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Show 6 A L e NS I ERIDRED W flowers express to us the delicate affections. Light and darkness are our familia expression for knowledge and ignorance and heat for love. Visible distance behin and before us, is respectively our image o memory and hope Who looks upon a river in a meditativ hour, and is not reminded of the flux of al things? Throw a stone into the stream, an the circles tha propagat themselve ar the beautiful type of all influence. Man i conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in firmament th nature of Justice, Truth Love, Freedom, arise and shine. This universal soul, he calls Reason: it is not min or thine or his, but we are its; we are it propert and men And the blue sk i which the private earth is buried, the sk with its eternal calm, and full of everlasting orbs, is the type of Reason. That which intellectually considered, we call Reason considered in relation to nature, we cal Spirit. Spirit is the Creator. Spirit hath lif in itself. And manin all ages and countries embodies it in his language, as the FATHER Q I is easily seen that there is nothin lucky or capricious in these analogies, bu 3 |