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owing. The return in man of his spirit or life to its source from the 

 divergence, -whereby it is set free, and is assured of possessing all things, 

 is called a new life in him; and the beginning of this new life in man is 

 as much out of his own power as is his natural life. This eternal life has 

 no development in the present state of the earth, the latter being wholly 

 adapted to its successive divergences. The nature of man leads him to 

 suppose that in progressive nations mankind can become gradually more 

 fitted for a higher state of existence; and if it were so, Christ, or the 

 eternal life, would be only the end of the eternal life, and not also the 

 beginning, and this life would continually increase in perfection; but, as it 

 will appear, it is not so — all cases of its progress are merely divergences, 

 and by the unity of system cannot be otherwise than so, though in each 

 development there is an analogy to a higher state, as will afterwards be 

 noticed. 



As the spirit of life and all power proceeds from the Deity, and is in 

 unity with its source, or pure and perfect, and as the natural life also 

 originates in the Spirit and by Christ, it is evident that they are identical, 

 the natural spirit being a divergence of the eternal spirit, and more or less 

 opposed to it, and thus having its limits in all its manifestations, or in 

 all the creatures of this world. Accordingly, it is found that the one 

 spirit is frequently mentioned in conjunction with the other, and that the 

 increase of one is attended with an equal decrease of the other, the one 

 being transferred or converted to the other, or suppressed in proportion to 

 the growth of the other. This process is as various as are the agents 

 in whom it occurs, and may be sudden or slow, early in life or late in 

 life, permanent or transitory, the predisposition or feeling of the want for 

 the change being always required of the persons before they receive it. 

 As before mentioned, this present life in every creature requires a sup- 

 pression of the eternal life, being in divergence or opposition to the source 

 whence it proceeds, and a renewal is ordained to follow this suppression, 

 but a second renewal is not allowed in case of a second suppression. 



(To be continued.) 



MOSSES IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF STOKESLEY, 



YORKSHIRE. 



by J. r>. 



The under -mentioned Mosses were found in the course of a very few 

 walks, taken for the most part with another object than that of collecting 

 them. Perhaps an experienced Botanist — a title to which I have no claim 



