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98 mansions in the world to come. Knowledge may be ours and yet have no illuminating power. To learn eternal truths is one thing. They only become stars along our hastening way when they are kindled into fires in the firmament of the spiritual mind.

Knowledge is not faith; nor is faith, love. But without knowledge there can be no faith, and without both no love. Knowledge, faith and love are a trine of principles which in their blended lights dispel the last vestige of darkness from the mind.

So we have groped our way along, all in the providence of God, to our fourth state of regeneration. It is a slow process. We came out of darkness into light, but what did we realize of eternal things? We passed into a capacity for grasping spiritual thoughts, but what warmth or clearness was there to our new found views? We brought forth some fruits of a better outward life, but what was there in our works of genuine love? Or how clear a faith had we in the higher life of good, or the grander ways of God? But now this love and faith are enkindled within the spiritual mind, and even our knowledge of eternal things are lit with living fire.

And so these lights enkindled thus serve to divide between the day and night—between the light of the true and good and the darkness of the false and