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 represents a thought of Deity; so also man thinks himself in his actions, and fills the world with his thoughts, variously clothed; some in iron, steel, wood, paper, ivory, cloth, palaces, engines, ships, houses, parks, gardens, and so on; so, also, after his disembodiment, will he surround himself with soul-created forms, whose aspect, shape and texture depends altogether on the cleanliness and purity of the loom wherein these mental fabrics are woven. The sole difference between the creations of the mortal and post-mortem artificer is, that, instead of arraying them in gross or coarse material, as on earth, he in the Soul-worlds, fashions the garments of such stuff as thoughts themselves are made of; or, to give it still clearer, each thought possesses an inherent vitality of its own, as also form, proportion, and coherence. Thus, if an engineer thinks a locomotive, all he has to do. in order to impress his thought on others, is to give it a suit of iron, brass and steel to wear, and, lo! all the world hails, and triumphantly acknowledges the worth of the offspring of his deathless soul.

Just as soon as the man has placed metallic parts where only mental ones were previously, all the people see it, feel it, know it to be an engine—that is to say, an incarnate thought of a certain engineer. Now, take notice all ye who think, that the combined glories of the separate sections of the great Soul-world are constituted of the general projections of the disembodied order, or section of an order, that compose the society around whom the sphere is seen. There are myriads of these societies; and no one belonging to society A can enter the sphere of society B, notwithstanding both may belong to the same general order. True,