XXK INTRODUCTION. 
the different states of insects, and those of the hody 
of man, is only general, yet it is much more complete 
with respect to his soul. He first appears in this frail 
body—a child of the earth—a crawling worm—his 
soul being in a course of training and preparation for 
a more perfect and glorious existence. When it has 
finished this course, it casts off this vile body, and 
goes into a hidden state of being in Hades, where it 
rests from its works, and is prepared for its final 
consummation. The time for this being arrived, it 
comes forth clothed with a glorious body, not like its 
former, though germinating from it, for though ° it 
was sown an animal body, it shall be raised a spirit- 
ual body,’ endowed with augmented powers, faculties, 
and privileges commensurate to its new and happy 
state. And here the parallel holds perfectly between 
the insect and the man. The butterfly, the repre- 
sentative of the soul, is prepared in the Java for its 
future state of glory ; and if it be not destroyed by 
the Ichneumons and other enemies to which it is 
exposed, symbolical of the vices that destroy the 
spiritual life of the soul, it will come to its state of 
repose in the pupa, which is its Hades; and at 
length, when it assumes the zmago, break forth with 
new powers and beauty to its final glory, and the 
