The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-15
POSTAL GARD NO. :
Phenomena Laws and Philosophy of Cen
Grafton.

Grafton.
MY DEAR SON-Standing in sight OF tn
Doorstep of the Great Future, and unlikel
IN my worn out apparel of flesh to cross tn
threshold of another Year, l propose to re
cord the true theory of mans existence.
FIRST. There is but one life, which begin
with generation, is organized in the mother
womb and continues forever.
SECOND. The being generated is Mind
From the instant of organization it is imper.
ishable and is the sole offspring of the Infinite
Paternity or Law, and Infinite Maternity OF
Love; and this Mind is Man, the Child
THIRD. 1t is endowed with the principles
that shall govern its existence, and with all
powers necessary for every possible emer-
gcncy that can arise, in its eternal future. Its
plenary powers, voluntary and involuntary
subtletleS, potenCieS, attributes, and capacities
OF every kind, inhere. Through these il
secures the safety of its earthly or temporal life
as the means of qualifying itself for celestial or
eternal life.
FOURTH. By means of its involuntary pow
ers, all others being yet dormant it proceeds
to constitute the lmperlshable or interior BODY
or soul, and simultaneously, through its ma
terial resources, to Clothe it with material
body adapted to all the uses of the earh-life.
including ITS reproduction by species-each
body having its period and plane of CESSATION.
aid being equipped, SO TO speak, for its ap-
prOpriate destination.
FlfiH. The plane OF the material body is
the earth world, and when CESSATION is accom-
pushed 1t is born into life, with which birth all
OF us are familiar. For the uses of this life all
the human requirements of the spiritual con- |
Stllution are organized in the physical con-
sttuton, and none besides; these embrace
everything essential to the CESSATION and birth |
OF Man, the Immortal, completely qualified for
his residence in the celestial country which is
the sole object. With view to such end
mind is organized by operation of law
through the involuntary powers, for the uses
OF the earlhlfe, which we call the human
mind, IN order that, through the intelligence.
the Spiritual Laws may be known, and the
human beng guarded from all violations of
them, and conducted safely to the period of
spiritual CESSATION, which we call death-and
which can only lawfully occur when the DOW
ers of the body are completely exhausted in ,
age. The physical constitution is endowed
with the exact measure of plenary power neces-
'ary for that end
SIXTH. These exiStences are different vet
he same. One is eternal, the other temporal S
Mind, the future Man depends for perfect
)ody, or soul, upon perfect compliance on n
.arth with the Laws of Life, just as the babe v
"hiie IN Its mothers womb, depends for a t,
healthy body upon her compliance with tbe \
avs OF health. The external, both mind and "
,ody, Is the apparel of the real, which !, a
lothes from our sight. In the earth sphere tt
S in the mothers womb, they await birth p
'olh perish on the release of the soul or in 81
trior body at death But in the degree TO t,
winch this death is imperfect as a spiritual til
nth, or IN other words to which the Child 50 b,
piritually born is unprepared for the celestial T
lie, the human mind will, SO to speak, have ii,
produced itself, that is to say the Mind I'm M
loftal Will have become SO far apparelled AZ
'reSh-the external mind thus renewed. re- tn
lnlng Its office till every title of the law of wi
'lrlual CESSATION shall have been fulfilled and wi
e Child OF the Infinite Father shall bid alden fol
EARN and pass to the paternal mansions of
S celestial home.* In The celestial country
e earth-llie will be known only bv
effects, not by its history nor any of its in.
tents; all OF which, as well as the life and in.
= NINA ana body that lived for life, will 40
We passed away TO be known no more for 3
er.
SEVENTH. The essential difference between ne
;se minds, interior and external, is that the no
error mind. or Man, is a vast sphere of heinz i
Fable OF infinite development and comDriS no
all powers. conditions and nrai;,;o ha'
- WHICH am
SO merc'tuIly constituted by the Author Of on
silence that the deeds which we have outgrown owe
desire or capacity to commit fade out from the Tb
Is OF memory When the murderer, or Other h'
ihai shall have passed out of the sphere of per
lie ms memory will not retain the incidents of his and
whlie within that sphere, in other words he
nave shed all sense of the possibility of hav
committed such deeds; that, one by o e, IN
progress we cast off the States in which our n
"'' mus "''su 'o' pufer hie' fred