The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-15

the Universe contains, while the tempora
mind IS without other elements or capacities
than such as are indispensable to the uses OF
the temporal life, that is to say, to enable the
real man to become fitted for birth, be safely
born, and started on the Road of Life Eternal.
EIGHTH. The Laws of Life are the laws OF
man S being as the Laws of the Universe are
the Laws OF Gods Being; and these laws are
'he same. All systems; all worlds, kingdoms,
spheres, planes. whatever called; all substance
commonly distinguished as spiritual and mate
RAJ; are governed by the same laws-whic are
the Spiritual Laws. There are no other. If a
human being fall from a housetop, the law by
which his natural body descends to the earth.
is the same as that by which, ifkiIlcd. his in,
terror body. or soul, will ascend to its proper
| place IN the skies; the same as that by which
ne, Man, the Mind in such case will pass
directly to his congenial circle OF minds in the
spiritual country. 1t is variously called attrac-
uon, gravltatlon, affection, affinity, etc, and is
that quality which inheres in every a.uln of
nil"d or matter IN existence, and draws to il its
kind
Ninth. The human life, lived in CONFIRM
lty to the laws of mans being, or spiritual
laws, differs from the life above in quality
only, not in kind; the nature which surrounds
us differs from that above, however remote. in
quality only, not in kind. Our Divine Author
could not, by placing us here, have qualified
us 10 live any lie but one which resembles
th's'" which is this life reaching ever and tor
ever 10 higher perfection, however exquisite
and glorious may be that attained.
ZENITH. Impressions concerning the phi
.oSoPhy OF the senses, as seeing, ETC., are not
IN place here. The Divine Ability dapts the
eye o1 the body to the uses of the body-ne-
cessarly on its appropriate plane only. Hence
the eye OF the natural body ees only natural
OBJECTS and the eye of the spiritual body only
spiritual objects. A disembodied person
standing by me sees my spirit form, not nv /
natural. RE does not see the walls that sur
[ound me- but looks through them into space.
ABOVE US, IN what we know as space, are land
ana water, hlils and valleys, forests and cities
as mere Dut the human eye looks upward
l IN, them to the natural worlds beyond.
,,i mere IS no reason binding on the Infinite
VISION ny winch glass may be transparent
more than granite or by which the latter should
necessarily interpose any obstacle to vision
)ne substance may be thus transparent oras
'accuum,to one vision, and another substance
20 t. another vision.
ELEVENTH. Mind is born At the natural
birth is born the natural body and at the ;
pirituai birth Tor death) the spiritual body. or
ou'. But mind from the beginning of being |
las access 10 an spheres or worlds if its own I
ohol'ion qualities 1t to pass into them. In S
ne hrst period, or during natural CESSATION. it ,
as not yet acquired tn" intelligence, or will. h
or any motive for visiting the spiritual coun-
y. IN the second period, or during spiritual Il
estatlon, although not yet born with its souI.
ody INTO Its natural world, we may suppose It
lie Child of Heaven attracted to its native tC
and. One third of the existence on earth is
Dent IN the body's sleep. Yet mind never p
eePS nor Pauses from the pursuit of the high
II g0od 1t is capable of perceiving is never d
le' knows no rest but in doing What then -,
oeS mind during these intervals of the bodv's ,
eep! When sleep shuts the door of con-
'ousness in the house of flesh it glides into st
), future home and there lives its true life.
men al death we pass into that home every
ing mere IS familiar to us, and the interior
emory recalls the incidents of the life there
ed from early childhood, as the external
l wELFTH. The interior mind and bodv -
rive from the external a condition CORE. .
ending with its quality, or the moral char
ter of its life. All spiritual elements in the
ternaI, the good deeds we do, the thoughts
which we aspire, the lives we actually n
e, and the warnings through which we Y
zen to truer and better. the highest qualities (
our a. nature, our purest thoughts and deep y
anectl2ns, IN short the spiritual essence of
u, IN mind and body, are being perpetuaIy y
rked INTO our interior lives and are event. u
~ TO constitute our being in the world 4
mortal. And if evil usurp the rightful place II
al this good. the mind of Man cannot real
by ITS thought any impression of the trial ~
Will await 1t before it shall catch glimpse "
ne sublime mountains. or behold the cities I6
forests, of its native and.
Your FATHER.
nat IS meant here by "this life" is the spiritual
"hiCh human beings are constituted to live but II