"Do you look upon him as a personal Deity--I mean as an exaggerated
man in size and power--or as a Spirit?"

"As a Spirit," Paul replied.

"Very well, then; do you believe that Spirit is infinite or finite?"

"Infinite."

"Then, if it is infinite, there can be no part of space in which it
does not exist."

"That is my idea also."

"If, then, that Spirit exists everywhere, it must penetrate all
matter; in fact, all matter must, in its very essence, be a part of
it; it must be formed out of the very substance of this infinite
Spirit or Mind. Hence all is mind!"

"That seems clear enough," said Paul; "in which case it seems to me
that we are a part of God ourselves, and God being spirit, we must be
spirits now."

"Of course we are," answered Ah Ben; "as I have already told you, we
are in the spiritual world now, although much of it is screened from
our view, because we are temporarily imprisoned in a lower vibratory
plane, called matter."

Ah Ben arose, and procuring candles, which he lighted by the expiring