This earth, our birth place, our kindergarten school, and the university from which we must each graduate, having once received us, can never let go its hold upon one of its children until this final result is attained.  Over and over again, the lives of all who belong to this planet pass into the invisible realms of Nature to rest from the sordid and wearisome experiences of material life, and again return to seek out further growth and understanding, until the final culmination is reached.  The soul is hurried on through its experiences of departing and returning, until earth has no further lesson, no further service to perform.  Then, indeed, it may graduate and ascend to its place among the gods.

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Newly-embodied souls might be considered as raw material flung out upon the sea of life to be ground and polished by experience, and grown into a semblance of perfection befitting the “children of God.”

PROCESSES OF REINCARNATION.

Spirit has no consciousness on the material plane, except through the vibratory action of the human brain, the mortal mind.  The individual ego gathers up from each incarnation—­if it is true to itself—­some knowledge, some wisdom, and stores it away in the spirit brain.  Its experiences cover every opportunity to understand, from lowest to highest, all that any single one in the whole human family has ever known.  This is the justice of the great Creator.  The king today has been in some previous life an oppressed laborer, and if he could for a moment lay aside his egotistical pride of power and place, he might remember and know how ’tis himself.  Men and women of thought, of great character have returned from each separate incarnation, for rest from the destroyed physical, loaded like the honey bee with the results of labor and effort.

When the practised soul familiarizes itself with the newly-born, fleshly tabernacle it is to inhabit and use for a long or a short time, it broods over the unconscious being, and at the first indication of intelligence, pours into the human brain-cells its own spiritual life, and what thus comes in is there to stay.  The growth of the child, the development of the individual, depends mostly upon the capacity of the brain to receive and adjust this knowledge and inspiration to its use upon the earth plane upon which it is to live, the place, the environment in which it is to learn its next needed lessons.

The soul, the ego, thus placed, is bound and shackled by its human heredity.  This is inevitable, it has no choice as to its lineaments or figure.  It in a sense bears the “sins of the world”; it can in no way separate itself, really, from the whole human family.