Gathering all together in one embrace; the whole race of man, one undivided family.  Its divine “Trinity” is Evolution, Progress, Liberty.  Many minds reject this assumption of facts, because of the necessity which a recognition of them would involve for a readjustment of mental processes, and religious beliefs affecting their daily experience.

HEAVEN.

Millions of enfranchised souls pass from earth life and find the spirit world—­the “Summerland”—­a Heaven, and stay therein for vast lengths of time.  The change from this life of toil, and misery to an existence of rest from all pain and sorrow of earthly existence is really Heaven enough for the average human mind.  A place of beautiful surroundings, where everything necessary for their comfort is furnished them, without money and without price and, best of all, where they no longer fear being grabbed up and punished by the devil for their sins of ignorance committed when in the body.  It is not possible for us, plunged, as we all are, into the vortex of this difficult existence, to realize what all this means to the world-weary.  If one shall halt by the way, or fall aside from the great unending procession nothing stops.  The terrible, tumultuous waves of humanity roll on, and the lost are not missed or mourned for, save by the few that were responsible for their coming, or for the awful lack of help and tendance that made them failures in the battle of life.

The great army of the commonplace, the neither positively good nor the very bad, is the largest class of all humanity.  The most pestiferous and difficult to adjust to the law of progress and advancement.  Hold one of them out of hell by the hair of the head, and when he is let go he only drops further in, and nothing teaches him but the “slings and arrows” of misfortune, and every dreadful experience that can be handed out to him.  Much of this almost universally deplorable condition—­it may be the whole of it—­has been induced by false, unreasonable religious teachings.  The human mind needs every inducement to effort to overcome its natural inertia instead of being put to sleep by promises of being exempt from all responsibility connected with its final redemption.

NATURE SPIRITS.

The “dwellers at the threshold” are the individualized entities of the elements of nature.  Air, fire, earth depths, and seas.  These belong to the domain of nature, pure and simple, and are met and controlled by the affinities of the chemicals of the material, physical organization of the individual.  The most potent of these leading in the degree of material success to be achieved in dealing with material life.