15 Now, if you have no better proving of your plea than that the priests have told you so, you do not know; you simply guess.
16 Regard not, then, what any man has said; let us forget the flesh, and go with mind into the land of fleshless things; mind never does forget.
17 And backward through the ages master minds can trace themselves; and thus they know.
18 Time never was when man was not.
19 That which begins will have an end. If man was not, the time will come when he will not exist.
20 From God’s own Record Book we read: The Triune God breathed forth, and seven Spirits stood before his face. (The Hebrews call these seven Spirits, Elohim.)
21 And these are they who, in their boundless power, created everything that is, or was.
22 These Spirits of the Triune God moved on the face of boundless space and seven ethers were, and every ether had its form of life.
23 These forms of life were but the thoughts of God, clothed in the substance of their ether planes.
24 (Men call these ether planes the planes of protoplast, of earth, of plant, of beast, of man, of angel and of cherubim.)