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 homogeneous: old as Deity, young as the new-born infant; always existed, ever will exist. They are Pha-souls (Fay-souls,) or Monads. I now realized this strange truth: that the conscious soul that constituted me was now beyond, as it were, all the circumvolving material atmospheres surrounding earth, and that it was rapidly approaching the awful and vast Spiritual Ocean. Presently it ceased its flight, turned earthward, and made the following discovery: first, the Spiritual pervaded the Ethylic Sea: this, in turn, the Etherial; that, the Magnetimic; that, in turn, Electrimic; that, the Magnetic; that, the Electric; and that, in turn, the Earth Sphere, or 'Odylic' emanation, which in turn pervades the atmospheric or Oxygenic; so that man really breathes several, instead of a single atmosphere—the highest of which quickens the spirit, as the lower does the body. Turning the gaze outward, a fine, glorious, soft, silvery sea was seen spreading away in all directions; and the eye had no difficulty in traversing space, as on earth it has, through the corporeal structure and the several earth-airs. In this clear expanse of Spirit floats uncounted globular monads, infinite in number, infinitesimal in volume; they are each enveloped in a fine electric substance, which surrounds them perfectly. The spiritual waves bear them on its bosom to the earth; they, by a mysterious power, are drawn to the human male brain, through the lungs; they enter it, become lodged, remain till a certain physical work is completed, and then descend and effect their mission through the aid of the prostate gland. At certain times, they quit this, pass into the uterus, enveloped in the prostatic