mal spirit. This perfected body can be compared to a
mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror
breaks, the bounty of the sun continues; and if the mirror is destroyed or
ceases to exist, no harm will happen to the bounty of the sun, which is
everlasting. This spirit has the power of discovery; it encompasses all
things. All these wonderful signs, these scientific discoveries, great
enterprises and important historical events which you know are due to it.
From the realm of the invisible and hidden, through spiritual power, it
brought them to the plane of the visible. So man is upon the earth, yet he
makes discoveries in the heavens. From known realities--that is to say,
from the things which are known and visible--he discovers unknown things.
For example, man is in this hemisphere; but, like Columbus, through the
power of his reason he discovers another hemisphere--that is, America--which
was until then unknown. His body is heavy, but through the help of
vehicles which he invents, he is able to fly. He is slow of movement, but
by vehicles which he invents he travels to the East and West with extreme
rapidity. Briefly, this power embraces all things.

But the spirit of man has two aspects: one divine, one satanic--that is to
say, it is capable of the utmost perfection, or it is capable of the
utmost imperfection. If it acquires virtues, it is the most noble of the
existing beings; and if it acquires vices, it becomes the most degraded
existence.

The fourth degree of spirit is the heavenly spirit; it is the spirit of
faith and the bounty of God; it comes from the breath of the Holy Spirit,
and by the divine power it becomes the cause of eternal life. It is the
power which makes the earthly man heavenly, and the imperfect man perfect.
It makes the impure to be pure, the silent eloquent; it purifies and
sanctifies those made captive by carnal desires; it makes the ignorant
wise.

The fifth spirit is the Holy Spirit. This Holy Spirit is the mediator
between God and His creatures. It is like a mirror facing the sun. As the
pure mirror receives light from the sun and transmits this bounty to
others, so the Holy Spirit is the mediator of the Holy Light from the Sun
of Reality, which it gives to the sanctified realities. It is adorned with
all the divine perfections. Every time it appears, the world is renewed,
and a new cycle is founded. The body of the world of humanity puts on a
new garment. It ca