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 and the laws and phenomena of the other life revealed, and that you will not be startled by anything strange or new? Is it not far more rational to suppose that everything will be novel and surprising and wonderful? Study Swedenborg patiently, ponder in your heart what seems doubtful or mystical, accustom your mental eyes to the great splendor of the light he gives, which almost blinds you at first, and you will gradually discover more spiritual truth in his pages than is contained in all the libraries of the world.

After all his glowing descriptions of our spiritual bodies, our spiritual senses, our surroundings and organizations hereafter, what are we to make of his assertion that there is neither space nor time in the spiritual world?

Sjmce with us is the very basis of our identity, and of the differentiation of one thing from another. Impenetrability, or the power of a body to occupy a certain portion of space to the exclusion of all others, is the fundamental physical property, without which nothing could exist. Nor can we imagine how events can succeed each other in regular order without originating the idea of time.

It is true that our thought and imagination leap