That which is expressed by the Soul can not excel the Soul. But as creation gives expression to the Will (Logos) of God, and manifests God, so existence gives expression to the will (wish) of the Soul, Souls come into the material expression by conscious lose, and pass out of it by regaining that loss. This is more fully revealed in the different states through which the Soul ascends than in the descent For this very reason: the loss of the consciousness of the unit is not measured. When you fall asleep you do not know it, but when yon awaken you are fully aware and know you have been sleeping. The falling asleep in time from the eternal wakefulness of the Soul, is so gradual and so continuous that the steps are not known in time and sense, and they can not be described, because there is nothing to fix them; it is only little by little that the Divine state ceases to be possession; little by little is the Soul enrolled in darkness and veiled from the presence of God. Matter is the primal veil which separatee the Soul from the consciousness of itself and of God. When there is a "rending of the veil" in the temple, then the Innermost is again revealed.

What this state of division is, how it may pass on and on, how gradually, through involution, Souls lose the eternal possessions and how regain them, you will hereafter more fully know. But bear in mind that all the states between the Soul and the expression in matter are states of inaction; no Soul approaching the earth for expression is useful in any spiritual or angelic state; bear in mind that no one upon whom the veil of mortal obscurity is falling can be used as a messenger of light to any Souls in any states. Voluntarily shadowed, it is like the planting of the seed in the dark that the light may cause it to germinate.

All this is revealed in a more perfect way in the conditions of the Soul between its first state and its final expression in matter. When we refer to its " first state" we do not mean that this expression necessarily begins with any particular world, or sun, or system of suns; but when Souls are in the eternal state they are aware of eternal being; when Souls are entering the avenues of expression they become less conscious of this and more conscious of existence. The state between the eternal and the temporal, between the state of the Soul and the material state, is that which we have likened unto death, or to the shadows of the night.

All that relates to expression will be more fully considered, but you will please remember, although the dual life is expressed first by this division, that duality is forever in the Soul; and this dual life is what constitutes the Soul in its entity; and whatever is less than the Soul is the division of the Soul, and is expression, but that which is the possession shall go back to the treasure house of the Soul.

We have endeavored in this lesson to bring to your consciousness and knowledge the state from which the Soul, in its first step from the absolute, is, seemingly, divided, to the state which is the final preparation for experience through matter. The earth (or other planets) already having been created, organized, and prepared to meet the Soul.

We shall give in the next lesson: