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hereafter will be a splendid theatre representing under symbolic forms the ineifable mysteries of the Lord's spiritual kingdom. We will then understand the words of the poet:

"The sun, the moon, the stars,
The seas, the hills, the plains;
Are not all these, O soul!
The Vision of Him who reigns?"

There, however, we shall have the key to the vision, and we shall read, as in an ever-newly-created book, the sublime movements of the Providence within us.

The chemist and naturalist tell us that the vast coal-beds of the earth are condensations of the heat and light which prevailed in the primeval ages of the world. We will understand, hereafter, how all visible objects are condensations or concretions on different planes of being of the divine love and wisdom, which are the heat and light of the spiritual world.

Though God is seen representatively in everything surrounding the angels. He is pre-eminently present and manifest in the spiritual Sun. He is called the Sun of righteousness because he is the sun visible to the righteous. It is said that there is no need of the sun or of the moon in heaven, but