problems, the problem of creation. Among many other deep and mysterious principles which are there unfolded and demonstrated, it is shown that there is a spiritual sun which is the first and proximate proceeding of the divine love and wisdom; that all things in the universe were creaated from the Lord, by that sun of the spiritual world; that the sun of the natural world, though pure elemental fire, is in itself devoid of life or power, and derives all its actual force from the sun of the spiritual world; that it exists from that sun as an effect, and also as a medium through which ultimate material forms are created and sustained.
It is thus that by an easy transition, the attention passes from the natural to the spiritual world. We know that there are spiritual forms, just as well as we know that there are natural or material forms. It is true the latter are openly perceived by our natural senses; but it is equally true of the former, that though not openly seen by us at present, they are nevertheless, so distinctly manifested through material forms, as to leave no rational doubt of their existence. We are constantly surrounded with spirits, clothed in material bodies. Such are men. Their bodies are the material and ultimate forms of living, substantial, spiritual beings, beings who love and think, as well as act, and thus demonstrate that as to their essential, their personal and real nature, they are composed of a spiritual substance,—something so unlike matter, even in its most refined and perfect forms, as to have nothing in common with it.
Those spiritual beings are continually disappearing from the natural world. The body, the material covering, becomes diseased and unfit for use, and the spirit casts it off. But the real man lives on. Each is his own spiritual form; and each as an individual unit, a spiritual particle is added to the formation of the spiritual world. All combined compose one countless host; and this is the spiritual world. It exists from the spiritual sun as an effect of the divine love and wisdom, and is every moment upheld and sustain-
