The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-29


latter being wholly misunderstood. Eternal
sleep is the indispensable creed Of that mind
which is without the use of its spiritual tacul-
ties, for there are no other faculties by which
we can know that death is not an eternal
sleep. am speaking of the mind-not the
heart, which, in its extremity, has found
creeds for itself, the body and life of all OF
which are an unquestoning faith. Men have
been driven by the affections to take counsel
of their fears, and from these have sprung the
various religions and their universal child,
born blind, called Faith These religions are
of the heart wholly, and upon them the doors
of the mind must not open if they are to con-
tinue to exist. They are accepted by men be-
Cause there is nothing else for them t, accept,
the faculties through which they are to find
the intelligence to guide them, as we'll as their
divinely appointed individual guides, having
been ever unused and being unknown.
Thousands Of ages ago, when Mamalia be-
came endowed with two brains, Immortality
was born. Two brains meant Immortality
two uses, two worlds, two lives, two destinies.
The front is the spiritual, the rear the animal,
brain. From the former the way is open to the
spiritual universe-the latter is closed in by
an impossible wall, where nature in the dis
charge of her grosser Offices, is without dan
ger Of intrusion. The uses of the former be-
long to the spiritual hemisphere of the natural
man, which he does not occupy. He, hence.
knows nothing of the spiritual laws, nor Of the
fact of spiritual life. Through all these
ages the divine guardians of the race have
sought to make men aware Of their immortal
ity by means of the only proof men could
comprehend-that addressed to their physical
senses; in order that they might remove to
the spiritual hemisphere, accept their divine
inheritance from which all human wants
would be supplied, and thus, relieved of hu-
man cares and miseres, live spiritual lives.
But until the Rochester Knockings, so-caled,
of "a, all effort had been vain-their Christs
had been crucifed, their witches drowned or
burned. whole armies having, singly, divine
missions lost-making no sign. Why now, af-
ter half 4 century, men remain still unaware
Of the existence of spiritual universe, is
momentous matter hereafter to be explained
to you. The abuse of the physical senses,
last week illustrated, which has enabled "Spir-
itualiSm' to fill the world with new error, is in
close alliance with its cause.
But am running into too much space and
must close briefly. We are daily living the
true life in our spirit homes. That one-t third
of existence, spent in sleep, should be time
lost, would be impossible to the divine econ
omy. 1t is employed by mind in its spirit
home. When relieved by the body's sleep it
gravitates as naturally to its own world as the
apple, when loosed from the tree, falls to the
ground-and by the same law. (Gen. S.
Throughout all that portion Of existence spent
in sound, dreamless sleep-for in unsound
sleep the mind is engaged with shadows in
the baser brain,-we live the real life, and
dwell in our future homes. These we provide
here The circle of associations that attracts
US here is the same circle there. Whether we
daily 60, or shall eventually, among the dear
and pure ones whom we best love, depends
upon the lives we live. We cannot unless fit.
Thus the indispensable need, and substantial
uses, of this life will become apparent as you
read 1t is enough to say here of this life, as
we live it, that it is of the nature of an appari-
ton to the real life, and finally disolves as
such. This will not be so when the Spiritual
Man appears on earth.
That Man, the Child of the Infinite Father,
with Reason in possession of its kingdom and
its throne for hundreds of centuries, should
be living an immortal life, in world which is
immortal and under conditions that are eter-
nal, and yet not know it, seems impossible to
you - and will till explain the causes by
reason Of which it is SO.
Somewhere, amid the intervening worlds
have described as lying between this and the
Universal Sea, is ours. 1t is there, when
your eyelids are closed in sleep, you find your
self. All Of us 60 where our affections lead
among those whom we love and desire to
be with. Your present daily experience in that
real life you will recall when, released from
this, you 60 permanently to it. Gen. lD. In
the meantime you should be aware that you
are making your future home there with moth
ing to govern you but your desires; SO that