The giant in intellect becomes as the gladiator; in the second stage, or degree, he is worshiped who has the greatest mind. This planet as a whole has not passed the intellectual culmination. Certain nations have so culminated, and have passed on to their ripening; groups of Souls have also; but the inhabitants of the planet, as a whole, are seeking the intellectual culmination. But the races who had beginning long aeons ago have passed on through the physical, the intellectual, and the spiritual culminations, to the angelic state. The highest states of expression in individual lives upon the earth are typical of the spiritual state. Prophets and teachers afford lessons concerning the higher culminations; bat the Messiahs are typical of the divinest culminations possible.

Life thus becomes perfected by gradually achieving victory in these three conditions. The most complicated condition is the moral or spiritual; since that state oftenest seems devoid of the qualities most successful in other degrees, and since in a moral direction people often deceive themselves more than others. Hercules may exemplify his strength by conquering hundreds or thousands, or by overturning a temple; the intellectual giant can accomplish the feat of solving mathematical problems in one or five minutes, or hours; or he may grasp the proposition of the creation of worlds and systems: but the man who is governed by moral force has often no way to demonstrate to mankind the truths he espouses, and the truly moral nature must wait for the world to grow to its height. Because of this the world has put its prophets, and teachers, and seers, and Saviors, to death.

These moral culminations are the most subtle, because in the highest realm: they are the lessons of the ages. But in individual lives mistakes are often made: that sentiment is morality; that that which is esthetic is moral; that some particular kind of intellectual or artistic recognition is moral growth. All will do well to analyze most, closely these states of mind in themselves, and they will not fail to discover that there is little to criticise in others when individual states are bo uncertain. Then in tracing these moral culminations, yon have to look not only for long periods of time, but for every; complex state of temptation, struggle and testing, and all that the experience of life affords, in its many intricate and winding labyrinths.: and then, when you learn the final lesson, not to judge, not to condemn, it is after all possible temptation has passed from the individual life into the perfection of thai divine Charity that knows all. It is because charity knows all human conditions that " charity suffereth long and is kind, vannteth not itself, is not puffed up."

Souls approach planets in groups. We will explain the different conditions of expression. Some Souls may be in the beginnings of expression while others are ripening or culminating: this is because all Souls do not approach the planet at the same time. Souls come into expressions in groups, each group beginning expression in a given cycle: those who have precedence here in point of time may have been last in a previous expression in another solar system, bo there is no partiality, that which seems so is in states where seeming partiality is possible: as time, and space, and the material senses; the conception is relative and is only in the limited view of man's mind, Man supposes that the human consciousness is limited by the human senses and faculties; this is true so far as the senses and faculties govern, but the real consciousness is within the Soul. This we will illustrate: supposing the Soul to be represented by the sun which shines through the earthly atmosphere, it may be obscured and clouded by the mists of earth, but still all the light you have is from the sun, without it you would be in total darkness; so with the consciousness: that which you recognize is broken, refracted, and clouded by the earthly state, still yon would have no consciousness were it not for the Soul; and however imperfect that may seem as compared to the Soul itself it is all the light yon have. The light comes from the Soul, the shadow from the earthly state. It is when the clouds of physical conditions are overcome by that light that the power of the Soul is expressed in matter.

Whatever is physical in man is generic, organic, and governed by law; but that law is always subject to the higher power which is from the Soul. So whenever the Soul begins to express itself the law that is above the organic law becomes operative The spiritual teaching of every age has been exactly the same: i. e., that over the physical is the moral power; the physical law is to conquer for self.

the moral power is to conquer self; the spirit is that which conquers the physical life; but until one enters the physical life there is no moral conquest, because there is no shadow.

We would have you remember that these states of expression, or human embodiments as they are termed, are not in themselves entities, but the spirit of each embodiment is a breath from the Soul; and that which the Soul possesses is always its own, so, disencumbered of that which is merely for expression, the Soul still possesses all that it has given to matter, and all that nutter can not express; what that matter is, what the human mind is, what the personal state is accompanying the expression, are of no final importance. Just as adults do not wish to be children, in the sense that they were children before they became men and women, just as that state of childhood is merged into the state of adult existence, so the final expression includes the preceding states and all expressions are merged in the Soul possession. The personality which is so much prised on earth is not lost, (excepting the earthly part is cast aside) but is a portion of the larger individuality, the Soul entity.

Thus in the vast range of experiences yon become aware of what the Soul wishes to accomplish in its expression through matter: facility over the conditions that pertain to matter; the conquest, consciously, over all earthly states, to the end that, as each state ministers to the state that is next lowest, all may minister unto others. So when expression in all embodiments has taken place, when the experience of earth is done, when every vanquishment has been made, the greatest of which is the conquest of self, the Soul, because of having passed through all the culminations of all the embodiments of earth, is again united; and this is an Angel of the earth. The angelic states of earth constitute the harvest of what has been accomplished in the earthly expression, and the angelic ministration is to those who are still in the wilderness of time; these states succeed one another in height until they become allied to Souls in archangelic states who minister to the higher Angels, and who through them approach the earth at unusual times.