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 subject, yet he, even must be read in Latin or German, to be correctly understood. The English is the tongue of commerce—has too much ring of the dollar in it—to be used to express spiritual things. I shall try to convey my experiences so as to be understood; yet how can I hope to be?—how make the fact known, that one human soul is actually larger, deeper, greater, than this whole material globe?—that it has a sun, within the cerebrum; a moon, the solar plexus; that its sun rises (when we wake), and sets, retires to the vertebral column, sinks within the great ganglion, behind the stomach, when we sleep; that it has stars, the nerve-villi; planets, the ganglia; it has a milky way, the great nervous cord; comets, and, in short, everything that the outer world has, and much beside. How shall I express these facts so as to be understood? for the terms I use do not convey the exact meaning. "Who can understand that the soul has hills, mountains, valleys, and so forth? Yet it hath all these things in a higher and heavenly sense. Still more difficult will it be to prove or show that the Bible saying, that "the kingdom of heaven is within" every one, is a literal truth. The soul, per se, contains within itself the sum total of a dozen universes, each differing from the other, each one overlying that beneath it; and just as fast as the soul outgrows, unfolds from, or 'vastates' either of these, new and higher ones become apparent, just as there dwells an appreciation of the refined and beautiful in every coarse man or woman; but, in order that this esthetic sense shall come out and be active, a certain discipline is essential, the result of which is a vastation and throwing off of what impeded and obstructed this beauty-sense. This is the end and mission of