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Rh pinions; but this is only fancy. It has behind it no more reality than has the sculptor's thought when he carves his statue of Liberty, which embodies his conception of an unseen quality or condition, but which has no physical antecedent reality, save in the artist's own observation and “chambers of imagery.”

My angels are exalted thoughts, appearing at the door of some sepulchre, where human belief has buried its

fondest earthly hopes. With white fingers they point upward to a new and glorified trust, a higher ideal of Life and its joys. Angels are God's impartations to man, — not messengers, or persons, but messages of the true idea of divinity, flowing into humanity. These upward-soaring thoughts never lead mortals toward self or sin, but guide them to the Principle of all Good, whither every pure and uplifting aspiration tends. We should give earnest heed to these spiritual guides. Then they will tarry with us, and we shall be found entertaining “angels unawares.”

Knowledge gained from material sense is figuratively represented in Scripture as a tree, bearing the fruits of

sin, sickness, and death. Ought we not then to judge this knowledge, thus obtained, to be untrue and dangerous, since “the tree is known by its fruits”?

Truth never destroys its own idea. It is the Substance, which cannot destroy its own reflection. Corporeal sense, or error, may hide Truth, health, harmony, and Science, as the mist obscures the sun or the mountain; but Science, the sunshine of Truth, will melt away the shadow, and reveal the celestial peaks.