Lastly, in the youth of thought, they are refined into light; and that light is capable of subsisting in a latent state, the experience of the stricken flint, of lightning from the clouds, and the like, served to prove, or at least, it supplied a popular answer to the objection;--"If the soul be light, why is it not visible ?" That the purest light is invisible to our gross sense, and that visible light is a compound of light and shadow, were answers of a later and more refined period.

Observe, however, that the Hebrew Legislator precluded all unfit applications of the materializing fancy by forbidding the people to 'imagine' at all concerning God.

For the ear alone, to the exclusion of all other bodily sense, was he to be designated, that is, by the Name.

All else was for the mind--by power, truth, wisdom, holiness, mercy.
Prop.II.ch.ii.p.

36.
I fear I must surrender my hope that Mr.Oxlee was an exception to the rule, that the study of Rabbinical literature either finds a man 'whimmy', or makes him so.