4 Aug 1815

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III. Subsequential

Ch.1.

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Motives to the eyes the hands and the feet of the subject many, these pictures whatsoever they were, were means in the hands of the ruling few. The lantern the magic lantern had been constructed from the first: the slides and they only required to be changed. Of the white robes, and the golden thrones and the [...?], the images of those with which the temporal kingdom was to have had for its emblems and its instruments, the reflected images served for the spiritual kingdom with little change. For constituting the splendor with which it was necessary that a throne should at all times be encompassed, during a large portion of the 24 hours no source of illumination more resplendent or refined than wax oil or tallow could have been expected for the temporal throne: light of matchless brilliancy and from inexhaustible sources decorated the slides which presented to the eye of the mind and in some sort to that of the body the image of the spiritual throne.

For the delectation of that appetite to which the individual or of that by which the species are /is/ in a more immediate manner indebted for preservation the slides in which the delight of the temporal throne had been portrayed had indeed nothing to match them in those which appertained to the spiritual throne.