage have IN way established thss Pc
cahsr,ty OF diction, in regard to the word ls, but
the grounds Of II are not obvious. upon any other
theory than that Of the New Church, as PROFOUND.
ed through Swedenborg. Let HE be regarded as
Acaled Ia q mans love and thoughts-the very
2rimorciS elements OF his being aud the prompt
i,g soarce Of all his acton-and You have at
onoe the ground developed ON which the con
dac, IS expressed by the terra be- for lie in
this sense Is always Ms the ruling love. Ii IS the
liked and necessary exponent OF that love. Aud
Us The love and the lie are thus related in tins
world, 50 are they also IN the next. Every
love- says one well qualified &C. bear witaess