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 forms. The aura is the medium of heat, the ether the medium of light, and the atmosphere the medium of motion and sound.

The aura of the spiritual world contains the divine love in its bosom which is manifested as spiritual heat. The ether of the spiritual world is a sacred garment of light manifesting the divine wisdom so far as it can be manifested to the spiritual eye. These forces radiate from the Sun of the spiritual world, which appears before the face of spirits and angels similar to our sun but far brighter; and that sun is the first and central proceeding, outbirth and objective embodiment of the Divine Life. The atmosphere of the spiritual world is a vast aerial ocean like ours, bearing in its bosom the higher and more subtile spiritual forces. It receives, absorbs and reflects the divine heat and light, and tempers them to the state of the spirits and angels who live and move in it.

The organic forms of both worlds are similar and exist in different series and degrees. There are solids and liquids and gases and aromas, and probably modifications of spiritual substance still more subtile and mysterious. To bring us into contact with all these things—this cosmos which reveals to us the glory of God, different senses are required