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24 ABOUND THE WOELD.
constructor ! Oh for self-denial, and more moral heroism
"Why cringe and cower ? Why lean like a half-dipped candle,
and cautiously inquire for the winning way ? Alone, — alone
with truth, is a majority !
WHEN DOES THE SOUL BEGIN TO EXIST?
" I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven," exclaimed
the Revelator John. The harmonial philosophy
recognizes this open door, — these golden gates ajar.
Sitting at four o'clock in our stateroom with Dr. Dunn, he
was immediately entranced, the conversation turning upon
pre-existence. Mr. Knight, the controlling spirit, said, that,
" While making no pretensions to infallibility, still I must
say that I consider the theory of ' re-incarnation,' that is,
the re-incarnating of resurrected and immortalized souls back
into gross earthly bodies again, as neither necessary in the
divine economy, nor true, in fact ; but the theory of the
soul's conscious pre-existence is true."
What is the soul, Mr. Knight ?
" A potentiaHzed portion of God, the divine principle,
the spirit esse, the keystone that crowns with a fadeless immortality.
" This germinal soul, beginning to accrete spiritual substance
and physical matter, takes the
sacred moment of embryonic conception."
human form from the
But, if the human form has a beginning, must it not have
an end ? as only circles are endless.
" It is not very safe, in reasoning, to apply circles, angles, or
mathematics in any form, to mind. Ending does not imply
an abrupt finality, neither annihilation. Both the spiritual
and physical bodies are continually ending in time. Never
at two different moments are they precisely the same.
Change pertains to all matter, to all substance. The term
' creation
'
should give place to ' evolution, ' unfoldment.' The
divine method is by the law of evolution.
If the undisputed axiom be true, that Ex ' nihilo nihil fit,'