There is no theory in religion or science, unless it includes that which we are teaching, that will explain why it is necessary for one man to live until he is eighty or ninety years of age and a babe to die before it is a week old, or before it is born. If it is said in reply, that the spirit state can supply all the lock of experience on earth, why not in all cases? Why must any grow old?

We find that there are numberless ways in which Soul-life can be expressed, and each Soul can and does find absolute expression in all possible states of human existence, so the life of an hour or a moment may balance the life of fourscore or a century. Thus there is no loss, because in the great culminations of existence, just as in experiments in science, those states which are stepping stones, experiments toward a result, are not counted, only the successes; so in all these successive lines of embodiments, for every nickering life that goes out before one has time to know that it is here, there is always opportunity and time to equalize and balance all; and whatever was unexpressed, seemingly, finds expression; and the real intent of each embodiment is expressed.

To have the whole of human experience one form must not only die when it is eighty, but one form must die before there is birth; the expressions and experiences include all possible states. The spirit state in each embodiment is included in the whole plan. Tour spirit life, or spirit world, is not disturbed by these teachings. It is only provided with a diviner sense and recognition: is included in the larger sphere of being. A knowledge which is far greater, and is encompassed and surrounded by as much larger life than before, as the sun's light is brighter and more potent than that of the moon.

Spiritualism without these lessons is as the moon revolving around the earth. In the moonlight of existence, limited by certain spiritual states, you may glow and shine after the state of earth, but when you find the source of the light of the spirit, it is this Soul-life which includes all spiritual states and all human existence. Under its divine and solvent radiance you are not only reconciled to birth and death, but to any birth, and to the death that is in human life; you are reconciled to all different conditions in outward existence; to all those states in spirit life that are not provided for in theology, and that Spiritualism only touches lightly or not at all, and can not explain, and can not answer. This light is the only solution of the heretofore, and of those states far beyond spirit existence, in the realm we name angelic. Those differences also in spiritual conditions you know are ultimately all to be solved, but how, or in what way, has not been revealed except in this light of the Soul.

Spiritual existence, as a rule, includes the period of time which would be required for the full perfection of the life on earth, and for the carrying forward of its purposes in spirit life.

As there is approach toward the final culmination in embodiments on earth the spiritual harvest is riper before entering spirit life, so the interval of time between embodiments is much lessened, for as the embodiments approach the final culmination there is more rapid tendency to expression. It would not be surprising to you to know that where geniuses have been perfected in many ways and there are many lines of culminations coming together that the embodiments are much more rapid, that the earthly ties are less dominant, as they are not needed, and that at last only the spirit prevails and the Soul seeks expression in its final states on earth.

We have endeavored in this and the preceding lessons to impress upon you the equality of all Souk, we have endeavored to impress upon you the absolute justice of this law of expression as applied to all Souls. We should like to impress upon yon more fully that which should be the lesson, particularly to mortals in their present state, that not only everything is possible for each individual Soul, but that no Soul ever expressed any genius or splendid quality that all will not express.

We would like to give encouragement to such as are athirst, seemingly restless and dissatisfied, that what is not attained will surely be won; and even though it may be valueless when it is attained, you must each accomplish it and find it out for yourself. No one can have expression for another. Even in the short space of one generation the son never follows the admonitions of the father, unless the son is older than the father in expression, but if he is not older in experience he will have his own experience, whatever the admonition may be, and he soon gets it in life. No human life can have experience for another. One who has never experienced love can not declare what it is, so that divine impulse, of love, must ultimately come into every life in all guises until the light of Soul-love is known. No one can tell what religion is, until a religious force is born within; others may call it a dream, enthusiasm, unreality; may have no interpretation wherewith to solve the sacred flame, but if it has been experienced it is understood. The same is true of poetry: many may write in the rhyme, or rhythm, or measure, of poetry who are not poets; but no one can understand the quaiity or essence of poetry unless he is a poet This can be applied to music, to all attainments. Often that which one will throw away when it is won, proves by the desire of having it that it must be won; and each will be obliged to win for this experience: the joy of conquest and the disappointment of it too.

That which allures and captivates man's ambition and deceives his conscience, is a false height from which he may, perhaps, perceive the real mountains upon which the true light shines afar off, but he must descend into the valleys to reach them. Han may build towers for observing the stars, but he can not reach them by climbing to the top of the towers. So each tower of pride, ambition, false hope, or love, man will build; nay more than this: he may wear the laurel wreath and the wreath of bay, and prove what the greatest in the world have known for all the ages, that both of these bear more thorns than did the crown of thorns on the brow of Christ.

Please also remember, that it is not possible while one is measuring the deeps to recoil from them, nor for any to have had experience that all have not had, or that they must not have; it is not possible for one height to have been attained or any beauty or perfection, however fair they seem, or that fairest height of all, moral and spiritual perfection, exemplified in the greatest teachers, revealed in the loftiest minds of earth, that all will not one day attain.

As, sometimes, one's past is a background against which one draws the contrast of the present with the past attainment, let your present imperfections be the background against which the light that is divine shall picture the future achievement in glorious and triumphant beauty; and then remember that that achievement, great, and wonderful and perfect as it may be, will form but the stepping stone to that higher height, that diviner glory which shall follow.