l be added to perfect bliss, and thus will we go on until we reach
the summit and possess ourselves of all the blissful attributes of God
himself. The more knowledge we attain on earth, provided it be applied
to good, the higher will be the grade to which we will be admitted in
Heaven, and consequently the more perfect our bliss there; but if it be
directed towards the attainment of an end transgressing the laws of God
and furthering evil, the more intense will be the sufferings in the
world of punishment.

It is an incontrovertible law of natural philosophy, that not an atom of
matter can be annihilated; and it is a law as applicable to the
immaterial as to the material world. Every act we have ever committed,
every word we have ever spoken, and every thought that has ever flitted
through our minds, remains as indestructible as the throne of
Omnipotence itself. Here on earth we act, speak, and think, and then
forget the deeds we have done, the words we have spoken, and the
thoughts we have harbored; but on the day of the final reckoning, when
our spirits shall re-enter our arisen bodies, every thought, word, and
deed shall recur to us as vividly as though they had taken place at that
very instant. Thus every one has his whole life spread before him, takes
in all at a glance, and becomes his own judge; and as his conscience
approves or condemns him, so is he approved or condemned by God. And
although men are accountable, yet this does not exempt their good angels
from being judged also. Their course is judged, and if they have been
remiss in performing the duties assigned them, and have not watched
diligently over the souls committed to their charge, then they receive
the reward due to their negligence; and as those souls over which they
kept watch are the gainers or losers by their conduct, therefore it is
permitted them to judge them, as St. Paul saith, "Know ye not that the
angels are to be judged by us?"

By our WILL, as I said, we can always cast the victory on the side of
either our good or evil angel, as we choose; and when, by a long series
of victories achieved over our evil angel by the combined powers of our
will and our good angel, we are entirely freed from our evil one, then
the veil of sin and imperfection which obscures our spiritual sight is
so far removed as to enable us to behold and converse with our good
angel, and to learn much, not only of spiritual matters, but also of the
future destinies of na