The worlds of spirit that surround each planet partake of the nature of the minds upon those planets; but the worlds of angels that abide between and through all these partake of the nature of no planet, and belong to no class of personalities but are in themselves cosmical, and may govern a world, or a system of worlds, in the realm of thought, and abide each as a consciousness without the petty thought that occupies and is the prevailing idea of the human mind. Such great souls as these fill all those spaces that are supposed to be void, and occupy worlds which they themselves have aided to evolve, or cause to be formed, in exact proportion to their ideal of harmony. All that distant stellar and beautiful realm wherein is revealed system upon system of worlds, so remote that they seem as nebulous masses – all the stellar way whereby the space of heaven seems cleft in twain with a pathway of light, is made of systems of worlds, each one of which is governed and guided by a master mind who has, even from the nebulous mass, moved upon those planets and bade them do his bidding, each governed and directed by a soul that, having vanquished in lesser states of being material substance, outwardly guides and directs it now, to the end that all other souls may likewise become as he, possessed of the master-key of knowledge and of science, able to unlock the secret mysteries of creation, and reveal the potent spell whereby the atom and the world are made.
Strauss and the modern philosophers must have a primordial cell before organic life is made, and must have the atom before a world is formed. The soul just risen and disenthralled is not in need of any such beginnings, since it knows whereof the primordial cell is made, and sees the atoms as they are whirled into outward form, and knows that the beginnings of all life are the spirit. Science cannot go beyond the molecule, or the duad , or the monad of atomic structure. The soul that is behind nature knows whereof the monad and duad of outward structure have their beginnings, and sees that a thought from the primal centre of one of these souls is able to people a planetary world. Jupiter swaying the heavens and governing the lightnings in their course might be a fable to modern interpretation but the thought of it was born in the gigantic soul that, ruling the earth and swaying the solar system, looks forward to the perfection of every human spirit even unto angelhood crowned and glorified. Thus are worlds made, not from the outer to the spirit, but from the spirit to the outer. But the thought which is within the soul may have shape and form and expression, and so sway and govern itself that instead of slumbering in the Godhead the soul itself shall, like God, though in a finite degree, express the infinite.
To what end is all this formation of life? To the end just stated, that a veiled divinity, or a soul self-contained, possesses no expression of its power. Consciousness is that expression. Contact with matter affords that; and the spirit of man is the fragment of a soul sent into outward form for the purpose of revealing its consciousness by longing for the other fragment duos. These are the sublime truths upon which hinge all spiritual life and existence, and without which the hope and aspiration of immortality were as a bauble, and all worlds were as toys. Time was when the solar system was not. Time never was when the entire substances in all the systems in the universe were not shaped in some form of planetary life. If chaos was here, there was order elsewhere. If there was no room for a soul upon the earth because it had not yet been born, there were other worlds and other room whereby souls were still developing their contact with matter. Time will be when the world and all the solar system shall have expressed the highest purpose possible for matter to express, and will then merge again into the original chaos or cosmos; but this in turn will be again evolved, and other worlds, while the solar system is in chaos, will express the highest thought, and be peopled by races, and give forth angels and shall be borne to the worlds of spirits with added power because of this contact.
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