disappear with these mental states, changing as they change.
Time and space are no exceptions to the law of spiritual creation that the objective world is produced by and represents the subjective. A spirit's body changes, his clothing changes, his house changes, his scenery changes, according to the changes of his mental state. Variations in time and space are with him the external signs and proofs of variations in his emotional and intellectual condition. They are modes of his own existence.
It is day or night to the spirit, cold or warm, summer or winter, not according to the relationships existing between a rotating earth and a central sun, but according to the state of the soul or frame of the mind, and a greater or less receptivity of the love and wisdom which are the heat and light of the spiritual world. That love and wisdom enter the mind by an interior way, and are made apparent to the perceptive faculties as heat or light in the external sphere.
So also objects are near or far off in that world, not on account of fixed spatial distances, but through the operation of the law of affinity which
