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220 LETTERS.
1841.
Thank God! my dear Frances, that we shall one day
get rid of this material body. I think that is a glorious
thing; for I feel often deeply the truth of what is written
in the Book of wisdom: “The mortal body burdens the
soul, and the earthly body makes heavy the mind ;” and
I feel that we shall be able to love more warmly and to
think better, when we are set free from the chrysalis, which
again and again throws its folds round the spirit longing
for liberty. I feel it also now, when a lingering cloud of
migraine in my head presses down my thoughts and words,
which fain would reach you, and infolds the mind so that it
feels itself fettered. Ah! it will be indeed delightful one
day to get rid of this heavy and infirm load. A body
(form, organs,) we shall get, for it is the antitype and in-
dispensable expression of the soul. The resurrection of
Christ, is the real manifestation hereof. St. Paul explains
this in his splendid Epistle to the Corinthians (1 Cor. xv.
35-57) wherein he says: “It is sown a natural body;
it is raised a spiritual body.”. . . “It is sown in dishonor ;
it is raised in glory,” ete., ete. Raisedin glory, in power!
Yes, but on condition that we, here in mortality, develop
the life, which beyond the grave shall be thus raised also
in outward glory. Is there on earth a nourishment, a food
which can strengthen and develop man to become heav-
enly, to become a citizen in the kingdom of glory? Is
there on earth a heavenly bread, a heavenly wine? You
long to reach heaven. Look up to the symbol thereof,
which arches itself over our heads. Does not all light
come from thence? Light, the cheerful, the warm, the
vivifying, which gives to all beings, to all conditions de-
velopment and beauty; in which all attain their glorifica-
tion, and which, reflected in millions of rays, gives itself to
all beings, gives to all a part of its life. Thus there is in
every thing from which our soul derives nourishment, a
secret, divine power, a heavenly bread and wine given
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