receives oxygen and gives off carbonicide. Plants receive from the coarser and more tangible forms of “matter” and give it out. again in finer essence. Man does the same.

But man has likewise thrown out roots in the Great Unseen, through which he receives an ever increasing portion of his sus­tenance; which is brought down and given out in coarser form to earth and plant. Man’s veins and arteries carry the transmutations of earth matter, which he invisibly gives out; while his nerves reverse the order, and throb with wisdom and love, which come down from "spirit" into “matter” and are given off in coarse and concrete form.

Just as man must receive food and give out to the atmosphere, so he must receive from the spiritual atmosphere and give downward to earth. He must express wisdom and love, inspired from above earth; express it in terms of earth. Thus it is true that

“The worlds in which we live are two,

The world I AM and the world I do."

Human and divine life are One, and the individual continues to exist as long as there is good circulation between the ideal and the real.

Some time in past ages man’s feet were simple roots, fast to earth. He learned by centuries of effort to pick his roots out of the ground and walk off on them -- in search of more food. This is a great advantage to him. But if he should now go up in a balloon and stay there for some days, breaking all connections with earth, he would melt into thin air.

In childhood the imagination is firmly rooted in the ideal world, and his feet are at the same time firmly set upon the earth. So he grows fast, mentally and physically, and increases in wisdom, love and power.

But by and by he begins to detach himself from the ideal. He detaches one rootlet after another and all the other earth folks pat him on the back and congratulate him because he is “growing up” and becoming “sensible.” So he goes on detaching himself from the world of spirit, whilst he plants himself more firmly in earth. By and by he is altogether detached from heaven. He