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far removed from our present abode, or in a state 

 apart from embodiment ; indeed, in the parable which 

 has just been mentioned, there is nothing in the 

 wording to lead us to suppose that one disembodied 

 spirit was speaking to another, but the contrary. 



There is more light, however, if we continue to in- 

 vestigate the history of man, and to compare it with 

 that of a still higher order of intelligences. Tracing 

 beyond the resurrection, mind and body are found 

 in communion, but with all traces of mortality re- 

 moved from each. The communion, indeed, is infi- 

 nitely more perfect than at present. There is diver- 

 sity, but a diversity which merges in unity, and in 

 which the bodily and mental parts of our being are 

 essentially one; for we are told that the body has 

 become like unto that of our Saviour Christ, after his 

 resurrection. At this time, therefore, the human 

 body must be supposed to be realizable to the senses, 

 and yet susceptible of a spiritual transformation by 

 which it is removable from the senses ; so that in this 

 transformability of the one into the other, the abso- 

 lute distinction between the body and the supersen- 

 suous principle we have called mind, is lost. 



It is the same, also, with angels, who, like our- 

 selves, are created beings; and in this way we may 

 have boldness to believe that the capacity of change 

 seen in the body of our Saviour at the close of 

 His earthly history, and which has just been men- 



