We have thus made known who are kindred Souls; they come under charge of the same Angels, and their Angels under charge of the same Archangel They traverse together the degrees of human life, and reach those states that will be referred to throughout these lessons as the "first fruits," in each Dispensation, that are gathered by the Mes-

We now, with reverent steps, approach the most sacred shrine of the Soul in the expression here: the reunion, or recognition, on earth of the Soul, divided in expression by material existence. This is the culmination of all embodiments, the Crown and Kingdom of all experience.

As the monogamic marriage is the highest state of human society, so is it a prophecy of the Soul marriage, this divine reunion. This ideal state is revealed in all poetry, in the highest literature, and is that which constitutes the dream of the world. In every human life that is lifted above the clod, there is the one ideal state: the thought of each that there is, somewhere, another all its own, its possession. Once each one seems to remember having had this Soul companion, this other self, in some long past period of human expression; or was it an ante-natal dream, a glimpse of the heretofore and the hereafter in the skies?

The Soul, in its twofold expression, having passed through all forms of embodiment, meets. This is the perfected Soul, in its conquest over matter. What is meant by this is, that when the expression of life is spiritually perfect, when the exaltation is complete and the earth has no more temptation, the Soul having expressed in every form, then the life is complete, then the dual life appears.

Once only, in the entire series of embodiments, do these divided expressions of the Soul meet, before this final expression. In such cases the meeting is called "a happy marriage," a union of those "made for each other," a "marriage made in heaven." This meeting is when one half the cycles of earthly experience have been passed. It is a prophecy of the final recognition and leaves its impress or reminiscence. Such instances of marriage, form the typical state of human happiness; it may not be accompanied with great exaltation in any other ways; but In the perfectly happy marriage, where there is never any jar nor discord, nor divergence, there is spiritual, as well as mental and moral interchange and interblending. This is not because the two portions of the Soul are interchangeable or may be expressed, the masculine portion in other than the masculine, and the feminine in other than the feminine form, but because, in this meeting, there is a mutual exchange of experiences, which forevermore is borne on until this final experience when all the lines are complete in the Angel. This is why the most exalted men are tender and loving as a woman, not that they are "weak and effeminate," but that they are tender, kind, and feminine; because, having come in contact with the feminine portion of their Souls in expression in the one half cycle, they have received the baptism of this feminine life. The same is true with women who express, as did "George Eliot," the intellect of a man, but with all the sensitive nature of a woman; as did many Grecian women in philosophy, or poetry, or strength of physical endurance, express the qualities that are supposed to be masculine, but always coupled with refinement and delicacy.

In this, as in all other states of human expression, there are the false and the true heights; the fictitious and the real attainments; so in this Soul relation there are the most fatal earthly mistakes before the real height is reached. In many states where the life otherwise is, apparently, ideal, as in the intellectual height of Greece, marriage seems to be disgraced and disregarded; in the revolutionary period in France, when woman's power seemed to be the greatest, there was the least sanctity in the home life.

Frequently minds who are illumined somewhat on the subject of the Soul-life start from their anchorage as though they expected to become angels at once. Let no one suppose that by going out with intellectual, spiritual, or other than angel light, this angelic state is to be found. No man seeks or finds that which is greater than his attainment. The false and feverish states in social life are as easily solved in this system as the many other complex problems of human life, as yon will perceive ere the close of the lesson. When we portray the real it is the truly ideal, the divine; not a present possession with many, but a prophecy for all.

The different stages of human experience convey indications of approaches to the angelic or perfected state. Human society offers many beautiful and many painful illustrations of the true and the false heights in this direction.

In human states there are many who expect to attain this perfect angelic life while merged in the imperfection of the senses; there are those who expect to convert, or pervert, the accepted states of human society into something that will lead them to the triumph of the ideal height where their selfishness will never permit them to ascend. Human beings are not angels until the angel, by growth in expression, is fully revealed, and then the perfection is manifested in that perfect state. Many social reformers, as they are named, suppose the ideal state is to be reached by the making or unmaking of human laws, but most of the unhappy conditions and relations in human life (indeed we may say all) are the results of the states of individuals, which no human ordinance can affect One most not confound this ideal and final state with degrees of expression less than perfect Many suppose that they have to begin at the apex to build the structure of perfect life on earth, instead of growing to the height by attaining self-abnegation by growth. So it has been supposed that institutions are in the way of human happiness, but human states are in the way of perfect happiness. Let no one suppose that he or she can find this Soul-state by going out and searching for the immortal mate-hood. When one grows to the height of a perfect marriage there is no power in heaven or earth that can keep it from one. Until one grows to that height, there is no power in heaven or earth that can bring it to that one. Therefore the lesson to be learned is that every human state of society is as perfect as the individuals that compose it Fulfillment of all the duties in life, fidelity to each relation, constitute the highest law in human progress.