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CHAPTER IV.

OUR LANGUAGE HEREAFTER.

MYRIADS of souls being given, inhabiting spiritual bodies which see, hear and feel; organized into heavenly societies; each soul full of affections and thoughts flowing down by interior ways from the divine source of all life; some method of communicating their ideas is an imperative necessity.

Hence speech and writing in heaven as well as upon earth.

There is no life without motion, circulation, communication, interchange. The subtile currents of heat, light, electricity, and of aromal and effluvial particles are continually coming and going to and from every object in the material universe both great and small. Everything receives something from all other things and gives something to them. The light of the stars visits not only the planets in their majestic sweep around the sun, but every leaf that trembles in the wood and every pebble that