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CHAPTER IV.

CELESTIAL MIRROR: THE UNIVERSAL REFLECTOR.

THE vision has departed, and in a vehicle of light still more perfect I am borne far above, and to an exceedingly high tower in superior realms. Above this tower rests an overspanning canopy, so constructed as to reflect the likeness and reveal the character and movements of all things either animate or inanimate, pertaining to the vast sphere of which it is the center.

From this position I behold the orbs, systems, and their spiritual inheritances throughout what appears immensity of space. The vastness of the magnificent scene is entirely above the comprehension of man while existing in his state of moral depression, spiritual darkness, and mental derangement. No means are afforded to reduce to human capacity a proper miniature of those expanded heavens. Earth's abilities combined cannot furnish the one hieroglyph from which may be read the outlined characteristics of one of those unbounded plains.

While reclining upon the breast of my guide I behold what is transpiring in the light of the dome above me, where figure passes figure, and scene succeeds scene, as imaged from the moving

heavens through this Celestial reflector. There I behold the members of every system and the transit of every orb. Yea more, from another and more perfect mirror, which is within the former, I perceive even the inhabitants of different realms, in the vast assemblages that move in the spiritual heavens within the compass of this divine speculum.

"Here," remarks my guide, "thou shalt at the appointed time, sit and read the history of that portion of the vast universe to which thy race doth belong. But for a season, that which is more immediately important shall engage thee. Learn however, that all these orbs, all these moving bodies, which enliven the space embraced within the scope of thy conceptions, are, or have been in like condition to those orbs thou hast just beheld. That is, the same laws affect them, and their inhabitants, when in like condition.

"The vision of thy earth, (when viewed as an example of the works of God,) in its deranged, inharmonious, and perverted state, reflects unfavorably upon the order of divine perfection. To its inhabitants God has revealed the solemn truth of its derangement; that it is not in harmony with universal nature, and that man is a violator of law. And also, in order to redeem and unite him with unperverted beings, God the Life, Creator and Preserver, must inter

pose, hence it is revealed that he is the Savior of sinners. But man, intent upon finding cause in nature, of all his ills, and also means for his exaltation to the plains of harmony, has rejected the Revelation of God in which is epitomized the cause and effects of transgression, also the means and end of salvation. It therefore behooveth Wisdom to disclose that which hath heretofore been a SEALED MYSTERY to the race."

CHAPTER V.

THE INTERPRETATION OF THE TREE OF LIFE.

"HEAR the interpretation of the TREE OF LIFE of which the inhabitants of the unperfected orb partook.

"The liberty, indulgence and exercise of the youth of that orb were restricted, and they were required to live obedient to laws adapted to that period of their existence; and to partake of appropriate nourishment, until after they had eaten of the Tree standing in the enclosure. Thence they were required to live in obedience to the laws adapted to the first seven years; which laws and conditions varied as they advanced. The fruit of which they partook possessed a quality calculated, when taken into the system, to neutralize, and expel therefrom the grosser properties of their being, and to serve as spirit of life, to purify and exalt them to a more refined condition. As the refining process removes from the pure metal the dross, so this served to refine the system. And thus the spiritual being

was sustained in its efforts to rise above the more material, and to attract to itself from physical nature, that which was in sympathy with the spirit, and inclined to the spiritual realm.

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"The virtue of the seeds, uniting with the juice of the pure grape of that orb, served to perpetuate the action of the transforming element, taken with the fruit, and to inspire and support the more refined properties as they arose with a spiritual being above the material plains.

"The arched passage to the great dome was enclosed by that growth which repelled the influence of the external atmosphere, and shed a fragrance within like spiritual aroma, which uniting with the essence of the fruit partaken, prompted an increased purifying and spiritualizing action.

"As the garments received the material properties expelled, they were frequently exchanged fo those new and more refined. The pools served as cleansing and healing fountains.

"Within the great Temple they were baptized with the principles of immaterial Life from the divine effulgence which in a cloud-like form rested above. Beneath that effulgence they remained until the properties of their beings capable of sublimation, were translated from the material to the spiritual; hence, until their bodies became immortal. Thence, existing in a sphere of life superior to the natural plane, they were qualified to repel the gross and perishable influences, and receive as breath of life, supplies from spiritual realms. Thus the immortalized

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