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NOTES. Correspondence between the Physioal and
Spiritual Laws.
T EAVIEST and grossest bodies sink to the centre ; 11 so the least intelligent and exalted conditions of beings obey the same law and hence the spirits of those beings who had not advanced morally occupy the lowest stratum in the spiritual world; they are as a writer expresses sub-mundane spiritis ; such spirits delight in communicating with human beings who are for the time being deprived of active intelligence, who are just at that time wanting in moral and mental unfoldment; such human beings are according to common sense lower than an ordinary human being.
Because of the lower position these beings occupy I should not be understood to look down upon them ; no human being has a right to crush down another being simply because he occupies a higher storey, Oh, proud and disdainful man I disdainful and proud only in your ignorance! Which of you can say from whence you came or deny what you might have been, however you may rejoice in the height to which you have now attained; however you may rest in the assurance that there is no snch things as retrogression, and that you cannot sink lower than you will to fall ? Which of you who so cheerfully accept that vague theory of inductive science, that teaches you to believe
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