Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

WOrlds Truth IS seen Us IL AS DTOugnt into the same mental or spiritual light. When an inventor desires to bring forth a new improvement, be puts himself m a mental attitude or state of recepti- witty 10 receive impressions m the ilne of his work, by applying his mind upon the difficult points to be overcome but when the result first appears ln his con sciOusness It comes ike e flash of light and the new truth seems SO simple, he wonders why he could not have seen 1t long before, and by an examination of his mental state, he discovers that 1t was not arrived at by a reasoning process, further than that he had kept hls mind in an attitude or state to receive the impression when 1t came. Our phys iology shows us that the nerves of sen- sation are above the inlets of physical knowledge to the mind or spirit, and that the nerves of motion are above the
 outlets by which all thought or feeling is communicated to others.
 When these nerves Of sensation bring to the spirit outward impressions, and
 which physiology teaches can be obtain ed in no other way, are locked m sleep,
 how is is 1t that many experience all the conditions of wakefulness hereuuto
 referred to? After having enjoyed the
 blessing of sight. if one becomes sud denly blind, so as never again to be able to receive any outward impression
 through this sense, still the person IS able in his dreams to enjoy those lm-
 pressions, or these experiences us to sight Rs before. If then these experi- ences may take place as to one or more ofthese senses when dropped altogether, I am unable to see that lt would be
 ridiculously absurd to think that the same might hold equally as good when those remaining were dropped also. My position is, that the spirit has its subjective, as well as Its objective side, as taught by all true mental
 philosophy, and that after the subject
 i've side of being, the receptacle Of all
 impression, has been obiectively i'm
 pressed through, and by means of the
 body, the sum of the senses, It IS then
 able to evolve in the consciousness all objective conditions with which 1t has
 been brought in contact, and to repro
 duce them, not only as received, but to
 place them, or any portion of them. in new combinations. That IS the idea, can you understand me?
 The senses are only necessary in the first instance in order that the subject i've side of being may be first impressed, after which their use may be wholly dispensed with, and are absolutely dis pensed with in dreaming. IL the spirit is able to pass through living experience es, wholly independent of them, and with the equal effect of wakefulness, why may 1t not contInue SO to do, when they are dropped altogether! After the the outer world. through the csm- era Of the senses, has once been photo graphed upon the subjective side, or sensitive plate of being, our conscious ness still shows us that we have world on the inside, as broad as our contact with form, whose conditions and attri. butes, together with our ever changing mental states, are now objects tO the mind, 10 be used Tn such combination as the self creative spirit, this mystery of the infinite, shall evolve. To my mind 1t Is clearly to be seen that the character fl these productions m the hereafter, in good or bad lives, may be measured by the standard Uf the Christian life and faith. and not on the outside, n the great relations of being. l In the close grip with matter, ]: Is not l at all wonderful tha. the human spirit l should imblbe some uf the dirt of its l animRlty. Hence the need of tEe cruel 1 ble of a higher power thsn self to re- 1 move the dross. The impressions made ] upon thIs sensitive side of being. Rs | above stated, are not impressions made | upon an Immoyable rock, or upon auy I other maternal substance whatever | winch may be broken, but upon the un- | seer, yielding, ever-moving life-forcr, | of thinking, feeling and willing. The | good book tells us the life of God is the | ] Ight of man, but as to the hand that | moves this spiritual instrument, that is | not at present under discussion. If my | ideas interest the many readers of | your excellent paper, will most will | ingly continue this article next week | from where I have herein left of. and | would be glad to have any one feeling | to throw any light of the | subject to take the other side, as my | pagan friend tells me he has not an l other word to say.
 am faithfully yours truly,
 PAUL GREGORY, M. D.