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 been constructed. Our entire globe was once gaseous or atmospheric, then aqueous and afterward solid. The soil we walk upon is a deposit from the atmosphere. Our natural bodies are gases temporarily solidified by chemical affinities.

All the pleasurable sensations evolved from the touch, exist in heaven and in the highest state of perfection. The delights which flow from this mode of communicating the affections are almost unintelligible to us who still linger in the shadows of the natural life.

The sins of the spirit are effigied in mournful symbols by the diseases of the body and the disorders of the physical universe. Painful sensations belong only to the natural world, the world of spirits and hell. There is no pain in heaven.

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying: neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."

Physical pain comes from the distorted media into which the nerve-life of the spirit flows, whether a broken bone, a morbid growth, an inflamed tissue or a changed function. Spiritual pain comes from the influx of the divine life into perverted, disorderly and unregenerate spiritual