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ever far we go either backwards or forwards. This leads us at 
once to the conception of an invisible Universe, and to see 
that such immortality is possible without a break of con 
tmuity (p. 199). 
The only physical proof, however, in favour of this immor- 
tality, is that Christ rose from the dead. Now, if 
an intelligent agent resident in the Invisible, could ph “£S £oo f 
produce the Visible Universe out of the pre-existin°- to us - 
matter of the Invisible (p. 202), why could it not accomplish 
also Christ s Resurrection to a future life, without break of 
continuity ? 
Has not the human mind also some sort of presentiment as 
to such a future? a presentiment, a kind of glimpse, as if of 
memory? (p. 157). We have said that there are 
facts almost implying that the Universe has a ha^mwtai 
memory; and sacred utterances in hymns and devout elimpses - 
inspirations (p. 201) assure us that individual minds in an ex- 
alted state may realize things of the past, and in them shadows 
of a future. Nothing is really lost; the past is always 
present (p. 202). Not only in the Invisible mav things past 
be seen by memory, but possibly things present,' which in the 
Visible would be remote, may not be so elsewhere. 
, an ? di s tan ce may he different in the Invisible Universe 
g7» 0 %7U a ? d unrelated to the vortex-rings, and perfect fluid ?) 
3b. this has also a solemn aspect, when we think of it 
morally. For the memories of the Universe beiim- 
never lost, but all conserved in the Invisible ; are 
they all good and pure ? Far from it. And no- 
thing will be covered, nothing hid, nothing secret " 
js an awful saying of Christ's (p. 203). A terrible record of 
deeds done in the body ” shall be unfolded when the “ books 
aie opened. Many a man will be like a parchment written 
within and without. (Even the heathen, as in 
Plato's Gorgias, foresaw it.) A veil is drawn in 
Scripture over the fate of the lost, when the man p ' 204 - 
comes forth in his spiritual body, and without “ the wedding- 
garment "! (p. 205). 0 
The principle of Continuity forbids our setting all this aside 
as merely figurative. The existence of evil is not limited to 
the present. The matter of the whole Visible Universe is of 
a piece with that which we recognize here (p. 206). Accident, 
pain, death, evil, we may be sure, are possible in all the Visible 
Umverse, even in other worlds than ours. That dark thread 
which is known as “ evil " is deeply woven into that garment of 
Cod which we call the Universe. 
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Moral con. 
servation of 
And “no- results in the 
Invisible. 
