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4 a message from God to His children, containing new and uplifting laws of right living. Before the eyes of the inspired prophet, Revelator, or man of God, there has been a clear vision of supersensuous realities; the Divine voice has been heard, generally commanding a record to be made of Divine laws, precepts, warnings or encouragements. The unseen world is opened—why? Not chiefly to prove the existence of such a world, but to show that God is speaking from that world, and not man, spirit or angel. The chief purpose of the unveiling is not to satisfy curiosity or convince sceptics of another existence, but to reveal God and His laws. This is what we call the right unveiling. In this God speaks; His message is uplifting; the supernatural enforces the practical. The effect is to spiritualize the earthly, while in all wrong unveiling the effect is to materialize the heavenly. All through the Bible the spiritual world is unveiled in glimpses, but the unveiling brings a vital lesson. The Divine thunders of Sinai brought to the world the Decalogue, not as a new but as a Divine law, and also the new thought of one God over all the earth, long lost to the world.

Some think that an outside, sensuous proof of another world would, by itself, uplift humanity. If men could only realize the tremendous fact that there is no death, and that their future would depend on their lives here, how (it is argued) could people do wrong? This is the theory of