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32 was proposed, to the spiritual and eternal uses intended to be derived from the organ of vision.

It has been already shown how the images of natural objects, when presented to the human mind through the medium of the bodily eye, are serviceable in forming the intellectual mind, by becoming a plane, or ground-work, for the production of intellectual ideas. But are you aware, that an intellectual mind is only another term to express an intellectual eye; and that the objects of the sight of this eye are all the forms and colours and qualities of, whether it be scientific, rational, or spiritual truth? Are you aware, therefore, that there is a certain relationship subsisting between the bodily eye and the intellectual eye, so that what is true of the former, in regard to natural objects, is true also of the latter, in regard to spiritual objects? The bodily eye, for instance, introduces to your notice all the grand objects of this lower world, so as to convince you, not only of their existence, but also of their instrumentality to solace and delight you. In like manner, your intellectual eye introduces to your notice the more sublime objects of another and higher world, attended with a similar conviction of their reality, and of their tendency to promote your bliss. Do you ask what those more sublime objects of another and higher world are? I would