Serious Letters To Serious Friends (1888) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FORMATION OF BODIES. 19 which is the outward and material expression of that particular state. These 'hodies/ or 'moulds, ' serve as the educators of the Spirit substance, to which they give temporary form, and by which they are animated during the temporary conjunction of Spirit and Matter that produce the ascending series of the " natural reigns." According to the stage of its advancement does the spirit, or spirit element, attract the molecules of matter and build up its outward body, which consequently is invariably the exact expression of its inward or spiritual state. It is now revealed to us that Cosmic Matter exists in the universe in two states, the Fluidic and the Compact. The Fluidic State is declared to be the normal state of Matter, the Compact State being a result of the ' condensation' of those elements on the surface of Planets. But the difference between these two states of Matter?which it is said to be impossible to explain to us until we have discovered much more of the nature and action of the ' fluids' and ' forces' amidst which we live?is not simply one of density; for the vaporization of compact matter does not render it fluidic, and the "fluidic sphere " of our earth comprises a vast gradation of regions corresponding in density or levity to the backwardness or advancement of its inhabitants, some of whose bodies that we call Spiritual are almost as dense as our own. The sole aim of the processes of Creation is, first, 20 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPIRIT. the individualization of Spiritual substance out of the state analogous to diffusion, in which it originally exists in connection with Cosmic matter, into conscious personalities, endowed with the rudiments of all the mental, moral, and affective qualities; and, next, the education of ...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	November 2009
Authors:	Marie Sinclair Caithness
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	376
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-70329-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN:	1-120-70329-8
Barcode:	9781120703293

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