“Minds are stars in this system of nature. They differ in wisdom,
power, and glory. The wisdom of the fifth circle is less than the
sixth. The sixth seal unveils the future with the exactness of
demonstration. It unlocks the mystery of prophecy. It makes hope a
wisdom of fact. It discloses the reality of the thing sought. It opens
a world of coming events, and saves the mind from all uncertainty.
It corrects the wisdom, which makes the natural supernatural. There
is nothing above nature but God. He is supreme. Nature is his work,
and it is the natural work of his wisdom and power. Mind is the
work of God. It is a star amid other stars. It is a sun amid other
suns. It is subject to law, as are planets and stars. It is moved
by laws. Attraction and repulsion control it. Like and dislike
exert an influence. When the condition of mind is understood, and
the amount of wisdom is possessed by another mind to calculate the
power of attraction and repulsion necessary to produce a result, its
position may be defined, and its movements determined for successive
generations. The weight of attraction is not the same in all materials,
and therefore, allowances must be made for the difference. One mind may
be very empty, and consequently light, when compared with another. The
force of attraction will accordingly be less. It weighs less than more
solid materials. The lower the circle, the less it weighs; because it
is empty of wisdom, or contains but a small fraction. Attractive forces
may be estimated by the distance between them, and the weight of those
forces. When mind is attracted by mind, it is because of the power
which one exerts over the other. The influence is proportioned to the
weight. The heavier body must control the lighter. The lighter can not
govern the heavier. Attraction is with the most weight. That weight is
wisdom. Consequently, the wisest attract the less wise; and it never
can happen, that the less wise can govern the wise by attraction.
Hence, in the philosophy of nature, two bodies unlike each other, repel
each other. They separate by natural law, as they unite by natural
law. The wisdom of this law is to avoid unlike associations. The minds
unlike separate by the law of repulsion, and there must be a violation
of the law to keep them together. So, with minds of like affinities.
The weight of attraction unites the two, and they can not be disunited
without a disturbance of the law which holds them together.
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