The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-02
THE SUMMER LAND.
LECrURE BY ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS

6ho esprit Land"
uPpmAL REPORT PoR THE EVENING TELEGRAPH. ]
Yesterday morning there was large and
eained assemblage of people gathered in Wash
ington Han to listen to the noted spirItualstic
orStor, Andrew jackson Davis. His subject
Vas THE Formation, Location, and Scenery OF
the Summer Land" The following is the lee
tuTe:-
A SHORT TREATISE ON oLAIRvoYANoE.
Clairyoyance, when cultivated for the purpose
OfEroWth and spiritual development, brings with
If the whole light OF wisdom, Wnen cultivated
for personal success, IL results in the darkness
offOlly, ehsrlatansm, mountaineering, fortune
telling, sOOthsayng, and peerIng into other
peoples secrets. On one side you have the un-
selfish and the progress consequent upon IL, and
on the other of personal motives cultivated with
the express purpose of being personally bene-
hted, you have degradation; and the latter,
like the inversion Of divine principles govern
nag life and human nature, is the most disas-
tYOus and awful picture for contemplation. ALI
attempts to reach the Eternal through personal
success and hope to be personally crowned,
are but the attempts to raise luxurant garden
on desert twenty feet deep with sand. Through
the cultivation of these mediumIstic powers the
great scroll OF the Eternal and the real unrols
more and more. This progressive power begins
IN the Divine impersonal principles OF nature
rooted in those inpersonal principles of which
We are composed; and its fruit, like its rOOtage
is In the heavens,
a SCIENTIFIC AEALYzATIoN OF THE SUMNER LAND.
IulS nhIVebL laOO COuSlSUG OIL the gathering
together of the products of the innumerable
planets in boundess space. The meaning OF
the term spirit world" is known, after much
research by, the erudite as any place where
there is anything human. person elevated
thousand feet in the air, or a million leagues, is
in the spirit world no more than you are. This
b because human existence is always the same.
The term summer landn was let down out of
the clear ether from large society who have
devoted themselves 10 the examination aud the
comprehension of the just and most public in
nNk hat Nfafn and an
thesis with all the autumnal and Winter-clad
worlds from which that world derives its
population. The terms spirit world" "better
world" and summer land,p are one in mean
ing, and might be more beautifully expressed,
'the eternal in the heavens"
WHAT THE SUMNER LAND IS.
The Summer Land, from all the better lands
cut OF which 1t Is conceived, signifies reposi-
tory-a land garnering up and gathering toge-
ther all the results OF these countless belts of
human-producing planets. The formation of
this land, coming directly within the sphere of
scientific learning, makes its theory easy of
comprehension, for it proceeds on the same
principles which govern this planet which we
eail the earth. Here we ind in the world, at the
basis, primates; again we find, ascending out of
the roots of the world, proximates; and in the
fruitage and branches of the flowers of the
world, the ultimate. These constitute the
foundation OF the planet. Now, by scientific
analy zation, we learn that all is beneath man
IN the constitution of the planet II it were
not sO higher order OF anatomy and physi-
olOgy would supersede ours.
The present human race is not the ultimate,
but higher order of humanity, from which q
more perfect image and likeness are the inevi-
table products OF the ages to come. All in the
world, beneath us, around us, is founded in the
human constitution. There is in his anatomy
the physiology of the organs and fuGctions, and
essentially the principles which constitute the
whole being. He is, therefore, the grand work
ing body for the refinement OF all nature.
RHE PRINCIPLES OF PLANETARY FORMATION.
The formation of the planet you can see how
these principles, as 1t were, descend spiral
starr, and with every lowering step, they have
brought things more and more palpably into
being; not that things substantial could come
from an unsubstantial formation, but they come
from what was before impalpable and invisible
to these senses which we possess.
We have first ideas, and ideas in their totality
constitute a divine existence, and these same
IDEAS separated distributed, and crystallized
through the boundless universe, constitute the
external manifestations OF that divine existence,
The systematic manner in which this planet
AIRY formation proceeds is, first, ideas; then the
principles which govern them; laws which
govern principles; ethers which govern laws
Vapors which govern ethers. Another step
down and we have fluids which govern vapors
then succeeds solids which govern fluids, and
these last constitute the earth upon which We
hive. Go up the stairs and you have solids
fluids, vapors, ethers, laws, principles, ideas
God. Herein we deduce the fact that the prin
eiple of formation is the principle of cooling.
AS those powers and substances which hoa
out of the fountain centres of ethereal fire
come down. they become palpable, tangible, an(
organic. Now this is q simple lesson but it i
the divine key which unlocks all the rules o
our Fathers house. You carry with you, il
YOUR body, mysteries of the universe Just in pro
portion to your ability TO comprehend them
The material that concerns the earth and uni
verse was at one time no more visible to sucl
eyes as ours than the atmosphere in this room.
ANATOMY coNTRAsTED WITH VEGETABLE PRoDUC
TIoN.
The nervous system is beautiful and intri
cate vegetation, worthy Of studious contempla
ton. We go down to the flowers and founda
tiOns of the world and find vegetation; bu
nothing to compare with the branches an
branchlets of the nervous system of humal
being 10 fact, the whole vegetable world ha
It's ultimate in the nervous organism of tn
human body. We seek to find beautiful arch
tectural developments of mans skill, and struC
lures of the universe outside of the planetar
systems. None can equal the perfection of tn
head. There we find all beautiful lines and pos
sibe frames of architecture and anatomci
formation. All the beauties of construction az
gathered together aud deposited in the huma
Bensorium
THE CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF THE SUMNER LAM
Suppose now we should at once seek th
matter requisite TO form another eXstenC
adapted to man after he shall have complete
the balance of this life, How shall we obtai
materials out OF which thus to frame worl
for him? We shall obtain it out of the mechansI
which is the highest in the order of organi
beings q Look at the soil in your garden an
YOU ind the ultimate substance that had ono
been in human bodies-the particles that ha
entered into the human physiology and anatC
~ fIaaU atofi oft fha Cnr