, 1877-12-14

,uriositv, and in that of PrssldentI
of Browns University, to
use, merely as illustration, this pre-
sumed power of the human will to
move matter without contact through
other matter? If you conceive that
as possible and fairly within national
law, then natural law itself becomes
the magnetzation Of all matter by
tho Influence of one Omni present
will. ir which there is no variableness
or shadow Of turning. As our Wills
play upon the key board of the in
huential human nerves, so Omnisoi.
ence and Omniprescence, ,magnetizing
all worlds and their inhabitants, play
upon all infinite and eternities. The
connection of the Divine Will with
matter, may be thus obscurely re.
vcaled to US by that Of the human
will with matter. Each is a mystery;
but, if these two are kindred mys-
teries, the universe is one, and mans
passion for unity in science is salts
Ged. Matter is an effluences of the
Divine Nature, so is all finite mind,
and thus the universe is one in its
present ground of existence and in
the First Cause. In better age,
Science, lighting her lamp at that
Higher Unity, will teach that. al
though He, whom we dare not name,
transtends all natural laws, they are,
through his Immanence, literally
God, who was, and is, and is to come.
Science does this already for all who
think clearly"
Professor Cook thus spe axis of the
spiritual body:
81 believe that it isa distinct bibli-
cal doctrine that there is spiritual
body as there is a natur al body, and
that the former. has extraordinary
powers. 1t is body which appar-
emily makes nothing of passing
through what we call ordinary mat
ter. Our Lord had that body after
his resurrection. He appeared sud-
denly in the midst of his disciples,
although the doors were shut. He
had on him the scars that were not
washed out, and that in heaven had
not grown out. | tread here upon
mysteries; but the great
proposition | wish to emphasize is,
that science, in the name Of the mi.
croscope and the seal pei, begins to
whisper what revelation ages ago ut
tered in thundcrs, that there is a
spiritual body with glorious capaci-
ties.
In every leaf on the Summer
boughs there is a net work which
may be dissolved out Of the verdant
portion, and retain as a ghost the
shape which it gave the leaf from
whence it came. In every human
form as a leaf on the tree Igdrasil,
we know that network lies within
network. Each web of organs, if
taken separately, would have form
ike that Of man. There might be
placed by itself the muscular portion
If the human form, or the osseous
portion, or the veins or arteries, and
each would show the human shape.
If the nerves would be dissolved out,
md held up here, they would be a
white form coincident everywhere
With the mysterious human physical
outline. But the invisible nervous
iorce is more ethereal than this ghost
If nerves. The fluid in which the
,ervous waves occur is finer than
he nervous filaments. What if it|
,ould be separated from its environ
nent, and held up here? 1t could
rot be seen; it could not be touched.
The hand might be passed through it;
he eyes of men in their present
state could detect no trace of it; but
t could be there. The self evident
axiom, that every change must have
IN adequate cause, requires us to
% hold that there exists behind the
nerves a non-atomic etneral en-
'wathement for tho soul which death
lissolves out from all complex con-
act with mere flesh, and which
ieath, thus interfering without dis
,mbodying, leaves free before God
'or all the developement with which
iod can inspire it?