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which undecayed particles does the spirit or astral body
remain? Is it a case of attenuation? Or of division? Or is it a case of cellular or molecular multiplication? Or always
of radiation? Or of vibration? Which is it? Which, which?
Oh, "what fools these mortals be!" Are we not told, that
"Spirit" is God, God is omnipresent in every minutest
thing, what does it matter then if we were blown into atoms we may profess? Each atom is imponderable, in- destructible, impalpable, a part of "the incomprehensible original motive power, " to quote Linnaeus. But has
each individual atom also individual consciousness? Ay,
"there’s the rub," but I will tell you: The never failing instinct of every individual atom proclaims the ever pres- ent intelligent volition of an Omnipotent God.
A practical illustration may be added: If a man has a
leg or arm amputated, he may even for some time be -un- conscious thereof, and after the operation for a long time
still feel the usual extension of the limb, and the astral toes and fingers, so to speak, being occasionally benumbed
by cold. What does this infer? But after some length of time the feeling ceases. What does this infer, if not that
the segregated limb has by this time completely decomposed and withdrawn its astral counterpart from the main
body? It is related how a man had his nose badly hurt, and
to repair the same another man kindly allowed a part of his skin to be cut off and grafted on the injured nose. All went merrily for a long time, but finally the generous man
who had allowed a patch of his skin to be donated to the
other man’s nose died, and after a little while the skin
patch on the nose began to decompose and had to be taken
away, or it would have infected the entire artificial nose, and made the whole affair rotten throughout. What are we to infer from that, but that the astral body of the de-
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