Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. FHOM THE IYHICAL PARADISE Or THE HEAVEN OF SPIRITS. Seven great diversities of human genius enter into the composition of the votary of High Art: the Sacerdotal, the Mathematical, the Synthetic, the Analytical, the Poetical, the Inductive, and the Intuitive. The production of artistic textit{chef-d'auores depends upon the happy combination and seven-fold harmony of these distinctive elements. There is, at the present time, a grand refining process operative from the Heaven of Spirits, and quickening as well as purifying the natural ultimates of human organizations. Organisms, by means of the operation of this refining process, are being prepared to serve as artistic instruments through whom the sacerdotal, the mathematical, the poetic, the synthetic, the analytical, the inductive, and the intuitive revelations, combinations, and productions of Divine Harmony shall be communicated from the World of Causes, which is Spiritual, and gloriously made manifest among men in the World of Effects, which is the Natural or External Earth. The medium through whom the work of which this is the preface, is given, though still in an exceedingly feeble condition, is inborn into the Spirit-World, by means of which birth he is enabled to occupy a mediatorial position between the world of causes and the world of ultimates. And because his interiors are of a sacerdotal character, he is permitted to be impressed from Societies of Hierophants who discharge the priestly function in the Heaven of Spirits. And because in his interiors he takes delight in celestial mathematics, he is permitted to receive impressions from Societies of Spirit Men who meditate deeply upon the science of forms, number, degrees, anil their onrvchitives, though externally hi:! knowl edge of mathematics is ...