The spiritual states form themselves and are adjusted to that which is central. No one can be a slave save the supremely selfish man; no one can be an orphan who is not from his own nature orphaned of love; and what you give unto others in spiritual states, that is your priceless inheritance, while that which you seek to clutch with selfish hand passes away like the sands upon the sea-shore, and is not of your possession.

Associations, therefore, are governed in spiritual life by the infallible law of love and justice, and mutual dependence; and none can hoard up treasures, since the nature of the spiritual association is such, that if you seek to hoard it, it fades from you. As no one can take a bottleful of sunshine and go away into a closet and enjoy it by himself, but must come into the light where all others can come freely, so in that which enriches and benefits the spirit, no one can possess it selfishly. He who attempts to do so robs himself of his own possession and no longer has an inheritance.

Societies for the benefit of one another, those who convene in assemblages to devise uses for the welfare of man - these form the government of spiritual existence. No landed estates shall monopolize, no suborning of press, nothing that wrests from the conciousness its divine right to rule; but only the law of the spirit, and that wisdom that the spirit is able to perceive - wise and just, and good, - can devise measures of spiritual government.

There is no governing power in hatred, no governing power in that which is selfish, no governing power in that which would build up for one's self the treasures of the heavenly kingdon - they are but shadows in the light of that Eternal presence that beams upon the spirit.

In regard to the occupations of spirit life; why, in the realm of thought all occupation dwells! The mechanic, the inventor, the musician, the poet, and the painter, each must have his occupation from the realm of thought; and in the spirit world associations of those whose pursuits and tastes are similar must be formed upon the basis of attraction.

The grand Brotherhood of Art arrays itself in sublime splendor before the vision of the seer, and the pictures of the future are to be traced from their inspirations. The grand Brotherhood of Music made harmonious by chastisement, and pain and suffering, rises into the realm of harmony by the grandeur of thought and feeling there. And if on Earth the music of Wagner is the new era in music, so in the spheres of harmony to which he has risen, he stands the leader of the grand company whose thoughts breathe harmony for the world, and he drinks in the splendor of the spheres of Music from the hopes and aspirations for humanity.

Poets congregated in the divine Brotherhood of Poesy by no mere arbitrary law of external life, but by the grander com-panionship that sees in everything the written rythm of God's hand, and traces not in words, but in human lives, the poems of love and divinest charity.

The statesmen brooding over the lands that are now desolated with crime and bloodshed, look forward to the better day of human arbitration and the adjudication of all difficulties by the mandates of reason, and giving inspiration to those who are beneath them, make a Victor Hugo a prophet, that may speak to the nations for the peace that shall come by and by. They who teach on earth and are themselves teachable of higher angels, become the instruments in spirit life of ministering to those beneath them; and vast plains of thought that never rise above the level of dull monotony of earth, are breathed upon by these inspiring presences in higher states, and made aware of grander aspirations and loftier powers.

Spirits, not kingdoms; ideas, not gold and silver; truths, not jewels and precious stones - these are the treasures that the soul must seek; and from the blank barrenness of human life and from its dreary treadmill of care, he who fulfills his duty here, loves most, performs most the sacred offices of the hour, and sanctifies the bare and barren realm of material existence with the light of the spirit, he finds his treasures in heaven and his associations with kindred souls whose aspirations are like his own.

Gazing out upon society with material vision, there seems to be a seething caldron of selfishness, and he comes upper- most who is greatest in pride, and he is sunk beneath the waves who is poor and humble. Not so in the light of the spirit.

Even the earthly states are adjusted by this divine law interpenetrating from the spheres and associations of matchless life above you. Even you feel the droppings from that celestial urn that turns out the waters of life for the future of your earth; and the future of your spiritual lives is already mirrored in your aspirations, your hopes, your prophecies and your fulfillments here.