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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

The Suns are the Self-Luminous Perfected Worlds of the Uni

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CHAPTER II

Our Sun is Like Our World, Only a Greater World of Prolific
Life and Power

CHAPTER III

The Sun is Not Hot, nor a Gaseous Globe nor Burning

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The Sun's Photosphere is a Brilliant Encircling Aurora
Borealis Created by its Surplus Electricity

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The Planets are the Hatcheries of Human Souls, the Suns
Their Place of Maturity and Perfection

CHAPTER VIII

All Visible Things are Composed of Atoms and Electricity, which are as Invisible as the Soul

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PREFACE

In this volume I have endeavored by scientific deductions to create new ideals of man's future life, and give it a habitation and a place.

It is said, "Spirits are not finely touched but to fine issues," and the human being is primarily as well as potentially the spiritual being even in this part of life. Hope, that springs eternal in the human breast, and faith, are the guides and evidence of another life.

He that makes us believe, does not play false with us in our nature. His inspiration is our conviction, stronger than verbal declaration, ghostly apparition, or bodily resurrection.

Channing said: "The only argument against a future life is the greatness of the conception—it is too wonderful." Ah! but to live at all-this is the marvel, the strange and impossible, the greatest wonder and surprise of all. After this there are no wonders, no more impossibilities. To live one day is as great a miracle as to live an eternity.

"I look to see science prove immortality," said a great modern thinker. "This is the message it will bring to-day, and if not to-day to-morrow. For there is a distinct approach of the two worlds, the seen and the unseen; each of which is flashing its signals to the other."

This seems prophetic, for in the higher spiritualization of human life will be developed spiritual

truth, and the true conditions for a knowledge of the life beyond.

Huxley touched a high point of truth when he said, “Science is not Christianity or anti-Christianity. It is extra Christianity." It is, I contend, supplemental Christianity: nature testifying to natural law, and nature's lawmaker. There is no atheism in nature. Atheism is universal anarchy in both the natural and the spiritual world; while God is a scientific necessity in both. Science shows that the normal condition of all matter is invisible. Its elemental substance is the viewless atom. All physical science is founded on the atomic theory of invisible particles, or spirit of matter, a thousand times more transparent and invisible than the air we breathe-as invisible as soul, as viewless as mind, as intangible as thought, and as imperceptible as Deity. Science asserts that this invisible matter comes from the sun freely, swiftly, and imperceptibly; and much of it returns again; and, according to the electric theory, the sun is not hot.

If invisible matter does these things, why not the invisible soul? If the sun is the centre of all life and light to the material world, why not to the spiritual world? If matter in its elemental form is indestructible and eternal, why is not man's soul, which commands and controls it, indestructible and immortal?

It is a scientific fact that elemental matter is as far from our microscopic reach as the sun is from our telescopic reach; and we know as much about our souls as we do about the matter that composes our body, or the sunlight that makes our day. Huxley says, "We know more of mind than we do of matter."

May not the mind or soul in time learn a new telegraphy and send wireless messages to our loved and lost in the all-life-giving sun, and feel their responses coming back throbbing with glad tidings of their glorious and happy life?

I do not despair of the inhabitants of this sphere getting in touch with those of the origin of light and life, or with Mars or some of the other planets. If the telephone and the telectroscope can render audible and visible to the human ear and eye of this age the voice and person of another a thousand miles distant, will not this same invisible force render audible and visible to the more refined and tutored sense and spirit of future generations the wonders and harmonies of the universe?

Again, if the genius of man can invent a simple instrument like the spectroscope that can register the elements of the distant sun and stars, will not that same genius in time catch the whisperings of the spheres, the hum of the cities of the sun, and the language of the divines of heaven? May not a whisper be heard to the bounds of the universe if the ear is properly attuned? Has not man discovered in the last half-century an invisible electric force that ignores time and space, and, like Deity, has no limitations? And may not the coming ages make such discoveries that a man in the proper condition can see the air filled with spiritual beings that walk the earth unseen as did the seers and prophets of old? All scientific analogy teaches that the sun is not only the physical and electric, but also the spiritual, centre of our solar system; that all things come from and all things must return to the sun, which is the earth's physical creator, and the spiritual headquarters of Deity. The beauty and mag

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