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 over spaces and times without difficulty. Our heart is where our home is, though it be far away. The case of the young lady who at a London ball clasped her hands to her bosom in fearful agony at the very moment her lover was shot through the heart in Spain, and many similar cases, prove that sympathetic spirits are not really sundered, although their bodies may be, by the spaces of the material world.

It is true also that we make a certain mental estimate of time, whether it be long or short, according to our mental states—an estimate not at all concurred in by our neighbor who gets his information from the time-piece or the movement of the sun. And lastly, in our dreams, when the soul works in partial independence of the body, what a magnificent scorn she exhibits of the bondage of time and space and even of death itself!

These are faint foreshadowings of the spiritual laws revealed through Swedenborg.

Times and spaces are fixities in this life; they are appearances in the next.

What are appearances?

They are objects or events or motions or times or spaces which represent the changing states of the soul as to wisdom and love. They appear or