ment of the Divine, but that reformation and advance cannot take place until the body and mind are well and act in correspondence, or else are severed so that the man enters a state of instruction in the spiritual world.
A sound mind in a sound body is the true order of man. Sin, or, what is better understood, all the elements of selfishness are the primal causes of disease of mind and body. If disease is contagious and may be absorbed by the guiltless, so health is more contagious and may be absorbed by the guilty. That we may receive and transmit life should be our ruling desire. The "tree of life" is in the midst of every soul, though the false conceptions of life, springing from placing the senses above the spirit, may seem to remove it to the borders or background of consciousness. When we take our knowledge of the Lord's Omniscience, Omnipresence and Omnipotence as a fact for conscious experience, when we believe influx to be not a theory, but our life, when the facts of correspondence of soul and body are employed in place of the theory, then again will the "tree of life" appear in the centre of consciousness, growing, not without our care, as in the Eden-Garden of childlike delight, but, springing from the thought-ways of an orderly and well-used mind, it will produce the fruit of all manner of spiritual satisfactions and will scatter itself abroad like leaves for the healing of nations, producing the universal "peace of God,"—the New Jerusalem.
CLYDE W. BROOMELL.
Boston, 1907.
