through instruments. But in the world of dreams the soul sees when the
eyes are closed. The man is seemingly dead, lies there as dead; the ears
do not hear, yet he hears. The body lies there, but he--that is, the
soul--travels, sees, observes. All the instruments of the body are
inactive, all the functions seemingly useless. Notwithstanding this, there
is an immediate and vivid perception by the soul. Exhilaration is
experienced. The soul journeys, perceives, senses. It often happens that a
man in a state of wakefulness has not been able to accomplish the solution
of a problem, and when he goes to sleep, he will reach that solution in a
dream. How often it has happened that he has dreamed, even as the prophets
have dreamed, of the future; and events which have thus been foreshadowed
have come to pass literally.

Therefore, we learn that the immortality of the soul, or spirit, is not
contingent or dependent upon the so-called immortality of the body,
because the body in the quiescent state, in the time of sleep, may be as
dead, unconscious, senseless; but the soul, or spirit, is possessed of
perceptions, sensations, motion and discovery. Even inspiration and
revelation are obtained by it. How many were the prophets who have had
marvelous visions of the future while in that state! The spirit, or human
soul, is the rider; and the body is only the steed. If anything affects
the steed, the rider is not affected by it. The spirit may be likened to
the light within the lantern. The body is simply the outer lantern. If the
lantern should break, the light is ever the same because the light could
shine even without the lantern. The spirit can conduct its affairs without
the body. In the world of dreams it is precisely as this light without the
chimney glass. It can shine without the glass. The human soul by means of
this body can perform its operations, and without the body it can,
likewise, have its control. Therefore, if the body be subject to
disintegration, the spirit is not affected by these changes or
transformations.

It is an evident fact that the body does not conduct the process of
intellection or thought radiation. It is only the medium of the grossest
sensations. This human body is purely animal in type and, like the animal,
it is subject only to the grosser sensibilities. It is utterly bereft of
ideation or intellection, utterly incapable of the processes of reason.
The animal perceives what its eye sees and judges w