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domestic shelter and other things; seeing that they are 

 helps on the journey to the future world and in the path of 

 knowledge, they are all of them exceedingly important and 

 necessary. Delight in knowledge, delight in worship, de- 

 light in prayer and delight in communion with God are 

 things of this world, but still they are for the sake of 

 the future world. It follows, therefore, that the pleasures 

 of the world are not all of them blamable, but only those 

 which entail punishment in the future world, or which are 

 not in the path to paradise, and so the apostle declares, 

 " The world is a curse and all that is in it is a curse, ex- 

 cept the remembrance of God and that which is the 

 object of his love." 



Chapter IV. — On Knowledge op the Future World. 



Know, beloved, that we cannot understand the future 

 world, until we know what death is : and we cannot know 

 what death is, until we know what life is : nor can we un- 

 derstand what life is, until we know what the spirit is. . . . 



If you wish, student of the mysteries of God, to learn 

 the essential facts about death, you must know that there 

 are in man two kinds of spirit, one of which is of the na- 

 ture of the spirit in animals and which we call animal spirit, 

 and the other is of the nature of the spirit of angels, which 

 we call human spirit. The fountain of the animal spirit is 

 in that heart which is in the left side of the breast, and is 

 a piece of flesh. It is a delicate exhalation from the hu- 

 mors within the animal. Its constitution is fixed in certain 



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