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Rh spiritual world is the source of all the life of man in nature, invisibly influencing the course of all things here. "The spiritual world contains, and in a manner consists of all the men and women who have ever died on earth. They are an all-prevalent plane of induction over us, most closely united to us by our individual and special correspondence with them." The spiritual world consists of Heaven, Hell and the world of spirits, intermediate between them. It is thus divided by the necessary separation of the wholly good from the wholly evil, and of both from those who are in the undeveloped state which belongs to men on earth and spirits recently entered into the spiritual world. Let us endeavor now to understand this distinction. Man in the world lives two lives; one internal and the other external; for he can think one thing and say another, or will one thing and do another. One is the life of the interiors and the other of the exteriors of his spirit; for what the body does, is only an effect from the interiors and exteriors of his spirit, since the body is only an instrument. From external thought and affection one may talk of love to the neighbor and love to God, when yet in his