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28. What is the Unseen Universe ? It existed before and will exist after 
the Visible. Luminiferous Ether a bridge between the two worlds. 
29. Spiritual Bodies. 
30. Alternative : that the preceding Unseen Universe either had life or 
had it not. The Principle of Continuity shuts out the Uncondi- 
tioned. 
31. Conditioned God, the only God we know. The Holy Ghost, condi- 
tioned, develops the subjective life of the Universe. 
32. But what is life ? (Considerations as to Energy : — and the vortex-atoms. — 
Sir William Thomson and Helmholtz). 
33. But are Energy and Matter distinct creations ? Both come from the Un- 
seen Universe, which is eternal, according to the Law of Continuity. 
34. Miracles are no more breaks of Continuity than Creation was. 
35. The Principle of Continuity holds if we allow an invisible essentially 
connected with the visible Universe. 
36. Conservation of moral results in the Invisible. The Law of Continuity 
implies the Eternity of the whole Universe. 
the universe. Real point at issue stated. Man presents the highest order of the 
present visible universe. The same idea pervades the Old Testament. And it 
likewise pervades the New Testament. 
Chapter VII. —The Unseen Universe. 
Decadence of the visible universe. Its arrangements apparently wasteful. Explana- 
tion of this. Memory of the universe. Connection between seen and unseen. 
Physical explanation of a future state. Dr. Thomas Young’s conception of the 
unseen. 
Objections to the proposed theory of a future state replied to: — Religious. Theologi- 
cal. Scientific. Quasi-Scientific. 
Miracles and the Resurrection of Christ: — Objections of extreme school stated. 
Development has produced the visible universe. Its atoms resemble manufac- 
tured articles. Development through intelligence. Idea clothed in concrete 
form. Christian theory of the development of the universe. Life development 
— Biogenesis. Life comes from the unseen universe. Christian theory of life 
development. Position of life in the universe discussed. Meteoric hypothesis 
Implies Discontinuity. Discussion of the notion that all matter is in some simple 
sense alive. Life, as well as matter, comes to us from the unseen universe. 
Position reviewed. Miracles possible without breach of continuity. 
Peculiar communication with the unseen in the case of Christ. Apparent breaks 
are concealed avenues leading to the unseen. Probable nature of present con- 
nection between seen and unseen. Angelic intelligences. Remarks on God’s 
providential government. Our argument may be veiy much detached from all 
conceptions of the Divine essence. Christian conceptions of Heaven. Two 
ideas in all Christian hymns. Possible glimpse into the conditions of the future 
life. Darker side of the future. Plato on the markings of the soul. Christian 
Gehenna. Mediaeval idea of Hell. The process in the Gehenna of the New Testa- 
