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 terms of nature apart from the states of the mind. From a mental or spiritual standpoint the life of a man is infancy, childhood, youth, manhood, and maturity, or a succession of states. Though a man's life, from the natural standpoint, may be considered to be composed of a number of years, in reality it is a long series of successive states. The time of life is the state, and the time gone through is the difference of state that exists between infancy and maturity. While one is passing through the succession of states from infancy to maturity a fixed rising and setting sun and a fixed earth, making the circuit of the ecliptic, mark off his life into divisions of days, months, and years, and so clothe the state and its succession of qualities with time. Therefore the mind and the world to which the mind properly belongs are above space and time, they not being attributes of it, but solely proper to the material world of fixed matter. So space and time clothe the mind and the spiritual world as an external garment, and are distinctly beneath them as attributes of matter.

Consequently in the spiritual world where there "shall be no night," when "the sun shall no more go down," and "there shall be time no longer," states and changes or differences of state take the place respectively of time and space.