The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-29
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NV DEAR Son Il have to-day to answer
vour question, GLOW is the fulure life like the
life we live here, or ought to live, and all
worlds to come like this world?'
With view to an understanding OF my re-
ply to this question it is quite as necessary
that YOU should have explained to you the
ear,h's genesis as that Of Man. And as do
not propose to delay my replies to your ques-
,ions while furnish another series OF tables
on Generation, will endeavor to make my
self ineligible to you by comprising, in what
write. whatever on that subject it is necessary
you should know.
will here briefly give you some idea OF the
character and situation of the spiritual worlds,
and Of their relation to natural worlds. Our
earth, and the planets of our solar system, are
n few of these. While every one OF the stars
YOU behold, and millions you can not behold,
in the sidereal heavens are central suns with
systems of their own; many OF them, as
Won are aware, of such magnitude that
side them. An explanation, therefore, OF the
character and situation of our little world,
physical and spiritual, will describe equally all
others. 1t will suffice for that purpose to say
that our natural world has the place of the
core of the apple, while the spiritual spheres
ascend, discreted upward in the degree OF their
L.auty aid perfection, to its circumference.
There is thus a vast stretch of our earth's
spiritworlds over our heads, surrounding us
as our atmosphere, which extend Just so far as
the sub,lest spritual: Essence contained in our
planet reaches, where, on the border OF the
Great Universal Heavens, are situated our
hiqhest. or celestial homes. These, and all
the beautiful, intervening spirit-worlds, move
with the earth upon its axis, move with the
earth around the sun, are as much earth as the
plane we inhabi', are all natural worlds, as
ours, but more refined and exquisite in the de-
gree of their remoteness. P. {. on Gen.
table 10Y The celestial country which bord-
ers the Great Sea is, like this, world
of grass, streams, birds and all crea-
lures that are desired, flowers, forests,
and splendor as mind here could not
dream, nor heart desire, and as only Infinite
Goodness could suggest and Infinite Wisdom
plan. There can not be any voids in the
Heavens; forests and cities stretch over the
plains, and the magnificent hills stand with
their crests in the golden sun, while day is as a
perpetual morning; and in all, and amid
all, dwell only those beings who have had
their births in our natural world, or in some
other natural world. There, and in all worlds,
melodious streams murmur amid grassy slopes,
and fragrant airs delight the senses with their
tides of rapture You will understand this as
being said but to aid you in obtaining COM
prehensiye idea of the character of these
worlds. 1t would be idle else to speak thus,
for no mind can comprehend what is not with
in its experience, or to which it can not prac-
tically reach.
Our celestial world is thus the ocean shore
from which we may embark and make the
tour of the Empyrean. In the lar centuries,
long hence to be born, you and |, together,
will make the journey Of the stars; for the
whole boundlesS, inconceivable Heavens will
be open to us when we get to the beach of that
Great Shore, and we may visit thence such
worlds as our condition will qualify us to enter
But still farther on toward the inconceivable In
finite, or unimaginable Forever, there will be
endless worlds whose sublimity it will not
yet be our privilege to approach. The earth
mind can make nothing of thus sailing infinite
seas, or reaching with its thou ght vast eterni-
ties, more than butterfly sailing in patch
of sunshine.
The natural world, so-called, is the birth
world Of both the natural and spiritual man.