The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-13
DIVINE LAWS,

wful.looking man, my son, gazing upon the
river as if he would like TO drown his sorrows
| in its tide?
Son-Yes, sir. .sEs
Father-Well, every rational wish of that
man it is his right TO have gratifed - right
he derives from his Heavenly Father, who
does not bestow the faculty to wish upon his
| children without supplying the world they are
TO inhabit with everything that can be wished
| for as abundant as air.
Son-Then why are his wishes not graft
| fed? Is it not Gods law that men should
learn their bread by the sweat of their
brows," and is it not likely that he has fallen
into restitution by Incidence, idlepess or vice :!
Father - 1t is not Gods law that man
should learn his bread by the sweat of his
brow" His doing SO is incident to condi-
| tons he himself imposes. II men lived under
| the spiritual or divine laws, which are Gods
laws and as much designed to govern us in
this life as in any which is to follow (for man
| is as much spirit here as he will ever be),
restitution and sorrow would be unknown. If
this unfortunate has fallen into desttution by
Incidence or vice, society is answerable for il,
for if men lived under Gods government there
would be no Incidence or vice.
Son-Why not?
Father-Because men will be too wise to be
| indolent or vicious
Son-IIow would men get food if they did
| not work?
Father-By spirit power. 1t is not the
divine purpose that men should work beyond
| . hot, inf nj, oh L
creation. If men accepted the divine govern
ment then minds would be open to the recep-
ton of thoughts from above and they would
become aware of what constitutes their divine
inheritance, and would enter upon it. 1t is
only necessary that we should apply our wis
| dom faculties, that are unused to USE in order
| to know how terribly we are gone astray and
how we are to rescue ourselves from entang-
ling alliances with our unfortunate dead who
went astray before us.
Son-Do you suppose our dead 10 be con-
scous of what we do?
Father-No thought or act ever occurs on
earth in which our dead have not a share.
Spirits share mems consciousness and partici-
pate in what they think, and do, and are
They who have no knowledge, or thought, Of
| a spiritual life cling to every means available
| to perPetuate this.
| SOn-Wnat means are available
Father-Ail spirits have the power to pos
| SeSs themselves OF the organs and senses of
those of us by whom they are attracted, I'M
consciously to ourselves, and by such means
| to see the natural world and be in it, and of
| it, as before death.
Son-By whom among us are they mostly
atractedl
Father-Like attracts like.
Son-Are all the earth's dead thus en-
ployed?
Father-All who desire to be- They in
| whom worldly desires rule live worldly lives.
Such as desire to live spiritual lives gradually
| recede from the lower earth to higher condi-
| tons as they gather about them those they
| have loved.
Son-Whither do they 60?
Father-TO higher worlds or spheres or
planes, whatever called, which surround the
earth as its atmosphere and where myriads OF
the children of men reside. Our temporal
world is but as the core of the apple.
SOn-Are these celestial worldsI
Father-They are not, but spheres con-
centric with the earth's surface interposed be-
tween us and the celestial world, which is
above them all and Outermost, there lying be-
yond it only the universal Heavens to which
men residing in the celestial world have &C
cess.
| Son--Do none of us then, when we die, go
to our celestial homes?
Father-Look around you, my son, and tell
me what such beings as you hourly meet
would do in celestial homes?
Son-But when they die shall the good not
be made perfect?
Father-What is to make them perfect?
Dying is but laying off this body OF flesh.
And all which has not been done to qualify
men to live in their celestial homes has to be
done afterward.
Son-Where and how are they to do il?
Father-As they can, by such means as the
| spiritual laws afford. If men here lived spir-
itual lives we Should, at death, pass directly
to our celestial home, and the celestial world
would lie at our doors, for there would then
be no intermediate worlds. -.
Son-Why not!
Father-BeCause they would not be re-
quired. They exist only by reason of mans
unftness for the celestial life and are artificial
worlds, produced by conditions which men
bring to them.
Son-What do you mean by artificial
worldsi
Father-I mean that the only natural worlds
are the natural so called, and the celestial,
and that all Intermediary worlds have been