Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-21
Affinity.

Affinity is Nature, and its obedience har-
mony.
The law Of Affinity is primal, and who OBJ
serves it closely shall be supported with SEN
timent and strengthened with sympathy.
More subtle than gases, more mysterious
than vegetation, the Afinities are always
tending to concord and contentmeut; are
seeking ever against selfshness and circ1m-
stance, to restore the pristine order of the
planet.
The guide of the heart and the director of
the spirit, the Affinities, if cOmprehended,
never err. They can not they are regulated
as the stars and seasons are, uniformly and
universally unchanged.
Active, ardent and acquisitiTe, they are
generated and impelled by power superior
TO themselves, and yet entirely free, vibrat-
ing between the poles of the two eternities,
as sunbeam betwixt the Heaven and the
Earth.
Much it behoOves us to learn and, follow
our Affinities, lead they where they may.
Beyond the sterile mountain is the fertile
valley; across the gloomy river are the grotto
Of peace and the grove of comfort.
The Afinities may direct us to surfaces we
do not approve; but below those surfaces are
the depths where the magnet and the music
Of existence lie.
With association and knowledge, we shall
detect, and feel, the attraction, though all
else and the outward will become absorbed
by the esoteric life.
The higher the nature, the fewer but the
stronger its Afiinities, and the more direct
their revelations.
Passion, bias, selhshness can rarely know
Afinities, since the grosser swallows up the
loftier sense.
Affinity is from spirit, and answers with
spirit only-an echo of one soul to another
that is kindred, and was when Chaos grew
to be Creation.
The Afiinities are sacred; they are oracles
of the True; the voice of the angel speak.
ing from out the cloud of terrene existence I;
the universal syllables calling back the wan
dering being to the point where divergence
of the race began. ..s.....
Unhappy he who neglects the vocation
| who, pampered with pride, morbid with
mentality or determined on sacrifice, pauses
| not to receive the solemn warning, aud to
| follow its .behet.
| Then indeed is he infidel-an atheist OF the
heart; for he denies the God that is within
himself, and rejects the Heaven, Translated
| at his feet
Affinity is Paradise Regained, and Love
the guardian at the crystal gate, through
which the glory of the psychal region beams
| Love recognizes the follower of Affinity, and
welcomes him TO the realm, where the chief
est blessing is uninterrupted freedom.
No need of disguise, no. necessity of Art
to him who is on the semi celestial plain OF
Affinity. There he may walk securely, and
the stars will lose their dizziness of light
while he contemplates their radiance.
The old and strange will become new and
familiar and the mysteries of mind and ths
secrets of spirit will be evolved by the Law
Of his own nature responding in bursts o.
music to another.
Like seeks-like is the enactment of the
universe. Every atom of the sphere gravi
tates to and attracts its own. Each, solid
gas and liquid live the philosophy of Afin
ity.
Man alone rejects or avoids Fate's fat
and often because he can not comprehend
The inner illumination is lacking, but tn,
light is growing stronger with the coursin!
ages.
The few, that are the heroes and the mar
tyrs Of humanity, the victims Of misunder
standing and misconstruction ever, have pen
etIated the truth, the good, the beauty, tn
poetry, the complete religion of Affinity
and to them are vouchsafed the wisdom AM
the compensation, with the sorrow and tn
suffering, which are yet hidden, for tn
many behind the unrisen years.
| JUNIUS,