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 cause in person He is always encompassed with the sun; but He is present there by aspect. It is common in heaven for persons to appear as present in the place where the view is fixed or terminated, although it is very far from the place where they actually are. This presence is called the presence of the internal sight, of which I shall speak hereafter. I have also seen the Lord out of the sun and a little beneath in an angelic form; and also near to me, in a similar form with a resplendent countenance; and once as a flaming or burning light in the midst of the angels."

This last manifestation reminds us of the mystical splendors of the sublime vision of Ezekiel:

"Then I beheld, and lo! a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins, even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber."

In No. 40 of Earths in the Universe, is a remarkable account of a personal manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ to certain spirits as a Divine Man standing in the sun of the spiritual world. It is there stated also that several spirits who had been men upon earth in the lifetime of Jesus, and who had seen and known him, declared before the