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Rh One after another of them may be opened and developed, and the individual enter into large possession of their wonderful powers, and yet have no spiritual capacity. A prize fighter may strengthen his physical powers to a marvelous degree and yet possess little intellectual development. The merely natural man may be intellectual in every worldly sense—a keen reasoner, an apt logician, a profound student, a mechanic, a poet, an artist, a musician—and yet be utterly unable to grasp a spiritual truth. His spiritual mind is unopened, or, if partially opened, undeveloped. It is, therefore, utterly impossible to cause any one to see a spiritual truth, or to understand the difference between a spiritual life and a merely natural one, whose spiritual faculties are unawakened, unopened, unstrengthened, or undeveloped.

But the more they are opened the further they can see in this regard; while the less they are opened the less they can see. The spiritual possibilities are born with every one. The spiritual mind, in its rudiments at least, exists with all, just as certainly as does the natural. It is as certain that one may become spiritually intelligent and living, as that he may walk and talk or as that he may learn, on the natural plane of things, to imitate, reason and compare. Yes, it is precisely as Paul says: "The natural man (that is, the natural mind),