The Soul includes all expressions and relations in all embodiments.

The spirit of each embodiment is expressed as long in mortal and spiritual life as there is any call or demand for it. We mean by this: any duties that are unfinished, any ties that are formed and require to be maintained, any outward or material belongings in which the spirit is concerned must be preserved.

People say: I would not like to go into spirit life and not find my friends. If they are your friends you will find them, if they are not you would not wish to. All real ties are found to last in spiritual existence, and form a portion of the Soul's possessions. The larger sphere includes the smaller one. It does not detract from the relation of the moon to the earth because both revolve around the son. Nor does it render the relation of the planets in the solar system any less important because the entire system, including the sun, revolves around a mora distant central son.

Children leave their parental homes to form other ties., of marriage and parentage, bat are none the less children. One might as well suppose that the relations of life, parent and child, husband and wife, brother and sister, are blotted out by the Soul's relation to God. All are included in the Infinite Love. So this Soul-life must include all the relations and expressions of spirit, retaining the real and rejecting the shadowy or unreal.

The mother, whose child is left upon the earth, does not change her natural or spiritual relationship, she fills her function toward that child. When there is an added expression upon the earth, in another embodiment, it is after all possible duties have been filled toward the child; and that relation of mother and child, if it be real, is included as a portion of the Soul's treasures.

Generations pass, usually including from one to two hundred years, before another embodiment occurs, except in particular cases where the life has nearly reached a culmination.

There are exceptional states in the expressions of every Soul, wherein the spiritual existence after an embodiment may be very brief, or very protracted, extending to one or two thousand years, or more; but the average is, as previously stated, about two hundred years. We could mention instances where those who have lived what they have considered unfinished lives, wherein their work was not completed, and they have had a wish to take up their work again, have soon bad expression in another embodiment. We could mention instances, for illustrations, in which it was evident that one embodiment was nearly related to another, that the line of retrospect was complete, as in the case of Pythagoras.

Strange messages from spirits, that have been mysterious to those receiving them are herein explained. A lady asking of a communicating spirit for a certain spirit friend, received the answer: "He has gone on a voyage back to earth for the benefit of his Soul." Other answers, which were veiled, yet easily understood in the light of these teachings, have been given by spirits at various times, who could not explain the absence in their spirit states of certain ones whom they expected to meet Reminiscences of previous embodiments do not exist in ordinary life on earth, nor in the spirit state following the ordinary life; there-fore it is not strange that mortals do not receive these teachings from spirits usually, for unless the earthly embodiment is ready to receive them, the spirit state following the embodiment will not reveal them.

It is with spirits as with mortals: very few mortals know; but then are in each individual, in mortal and in spirit life, if the indications were carefully noted, certain flashes of reminiscence: we mean in each lives as have reached any degree of thought or intuition upon these and kindred themes.

Each spirit enters, therefore, the spiritual existence with perfect freedom and safety; as far as personal existence and relations are concerned each must carry out, as spirit, the spiritual continuation of the line of mortal life.

To the spirit of each embodiment there are no new beginnings in this spiritual state, unless those beginnings were included in the embodiment, even though veiled; but each spirit state is greater than the embodiment because the fruition of its line of expression. The spirit that has already started on earth in a line of moral excellence can not change that moral excellence in spirit life; can only carry it to a degree of perfection in that line. The one, however, who has made no conquest of temptation while in the earthly state, where temptation really exists, can not win that victory in the spiritual state. So one who passes into the spiritual state of existence, passes only to the spiritual completion of the solution of the problems already commenced, not to a moral renovation; nor is that lack of moral victory a state of active or aggressive evil in the spirit existence; it is an aggregation of weakness. Those shadowy states, frequently referred to in spirit messages, strongly pictured and typified, are not states of positive, active, aggressive, evil, but are states of negation. That which in earth life is positive, because fed by material and organic conditions, is spiritual imbecility. To be a murderer on earth is in spirit life to be a weakling. Those spirits having no knowledge of goodness have no spiritual power. All who have aims, aspirations, and exalted reflections in earthly life, pass on to spiritnal states commensurate with them.

No added embodiment is necessary until all obligations and duties belonging to the late embodiment are expressed and perfected.

Where infants pass to the spiritual state there is a spiritual purpose to be served even by the transient earthly state. You often hear mediums describe the spirit as growing up in spirit life; such is really the case. In each embodiment the impulsion or expression, even though but commenced in the earthly form, is carried out in spiritual existence, for such embodiments are not intended to be perfected here; in all cases where a child passes on, a double purpose is served. When a babe comes it is not always that it comes for expression, that little hour of life would not count as an expression; but the object is that something is wrought in the lives of its parents. These waifs that float into existence below, and linger but an hour or a year are not robbed. How stupendous would be the robbery if one human life were all they could have!