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

interposed by mans requirement of other
rudimental worlds than this to fit him for the
celestial life. If he here lived under the di-
vine laws every hour of his natural life of 90,
100 or $50 years would he applied to the de-
velopment, by means of his spiritual faculties,
OF the spiritual man, and then, at death, he
would be qualified togo to his celestial home
But he occupies all these years in telling,
scheming and striving for subs Stence, money,
fame and objects wholly worldly, and often in
pursuing vice, RIGHTEOUSNESS and crime. So
that he is no more fit at death than at birth,
and often far less fit, for the life he is to live
hereafter. But the law is not changed by
his failure to be governed by it. He can be
qualified for the celestial life only by living
the natural life, by passing through all its re-
latons, child, brother, sister, father, mother,
| and realizing the natural affections, for they
| must all become known to him. This he
does by the means | have descr bed. Us in
| the beautiful homes and amid the transcend
ant glories Of the highest spiritual world,
| which borders on the celestial, the angelic
beings who people it ind something yet es-
sential to them to know, or be, that can only
be acquired by their rapport with this world,
before they can tread the floors, and breathe
the fragrant airs, and behold and mingle with
the unimaginable splendors and delights of
the celestial land, before they can plume
themselves for flight to the distant world that
lie above and about them, worlds they had
seen from earth's very floor and wondered il
indeed those starry paths were mans destined
| way.
Son-How plume themselves; have spirits
wings?
Father-No, but spirits sail through the air
without the need of wings, with Whatever de-
gree Of velocity they desire. When your feet
shall tread spirit soil you will see above you
luminous bodies, like stars, moving in all
| directions. These are men and women who
have shaken from them enough of earth to
| sail the skies of the Heavenly land and enjoy
| delights OF which ii is barely our privilege to
| dream.
Son-May not all spirits thu, sail?
Father-Not they who have bestowed
themselves on this world. Not criminal,
venal or vicious minds. Not suicides, who
outweigh all others and whose sense OF
cowardiCe, abasement and shame will not
permit them even to gaze on scenes upon
which they have intruded, and where they can
have no lot nor part. Forlorn. desolate, self
condemned and despised they hide themselves
from the sight which they cannot bear, and
unregarded and unrecognized suffer alone.
| Son-li a man be tired of life must he still
| live?
Father have related to you the law.
Man is not his own creator.
Son-Ihen if the forlorn and sorrowful
man by the river bank were to drown himself
in its tide such would be his lot?
FatherIt is the lot of all who commit self.
murder
Son--So your idea is that men who live
| spiritual lives will fare better in the spiri,
world than they who do not however honest
and exemplary in morals md behavior!
Father-lt is natural they should To
honest and exemplary morals and behavior
the spiritual life adds wisdom But the first
| object in view is to fare better in this world
Son-Will you explain how their condition
| is TO be bettered here!
Fathcr-At another time. NM