The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-13
POSTAL CARD NO. IL.

MY DEAR Sov-My time, so much other
wise occupied, does not, again this week, ad-
nit of long card. will answer briefly some
of your more recent questions.
You ask me if mean to say that living &C
cordine to the ten commandments is ''living
right against the spiritual laws" answer
that the conditions to which the ten COM
mandments are appropriate, or necessary. do
not belong to the spiritual life. They were
the highest manifestation that could be
reached in their day, and were designed for
the life which men had then much excuse for
living because the Spiritual Heavens were not
open to them, as now. Under lawful condi-
tons, when men shall occupy the spiritual
hemisphere of the human mind and live the
true life here, it will not be possible for them
to do the acts interdicted by the ten COM
mandments, and no motive for doing them
could exist. All, alike. belong to the artificial
plane of life on which the race is stranded.
As to Prayer: To address prayer to the
Divine Goodness with any vie7v to 0bjerti0e
results is Supremacy idle. The Infinite Father
has so constituted and so placed His Child
that his every wish is to be gratiied the
instant it has place in his consciousness; and
He has Supplied him with faculties by which
ne shall learn to wish wisely. Such is the de-
cree of the Infinite Love, which the Infinite
Law has promulgated in the spiritual consti-
tuition of every human being. 1t is thus
Divine command to every Child of the Tnfin-
lite, in all worlds alike, to see TO its fulfill
ment. There can hence be lawfully nothing
to be prayed to Him for. What there may be
to be prayed for is caused by violations of His
laws and their operation can not be suspended
by b,ay.v. What the Infinite Love demands,
and the Infinite Law exacts, of the human
race is to live under the spiritual laws. 1t is
exactly constituted for such life, of which it is
not aware, and will not permit itself to be
made aware because wholly engrossed with
the animal life. Man has faculties which en-
dow him with every requisite for living the
Divine life that are wholly unused. There is
in all the spheres Of existence not one single
obstacle to his using them and living the Di-
vine life, excepting those he has himself placed
there and may himself remove. Capacity, ad-
equate to all Divine ends, waits on will. When
he shall choose to organize and live such life
no human want will ever 60 an instant unsup-
piled. Every human wish is prayer addressed
to God whose answer is in the foundations of
the worlds
Your familiarity with the Universal Prayer
might here suggest another question; as to how
Gods will is to be done on earth. will
briAey explain. Mans will is necessarily
done on earth because man is in possession If
the earth. Hence Gods will can be done on
earth only when mans will shall, through his
wisdom, conform to Gods will. Gods will is
indicated by the Divine Laws just as mans
will is indicated by his own, or human laws.
Hence when the human laws shall, through
mans wisdom, conform to the Divine Laws,
Gods Will will be done on earth. Yet men
every day pray to God, "Thy will be done on
earth as it is in Heaven" because they do not,
.When the earth was eliminated a
mass of flame, from the psrenr world-our Sun-it
Unnamed all and only the principles and elements
II contains to-day Through, a d by, these PRINcI
rlEs its machinery, SO to speak, was adjusted and
mt in operation; and these elements contained all
fhs materials eauired for the production ofp enom-
.na' or eff cts Thus grand apartment was
composed Of materials, the other the laws of their
use. One was to develop into the department of
mind or cause: the other into that of matter, or
effect; and these exact coRREsPoNDENcEs, so
that The earth could contain principle without
becoming the th-atr of all the effects OF its opera
,i,n II is thus that mind can have no faculty to
conc i've a wish that supply would not wait on in
prodiga excess 4 conditions, which men alone con-
uol admitted oft These conditions attach to the
Divine inheritance Of the human race. See r. T.
No. 3.