How would we know the lighter gases of hydrogen unless we knew the nitrogen and oxygen?

The roots of every power in the Universe are here on earth and doubtless on other earths, and from roots all the heavens grow.

How would we know the lighter gases of hydrogen unless we knew the nitrogen and oxygen ?

The create is as the uncreate, and all things are in correspondence. Thus by the material we may know the spiritual. I had a dim idea of some white vapour floating softly in air, and singing and praising. It seems to me that the ministers of earth, and even the Bible, give us too ethereal ideas of heaven.

It is a common world, full of practical working, the same as all other countries, and as we grow in mind, we die into systems of more perfect order and regularity. 

There is the same examination going on in the hospitals of the first sphere and the same curing of disease, although not in the lower first physical forms. But a spirit body brings over many impurities and many weak spots and these have to be strengthened and magnetised and brought toward the powers they represent. 

For one body may represent a thousand powers, as will, charity, faith, nobility, et cetera. Bones are only small cords of will, as on earth, and these must be strengthened to represent this power.

Veins are the currents of magnetism and arteries of electricity, and both must be filled purely and regularly, else there can be no harmony. 

When these two are as one in balance there can be no disease. 

No body is in exact health unless electricity and magnetism beat as night and day or as cold and heat in regular order, for health is a beat of first one, then the other, the two powers or ends of the scale ever rising and falling and trying to become one or balanced. 

When anybody is attacked with cold diseases, we must try to bring up the other end of the scale or flash the being with magnetism, and so vice versa. 

Sadness and grief and selfishness are cold and need the warmth. Pride and excessive joy are heats and often need electric measures. 

No wonder that Nature uses these remedies to balance the condition of the government or even of one soul. 

Oh, no, souls are never entirely lost after once having individuality. But the question arises, How soon after birth into this earth does individuality begin? This depends a good deal on heredity and the conditions of conception, and also environment. 

As soon as a soul begins to deposit spirit by the shining of its qualities, it becomes individualised, but not immortal, for there is a liability that sin may grasp it and eat out all the deposit, as a worm eats a rose. 

And then that soul, having no spiritual deposit, would sink back into earth to reform. 

There are two ways of becoming immortal—either by overcoming the obstacles of life and making deposit of a strong principled self—or by sinking back as a soul seed into earth, and back through the animals into chaos, becoming an element and again starting with all heredity effaced and as almost a new identity. 

Nothing can ever enter the seventh degree of holiness and become immortal until spirit substance has become secured as deposit sufficient to carry the soul on its journey. 

Once across the third sphere and the onward way is sure. You have already made spirit deposit, for your loves are the holiest of all principles, not only to me and father and the little ones, but to all humanity. 

These are threads, which have woven fine mesh of body. 

Feeling becomes sight sometimes. It only requires an intense vibration to make all the senses rise into equal pulse of sight. 

So that hearing or touch or smell or taste may hold possibilities of becoming sight. 

For nothing ought to be over and above a soul. It can conquer sense and lead it to obey its wish.