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Hafaz, The Egyptian.
" Faith only may accompany thee , " replied his guide . " Here we part . Truth is immortal , and cannot die . But on the opposite side of this abyss thou shalt again behold me , not as now , harsh and unlovely , but resplendent in youth and eternal beauty . " " Can truth then change ? " demanded her pupil . " No " replied the Goddess , " but man ' s earthly nature cannot comprehend ' her full perfection . Farewell ! on earth Truth leads but to
1 " AnThereafter ? " demanded the Egyptian , a smile of hope illuminating his anxious countenance . . . « f 0 joy , " replied the Spirit , " the heart cannot conceive , the tongue lacks words ' to name . Adieu ! rest thy appointed time . "
" Know , mortals , know , ere first ye sprung , Ere these orbs in ether hung , I shone amid the heavenly throng ; These eyes beheld creation ' s day , This voice began the choral lay , And taught Archangels their triumphant song . Then erect in youthful
" , man arose grace , Heaven's hallowed image stamp'd upon his face , And as he rose , the high behest was given , That I alone , of all the host of heaven , Should reign protectress of the Godlike youth . Thus the Almighty spoke—he spoke , and call'd me Truth .
THE MIND INDEPENDENT OP MATTER . — ' ? Man , at the age of twenty , retains not a particle of the matter in which his mind was invested when he was born . Nevertheless , at the age of eighty years , he is conscious of being the same individual he was as far back as his memory cani goi ; that is to say , to the period when he was four or five years old . Whatever it be , therefore , in which this consciousness of identity resides , it of material substancesinceif it had been materialit
cannot consist a , , , must have been repeatedly changed ; and the source of identity must have been destroyed . It is , consequently , an ethereal spirit , and as it remains the same , throughout all the alterations that take place in the bodv it is not dependent on the body for its existence ; and is thus calculated to survive the ever-changing frame by which it is encircled . That frame becomes stiff , cold , and motionless , when the circulation ot consi to the eat th and is separated binsects
the blood ceases ; it is gned y into a thousand other forms of matter ; but the mind undergoes no such transformation . It is unassailable by the worm . If matter subjecas it is to perpetual changes , do not , and cannot possibly , perish , how can the mind perish , which knows of no mutation ? There is no machinery prepared by which such an object could be accomplished ; nor could for such mthout an entesubversion
machinery be prepared a purpose , of the laws of nature . But , as these laws have emanated from the wisdom of the Creator , they could not 'be , altered , m »^ «*™?*^ without involving an inconsistency , into which it is impossible for Divine Wisdom to fall . " VOL . nr . " ¦ 3 L
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Hafaz, The Egyptian.
" Faith only may accompany thee , " replied his guide . " Here we part . Truth is immortal , and cannot die . But on the opposite side of this abyss thou shalt again behold me , not as now , harsh and unlovely , but resplendent in youth and eternal beauty . " " Can truth then change ? " demanded her pupil . " No " replied the Goddess , " but man ' s earthly nature cannot comprehend ' her full perfection . Farewell ! on earth Truth leads but to
1 " AnThereafter ? " demanded the Egyptian , a smile of hope illuminating his anxious countenance . . . « f 0 joy , " replied the Spirit , " the heart cannot conceive , the tongue lacks words ' to name . Adieu ! rest thy appointed time . "
" Know , mortals , know , ere first ye sprung , Ere these orbs in ether hung , I shone amid the heavenly throng ; These eyes beheld creation ' s day , This voice began the choral lay , And taught Archangels their triumphant song . Then erect in youthful
" , man arose grace , Heaven's hallowed image stamp'd upon his face , And as he rose , the high behest was given , That I alone , of all the host of heaven , Should reign protectress of the Godlike youth . Thus the Almighty spoke—he spoke , and call'd me Truth .
THE MIND INDEPENDENT OP MATTER . — ' ? Man , at the age of twenty , retains not a particle of the matter in which his mind was invested when he was born . Nevertheless , at the age of eighty years , he is conscious of being the same individual he was as far back as his memory cani goi ; that is to say , to the period when he was four or five years old . Whatever it be , therefore , in which this consciousness of identity resides , it of material substancesinceif it had been materialit
cannot consist a , , , must have been repeatedly changed ; and the source of identity must have been destroyed . It is , consequently , an ethereal spirit , and as it remains the same , throughout all the alterations that take place in the bodv it is not dependent on the body for its existence ; and is thus calculated to survive the ever-changing frame by which it is encircled . That frame becomes stiff , cold , and motionless , when the circulation ot consi to the eat th and is separated binsects
the blood ceases ; it is gned y into a thousand other forms of matter ; but the mind undergoes no such transformation . It is unassailable by the worm . If matter subjecas it is to perpetual changes , do not , and cannot possibly , perish , how can the mind perish , which knows of no mutation ? There is no machinery prepared by which such an object could be accomplished ; nor could for such mthout an entesubversion
machinery be prepared a purpose , of the laws of nature . But , as these laws have emanated from the wisdom of the Creator , they could not 'be , altered , m »^ «*™?*^ without involving an inconsistency , into which it is impossible for Divine Wisdom to fall . " VOL . nr . " ¦ 3 L