The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-04-30

r. continued from last week.
Concluding. Therefore that have done
nothing but what ! was ordained to do
and believing that all things are purposed
To some eventual good, NATURALLY inquired
Why if was | had been so much afflicted
| throughout my life ? and why, by my ac-
lions, which had always been performed in
pursuit Of what conceived to be honorable
purposes, ] had, more or less. injured those
whom it was my intention to benefit and
aid in procuring the means to happiness?
From the consideration Of this query /
was led 10 conclude that inearnate life is
the crueible through which the spiritual
enteties of mankind must pass, and as
need be repass until each shall have been
perfected in his individuality necessary to
the taking an the immortal form, which
destiny has deereed to all such as shall be-
come fitted therefor. (See I Corinthians,
18th chapter, and read Pauls testimony
And that il tile course Of ineamate life,
whatever occurs. is in obedience to the Law
Of necessity else il could not have oc-
CURED. since God, who is wholly incapable
of error, is all in al and ordans all things.
And that eventually | would progress 10
that degree Of intellectual understanding
which would render all these things
through a knowledge Of their laws. plain
10 my mind
As to the command To fear Him who has
power to destroy both body and soul ia
he'll, have been able to deduee that he'll,
ike heaven, is condition, and not exactly
a iteral lake of fire and birthstone That
the one is misery and the other is happi-
ness; and that all humanity are earnestly
laboring TO attain to the means necessary
to the latter, and that he who succeeds III
heaven, shall have necessarily passed
through hell And also that the destrnc-
ton Of both body and soul in hell is but
the dissoivne The entieiy fwhon it Shall
have served It's purposes and converting
the material back 70 the general reservoir,
as does the common potter the bowl or
other vessel found to be unworthy, hecasts
il back to be re-worked and moulded
anew Ia a more e0mely, durable and nseful
instrument. This theory applies as well 10
tie spirit as if does to the flesh and blood
Of man, il the text has any meaning, and is
susceptible OF an Interpretation: hence
must conclude that incarnate life savors
more Of he'll than Of heaven; or. at least,
that have had a greater foretaste Of the
former than the latter, and consequently
am persuaded that have been struggling
through hell all this. my incarnatc life.
Tie devil, who reig,.s in and over hell, is
simply evil-the eentrlriefy Of peace III
the erucible Of inearnate life he cxerts .
sort of centrifugal force. whereby the cir
cumyenting tendencies Of peace are pre-
vented from leading all unprotected nature
into chaos, from whence it sprang through
the efforts Of progress; hence, ! conclude
that his satanic majesty is not only nee
essary, but very beneficial instrument in
the hands Of tile Deity, whether mythical
or real.
Then, as all things are foreafdained 10
occur precisely as they do ocenr, there
must DC some means or law BY which man
can discern his future course, since every
individual subordinate mind is. through
the inspirational channels of the supreme
mind, in communion, one with the other,
and all with the supreme mind. WHO is ever
cognizant Of the past, present and fntare.
and Whose revealing and prophetic intelli-
genee Is prevalent in and of all things,
sound, actions. &C., &c. The deduction de-
rived from the consideration Of this hyI.oih-
esis was, that in the present stage Of life in
progress. it Is best that mankind is held
thus in Ignorance, especially as it vas
clearly the viii Of the supreme author,
who knew how far humanity was to adj
vance ere the mind thereof Gas a people)
could conceive the sublime intelligence
And yet, if is clear to my mind, though |
cannot yet demonstrate the Law, that each
and everything which is in anygise to
occur, is in some way, BY the phase, posi-
ton, sound or action of some other things
foreshadowcd IN snch manner rs to place
foreknowledgc thereof in the reach of the
scientific mind who can attain 70 that IN
telcciual passive condition necessary to
reflect the light of supreme knowledge
which, though not comprehensive as yet,
nevertheless pervades all things in and
through the functions Of the supreme
mind
BY, ia and through the several rcvela-
tions have had from time to time since
the commencement Of the year 1868 many
things have been foreshadowed in sneh
manner as to lead me to repose no little
confidence therein. Yet, in some instances,
| either misunderstood the revelations. or
else was the dupe Of some lying spirit
Of other intelligence, for while have en-
ioyed some very encouraging Notifications,
other things have been debarred the posi-
billty 81 fulfillmaIt, according to the letter
81 the prediction But these disappoint-
ments. be them ever SO false, do not dis
prove that they were Of some other source
than my fertile Imagination. (See | Kings,
22d chapter. 22d verse; and II Chronicles,
18th chapter, 9lss-23d verses.4 But the
disappointmcnts seem to have been neces-
sary in order 10 preserve me in my indiyid-
uality, and force me to intuitiye guidance.
As To my own future the forcsnadowings