These lessons are published, primarily, as a book of reference for those who have been members of the classes receiving them. The essential Teachings herein contained, have been given at various times and places through this same medium for the past twenty years, but always heretofore verbally, in private or semi-private classes, because it was necessary that those listening to them should continue through the entire course. A great demand, however, has recently sprung up in the public mind for some concise presentation of the Teachings as herein expressed. This volume is a careful compilation from verbatim reports of several courses of lessons, each containing the essential fundamental bases of the Teachings, but varying in manner of presentation and illustration.

It has been thought best by the Intelligences who have given them, to preserve the form in which the Teachings were always given, i. e., that of lessons, to enable those who read to become en rapport with the Guides in somewhat the same manner as though they had listened to the utterances as pupils. There must always remain, however, a sense of loss; a missing of the revealed presence, through the medium, of the Controlling Guides, made more palpable by the Invocations that preceded the lessons, and the Benedictions at the close; and most palpable by the pervading devotion and exaltation of all present.

Yet, happily, those who read with the "Spirit and the Understanding," shall feel themselves none the less near to the Guides, and ever more near unto the Divine. - (Pub.)

The General Subject Of The Lessons Is

The Soul; its nature, relations, and expressions in material FORM

The First lesson will be:

The Soul; its relation to God. The Second lesson will be:

The Dual Nature of the Soul. The Third lesson will be:

The Expression or the SOUL. in Human Embodiments, and its relation to other Souls.

The Fourth lesson will be a continuation of the third, as we find that subject most attractive to human minds that beats directly upon • existence and its relations. The Fifth lesson will be:

The reunited Soul; including Perfected Souls, Parental Souls, and Angels. The Sixth lesson will be:

Angels, Archangels, and Messiahs; including life on other planets.