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 proved by the experience of hundreds of pious and spiritual-minded persons, during illness. These facts are sufficient to show that the mental and physical systems are quite distinct, and to a great extent independent of each other. It is true, indeed, that two systems, in such close connection, must mutually influence each other in a certain degree, while they remain together: still the great fact of the essential distinction between them is clear. Each system, thus, has its peculiar laws, which must be observed, if man would be in order and at peace.

Now, it is to be remarked, that the Divine commandments are all of them laws of Divine and heavenly order, and therefore laws of the mind's order; thus, in fact, they are the laws of the mental system: for the mind was created to be an image of heaven, a likeness of the Divine. Hence it is, that the Saviour said, "Neither shall they say, lo here! or lo there! for behold the kingdom of God is within you." When the mind is brought into a state of heavenly order, then the kingdom of God is within us, and consequently we are in a state of heavenly happiness. Heaven is essentially within, not without, us. Hence it is, that a bad man, although he be placed in the midst of outward scenes of beauty and delight, will still be unhappy: there is no heaven for him, because he wants the essence of heaven, which, as before said, is not without but within. Consequently, the true way, and the only way, to attain heaven and its happiness, is to have the mind brought into a state of heavenly order. Now, the Divine commandments, as just observed, are laws of heavenly order; and we are required to observe