The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-10
POSTAL GARD NO. Is.


MY DEAR SoN:-You ask me to define,
afirmatively, what the spiritual laws are.
answer that the Spiritual Laws are the laws Of
the Universe and are adapted to the govern
ment of all worlds of which it is composed,
and of all beings who inhabit them. The So
called miracles of Jesus were not probably
performed, but simply designed as illustra-
tons of the spiritual laws. The animal crea-
ton, from the minutest insect to the most
ferocious beast of the forest, and all created
beings, SO to speak, from these to the most
advanced men in the mind-world, excepting
only man here, live by these laws, or on the
Divine plan. The human being is the sole
created one that does not.
BY the spiritual law all beings are to be gov
emed by their own will. This quality is an
attribute of character and pertains to the gov
eminent of the individual. Conditions are
often such that the individual cannot be gov
erned by his own will, but all spiritual laws
are in harmony and will operate harmonious
ultimates. Conditions have to be waited for.
Every ones wish or desire is the sole law
of his CONTROL which, when exerted or made
manifest. no spiritual being in any world has
the ability or inclination to resist or oppose.
With view to educating and directing this
will wisely, every one in the body has one or
more guardian spirits whose Office it is to
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FAINT. The life here is the birth process, or
rather genesis. of the Spiritual Man. His
physical constitution is adapted to life of as
many years as willbe necessary to qualify him
to be born in his celestial home, fit to live
there. With such view the Spiritual or
front brain is designed to be applied exclu-
sively to spiritual uses. There should be no
wants or cares to exercise it, excepting such as
promote spiritual growth; the supply of all
physical wants and cares devolving by the in
finite law on those who exercise such guar
dianship over him. These are friends who
are most in sympathy with him, usually rela-
tives, and who gravtate to their situations as
an effect of spiritual law. (P. c. No. 81
BY the spiritual law every wish, and the
means of its qualification, have like simulta-
taneous and CO, equal source-are one. These
constitute Mans Di0ine inheritance. Such
means, and the supplies they are to afford, are
within the functional keeping, and constitute
the sacred and inviolable Office. of the Spirit
ual Guardian Of Man. They are exercised in
spirit life and in virtue of the Spiritual
laws. o. all this, men here are unaware, and
As the effect of not knowing it, have in place
Of their divine Inheritance, in place of universal
happiness and plenty, want, toll, misery,
crime, death, all ills, ofwhatever kind known
to mortality. This is the price paid for our
religions, which have been imposed upon US
by our foolish fears.
There are spiritual laws by which men out
of the body control those in it unconscioasly to
them, or such guardianship as that above de-
scribed could not be exercised. This control
may be of several varieties, but is of two kinds
One through the mental, the other the bodily
organism. 1t is necessarily the privilege Of
all classes of spirits-the pure and unselfsh
exercising such control in the interest of the
race, the vicious and sensuous in their own
selfish interest Mind control is by impression,
intromission, ETC., bodily control by possession
of the bodily organs. Each usually is without
The conscious cognition of those under Its in.
auence, and men do not, and can not in any
case, know anything of its character excepting
by its effects. 1t is the spiritual law that only
those in like condition are attracted by, or can
approach, each other. Hence good person
is naturally in the keeping of his guardian
spirits, and if he fall into vice goes naturally
out of it into association with vicious ones
1t is for this reason that children often are
taken away by those who best love them