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Rh vision, we shall see nothing but a distorted object, which will affright and disturb us, and which, in spite of all our endeavours to the contrary, will be perpetually forcing itself on our optics and embittering all our joys; whereas, if our vision be formed by the living soul, all distortion will be done away, and we shall see nothing in bodily death but a glorious immortality putting to flight all the demons of fear, of disturbance, and of every other spiritual enemy.

What then remains, but that with uplifted eyes, and hearts, and hands, we supplicate the of the  to bless us with living souls, by elevating our love to His love, our wisdom to His wisdom, our operations to His operation; that so we may view all objects according to their proper features and colouring, and thus be preserved from the misrepresentations of folly and of death? What remains, I say, but that in contemplating our own bodies, whether in health, in sickness, in death, or in any other circumstance and situation, as hinted at in my former letters, we regard them as the significant manifestations of their parent mind, intended by the to lead us to the knowledge of their parent, and thus to the knowledge and love of Himself? But since all this is impossible to be effected, only so far as we acquire the habit of looking upwards from the body to