feathers; but this is only fancy. It has behind it no more reality than has the sculptor's thought when he carves his “Statue of Liberty,” which embodies his conception of an unseen quality or condition, but which has no physical antecedent reality save in the artist's own observation and “chambers of imagery.”
My angels are exalted thoughts, appearing at the door of some sepulchre, in which human belief has buried Our angelic messengers its fondest earthly hopes. With white fingers they point upward to a new and glorified trust, to higher ideals of life and its joys. Angels are God's representatives. These upward-soaring beings never lead towards self, sin, or materiality, but guide to the divine Principle of all good, whither every real individuality, image, or likeness of God, gathers. By giving earnest heed to these spiritual guides they tarry with us, and we entertain “angels unawares.”
Knowledge gained from material sense is figuratively represented in Scripture as a tree, bearing the fruits of Knowledge and Truth sin, sickness, and death. Ought we not then to judge the knowledge thus obtained to be untrue and dangerous, since “the tree is known by his fruit”?
Truth never destroys God's idea. Truth is spiritual, eternal substance, which cannot destroy the right reflection. Corporeal sense, or error, may seem to hide Truth, health, harmony, and Science, as the mist obscures the sun or the mountain; but Science, the sunshine of Truth, will melt away the shadow and reveal the celestial peaks.
If man were solely a creature of the material senses, he would have no eternal Principle and would be mutable
