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Show I WHO KNOWS? B A learned current magazine discusses the real fl and the spiritual body. The best part of the dis- B cussion is that the writer of the article had no B means of knowing whether what he was rwrit- I ing was founded on a real something that can fl be proved, or was only a hope set to words, be- B cause who, with only five senses can discern fl what is beyond their ken? If, twenty years ago, fl a man had asserted the wonders of the X-ray he I would have been laughed to scorn; if, forty years ago, the miracle of the phonograph had been I prophesied it would have been reckoned as an impossible dream. But both are real, and who B knows what may be the texture of the sublimated body which the spirit dwells in? The most won-B won-B derful of all things that can be grasped by. the fl human senses is the fact of a body that is lighted B by mind. A thing of flesh and blood made radi-B radi-B ant by intelligence; a frail thing which a scratch fl or a breath of poisoned air is enough to kill; still B living on year after year the tabernacal for a spirit B that can enjoy and suffer, that can be enchanted I by hope or cast down by sorrow who can com-B com-B prohend the double marvel? No one, of course, fl and still why should not the soul, when the old I frame at last wears out and crumbles, why should B it not have builded for it a dwelling out of a ma-B ma-B torial that is not subject to the restrictions of the I body, but which is as inttnortal as it itself is? If fl anyone because of the limitation of the senses I denies such a possibility, for how much does the B denial count? fl The mole in the darkness cannot com, ehend I the brilliant wing or the song of the bird; we are B but moles, what know we of the music or the fl light or the robes of the beyond? |