The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-30
Uruc Nortberner.
SECOND EssAy-By M. MASON.

IA mentioned above, spirit is that which
thinks Wills and is emotional by the action OF
matter on il through the medium OF its senses
when in contact with matter. knowledge Is
divided into two great classes: one relates to
material bodies, and are only sensations or
crude, material effects or Impressions as they
are gathered from material objects by the soul,
out of which arise by the psychological force
another class that point out immaterial exist
encies in the world OF facts, which. when
classified, are called intellectual science, which
Is developed only by the primary effects of
matter upon the senses, called thought and
contingent intellection, both of which are
phenomenal In their nature, aud are dependent
on a material world for their development.
Now as spirit is the animus OF matter, and
causes Its motions, and various combinations
and the phenomena resulting from these
effects, as are shown in the mineral animal,
vegetable, and mental kingdoms OF nature,
are all effects OF their combined action, and
could not without their coexstencies, be in
dividualized. An idea is only an impression
on the soul by matter that causes emotion. a
retention Of which is called memory. The
soul OF man is great central termini OF lines
of communication from every department of
the material universe, that are at all times
making their impressions on it each telegram
speaking the attributes OF it's nature, and
modifying the soul by ITS force. each of which
are indIvidualized impressions. received by the
sensitive soul as ideas. Mind is the result OF
q proper arrangement of these sensations as
20 their fixed affinities, and contingent results,
which IN themselves are avenues to the cogni-
ton OF world OF immateral existencies,
called mental entities, or ideas OF intellection,
over which the soul dashes more rapidly than
the swift winged arrows Of light In it's flight,
weaving for its dress an embodiment Of di-
vine love and divine wisdom, which are &C
cumulations of knowledge, and unsopbstcated
facts, and gives form to the soul in it's modIfi-
cations in the world OF mentality, as phenomen-
al of the world of matter, which are the effects
OF matter acting on spirit, IN the phenomena
OF life. Life is condition OF matter, animated
10y spirit. and Is the effect OF it's association
with NATTER thereby rendering it organic,
which is the souls material dress, and IN which
b, may come in contact with matter, and from
Il may, rs before stated, form an intellectual
robe, independent of it's material connection.
Now as we see material world was necessary
to produce these two conditions. Thus we see
that The material world, is to the spirit or soul
as necessary to it's identity and action as
water is to the fnny tribes, that sport in Its
embrace. Without matter the soul, if it could
exist at all, would remain in latent and I'M
developed state without sensation, emotion or
mind. Mind is the result OF the action OF
matter on spirit, and is the action Of spirit on
knowledge which is a consciousness OF facts,
and is the souls clothing giving it its identity
10 man. liz the world OF mind. Now as spirit
ia necessary to give motion TO matter in the
formation OF individual objects in matter, and
these objects are the sources OF our ideas, and
cur ideas are the tenements of the soul, and
mould its rational character, and are transfer
able to other souls, and thus become the
property to whom the transfer is made, with
out any loss to the soul that thus transfer
part OF its mental properties, which are now
eliminated from matter in the world OF in
tellecton, and Is the real estate OF the soul,
bought by attention to material intelligencies,
which are only contingent effects OF the life
principle, by materiaized spirit, or spirit
clothed with material body in the objective.
on which each atom writes page Of ideas,
and each idea a page, and 30 on, to the highest
domes Of intellecton, on the lofty table lands
Of reason. knowledge is a consciousness OF
facts. Reason is that force that weighs. and
compares them. and points out their attributes,
and relations to other facts, and SO on, till
vast mental trains leading other trains OF
thought, IN the vast ocean OF reflection which
is the souls flight over its experiences and
conceptions, sending outward it's kilograms in
answer TO those received. knowledge is the
souls experiment, and Is to the soul, after it's
separation from it's material body. its only
LIVING tenement. (Reader do not smile, but
Lear with me and examine my evidences on
which have based this conclusion) First the
sum and substance OF all knowledge s a con-
scousness Of facts, and these facts can only
be received by the soul, through the material
body, by sensation from different entities in
The world Of matter, and they are gathered aud
retained by the soul, and are effects Of matter
On our material bodies, that cause the souls |
emotions, and consciousness Of existing truths, |,
or facts without which the soul would have no |
emotions, nor would il be conscious OF its own |
existence, any more so, than 1t has of it's |
existence IN the embryo man. Hence the
necessity Of the material world, as a developer
OF the soul, and means Of it's embodiment in
matter, 30 as to make it sensitive to the force
OF matter. from which to gather thoughts, an
accumulation Of which, when properly arranged
forms mind, which is the souls tenement after
death, as it now is the inner clothing of the
soul in life, with its material body. Now, we're
we shut out from the material world by the
suspension OF sensation. it seems to me that
the soul could, from its gathered experiences
continue to be emotional by this intellectual
embodiment, and retain consciousness If its
Individuality, independent of the material
body II this be not the truth, what necessity
is there tor our bodies, or a material world.
ilfe, or mind? From the foregoing facts /
infer as a necessity in the order of things IN
natures economy that as the soul of man did
exist pnor to its consciousness and was an
entity prior to Adam in an unconscious state
that 1t will not retrograde from its advanced