If the last generation had witnessed the conveyance of news from London to Paris, in an instant, while they knew nothing of the late invention of the electric telegraph, they would have testified, in all candour, and with the utmost assurance, that a miracle had been performed, in open violation of the well known laws of nature, and contrary to all human knowledge of cause and effect. But, once familiar with the arts of the living age, all those miracles cease to be such, and the laws of nature, and of cause and effect, are found to be still moving, unimpaired, in all the harmony of primeval existence and operation. The same views will apply, with equal force, to all the spiritual phenomena of the universe. The terms _miracle_ and _mystery_ must become obsolete, and finally disappear from the vocabulary of intelligences, as they advance in the higher spheres of intellectual consistency. Even now they should be used only in a relative or limited sense, as applicable to those things which are not yet within reach of our powers, or means of comprehension. We will here remind the student of two principles, or laws of existence, developed in a former chapter of this work, which will account for all the miraculous powers of the universe--all the mighty works ever manifested by God, or by His servants. First. All the elements of the material universe are eternal. Second. There is a divine substance, fluid or essence, called Spirit, widely diffused among these eternal elements. This spiritual substance is the most refined, subtle, and powerful element in the universe. It is endowed with all wisdom, all knowledge, all intelligence and power. In short, it is the light, life, power and principle of all things, by which they move; and of all intelligences, by which they think. This divine element, or Spirit, is the immediate, active, or controlling agent, in all holy, miraculous powers. Angels, and all holy men, perform all their miracles, simply, to use a modern magnetic term, by being in "_communication_" with this divine substance. Two beings, or two millions--any number thus placed in "_communication_"--all possess one mind. The mind of the one is the mind of the other, the will of the one is the will of the other, the word of the one is the word of the other. And the holy fluid, or Spirit, being in communication with them all, goes forth to control the elements, and to execute all their mandates which are legally issued, and in accordance with the mind and wisdom of the Great Eloheim. God the Father is the Head. The mandates of Jesus Christ must be in the name of the Father.