The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

known, these truths will disarm forever the
powers of darkness, and open to men the
Heavenly world where their Divine Inherit.
ance is, and has always been, in keeping for
them where all their dear ones dwell who
exerted aud how evil is perpetuated. Wher
have not wandered to the neither sphere, and
where we may trust those. too. who have been
SO lost will be gathered when the doors of its
hells shall be closed.
My life has been long preserved only for
the accomplishment of this work which the
unsleeping enemies of the race. who will be
constrained by the realization OF its promise to
change their sensuous, vicious, or criminal
lives for better, have ever prevented and still
prevent; and when accomplished, | shall be
released and then, and not before, the world
will open its ears to the great truths with
which have been and shall yet be supplied
in the interest of the human race, which my
unexampled sufferings will be seen to have
illustrated. Then every mans happiness will
become all mems care.
The public will understand that my OBJ ect
is solely to be enabled to bequeath this legacy,
which is in my possession to mankind An
other work, consisting Of mass of writing run
ming through my life time, preserved but never
published, will be used Unnecessary as further
means to this end. But the aid needed is not
considerable.
Address T. H. H., 32I Soledad street.
My dear son, have measurably exp aimed
to you in these papers that the cause Of all the
worlds sufferings is that men live right
against the spiritual laws, but | have not yet
explained to you that the phenomenal cause
of the sufferngs of my social life, in which you
have been compelled to have part, has been
that have lived right against the social laws.
You will discern my meaning perfectly on
reading the following paper, written by me
under impression long ago, and when did
not know that it was an interior thinning Of
myself.
CHARACTER.
There is kind of man whose type is rarely
recognized. He is a person who never lives
on the social plane, that is to say, under the
human laws, but ever alternates between the
animal and spiritual kingdoms. When this
person is not moved by physical wants he
lives in the spiritual kingdom, and under the
spiritual laws taking no heed of human or So
ca laws or conditions. When constrained by
such wants, whatever they be, he occupies the
animal plane till they are satisfied, and then
returns again to the spiritual. When
any of the many antagonisms that human
conditions constantly interpose are in his way,
he perceives them as violations of the laws of
his being, or spiritual laws, and whatever efforts
his worldly interests might mpel him to make
to bring himself into harmony with such an
tagonisms, they could be but rarely successful.
Associations with men are not sought by him
because not in sympathy with the social life,
and only in congenial company through his
consciousness of spiritual associations. He,
hence, is known to men only on the animal
Dlape when Under the in Auenre IF his Gem
suous or worldly wants. There he is likewise
governed, as all animals are governed, by the
laws of being, or divine laws, or, if by
human laws, only so through constraint, and
is without anything on the artificial or social
plane to tie to. So that this person is so or
ganized as to be without the safeguards men
provide for the social life, which they live de-
family of the laws God has provided for their
government. Everything is thus against him.
A mans ability to take care Of himself in this
social world is necessarily abridged just in the
degree to which he is governed by the spir-
itual laws, because the social world is not in
harmony with the spiritual laws or, rather, be-
cause it has placed itself in direct antagonism
to them. Such capacities therefore as are not
required in the human life.which men ought to
live, and do not live, he is without, as caution
or prudence because in the spiritual kingdom
there is no such thing known or comprehend |
ed, it being faculty with which the brute, or
animal, is exclusively endowed for its safety
Or, as the care for money. He will not real |
ize his social relations to money but at inter-
walls Of need, when under human conditions it |
becomes necessary to him. 1t will only then
occupy his thought. And so of the love of
praise, distinction, fame, on the one hand, and
fear of blame, detraction, censure on the other,
nothing Of which can be known or conceived
in the spiritual kingdom where every man is
his own Judge, and answers only to himself for
what he does, thinks, or is, and where no man
desires to, or can, contravene the law of an
others being. These are the laws of human
life as well, and of all worlds equally, and
hence this character is in reality perfectly
national or rational one. The type would be
universal on earth if men lived under the spir-
itual laws, or if their human laws were in har-
mony with them. The sensuous or mortal
man does not recognize or perceive the human
life in the divine sense, which is a spiritual
life; and the intelligence supplied by the
human mind for that use, he uses for creating
false conditions, and making laws for his tenn
poral and sensuous purposes, which are neces-
sarily the inversion of the divine laws because
the physica. and spiritual are opposite condi-
tons. What then is likely to become of such
person; who is obliged to live and yet can
not, in the world that men have constructed
by overriding the Divine authority; who is
without the incentives or motives which actu-
ate those around him in what they do, are, or
become; to whom wealth seems danger and