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392 OP MATTER, MIND, AND SPIRIT.and the reason, uniting both the power of thinking and reasoning withthose of loving and hating, of benevolence and malevolence, so that eventhe soul of Jehovah has been represented in Scripture as being actuatedby jealousy, wrath, and vindictiveness.190G. According to information from the spirit world, spirit is viewedas the clothing of the soul, and is not constant in its characteristics; but,on the contrary, varies with the plane which it occupies, so that its densityis inversely as the rank attained. It is on this account that the inferiorspirits cannot rise above the level to which they riglitfully belong.1907. The impression is conveyed that there is a state to be attained inthe spiritual heaven, wherein the tenuity of the integuments of the soulare still more refined.1908. According to the speculation in which I indulged in a previouspage, a centre cannot differ from the nihility involved by the conceptionof a mathematical point, without a circumambient something, to which thedifference is due, and, however difficult to conceive in what way the attributesof a human soul are associated about the centre whence their influenceproceeds, this difficulty, having been shown to exist no less in thecase of ponderable atoms, would be an objection to the existence of matteras much as of mind.Of theSoul, as clistinguisTied from Mind and Matter.1909. The word mind is much used as synonymous with intellect orunderstanding, though it seems to me we consider it as more or less associatedwith the passions which actuate it. The word soul, on the otherhand, involves the association of every thing which distinguishes a beingcapable of passion, and competent to reason, from a corpse. It is remarkablethat, as spirits become more pure and intellectual, they should bealleged to become more refined in their spiritual integuments, thus removingfurther from the mundane state, and becoming less capable of givingthose manifestations in which violent movements are witnessed.On theOdic, or Odylicj Force.1910. There never was perhaps a more eloquent exhibition of that whichhas been designated as ratlocinatio vcrhosa, than in the appeals made tothe odic force as the means of explaining spiritual manifestations. Itmay be inferred, from the speculation into which I entered, when treatingof mediumship, (806,) that there is a spiritual light and spiritual electricity,which performs for spirits in the spiritual world what ourand light does for us in this world.electricityIt was pointed out that the term magnetismhad been applied to mesmeric phenomena rather in consequenceof an analogy between them and those of electro-magnetism, tlian fromany identity.To this spiritual electricity, mortals, in their spiritual organ-