CHAPTER XXIII.
Durerrent METHODS of Progression AND THe Reason vor THEM
ESIDES the physical world in which we live,
move and have our being at the present time, where sunshine and rain, storm and snow, heat and eold affect our physical being in various ways, a world of finer substance permeates the denser matter, and the forees indigenous te that realm impinge upon our souls, as feelings, desires and emotions, beeause: the soul is clothed in substance from that world. Mys-- ties therefore call this realm in nature the Desive World. A still more subtle substanee, an ocean of ‘Thought, pervades both the Desire World and the Physical World, and as the mind is composed of substance from that region, it senses the waves of thought generated by other spirits endowed with mind.
Here in the physical world, Time and Space are prime faetors of existence, but in the Desire World distance is practically eliminated beeause spirits hav- ing dropped the mortal coil travet with the speed of lightning, and as spiritual sight pierces the densest substance, light there is never obseured, so there-is po night, neither does heat and cold affect the soul,
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