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 and phenomena of the spiritual world: and that it is best for us to know little and think little of what seems to be concealed, and forbidden ground.

Is not this a hasty conclusion, an unfounded assumption, a fatal mistake? Would not a clear knowledge of the soul and its future surroundings throw an invaluable light upon the mysteries and conduct of this life? Is not this world, indeed, an insoluble enigma only because its connection with the spiritual world is not explained? How thoughtless to suppose that God designedly conceals from us the knowledge we most require! Our grossness, our sensuality, our worldliness, our moral obliquity, our spiritual blindness shut heaven and the angels from us. The revelations given to us are necessarily adapted to our own states. God ever bends lovingly down toward us, ready to flood our spirits with light. The solution of our darkness is simply this: the Church and the world have hitherto not been prepared to receive a revelation of the life to come, which must necessarily embody a new and sublime philosophy of mind and matter.

Are they now prepared? Are they at least preparing?

Many good Christians, full of faith and zeal,