Among these, too, have also been found the bones of huge human-like beings whose decadent progeny are still alive in limited number.

The gorilla is still the terror of some of the wild places of the earth; as he booms his way through the impenetrable forests, he sends forth his note of warning, beating his great hairy breast, and all living things flee before him.  Fancy what the awful first man—­his progenitor—­must have been!  Science has never yet been able to discover the probable length of time it required for this crude age to endure in order to lay the foundation of the world; for time was not, and existence was recorded only by ages and aeons.  But seven times their infernal progeny were nearly all swept off the planet by awful cataclysms and the whole affair had to be begun over again.

IMPERFECTIONS REVEALED.

The soul digs deep into the age-long deposits of knowledge, the results of countless experiences, and brings up the Real.

This has to be, the most successful egotist, the most deluded hypocrite must inevitably meet up with himself some day and begin to know the truth versus make-believe.

All souls are so veiled in the flesh, and held by the crowding necessities of their lives, that it is only on rare, unexpected occasions that the individual soul can throw down the barriers and show of what it is capable.

WORLD ORIGIN.

To be able to understand, even to our limited degree, something of our origin, and the purpose of our existence is most comforting and sustaining.  In the beginning, the Creator sent to this planet a given number of beings intended for the exemplification of the law of evolution and soul growth.  In the everlasting rounds of human life, no new souls are being created and sent here to work out their salvation through their experiences incident to the life of this young planet, earth.  What appears to our limited perception to be the beginning of new lives is so only in relation to their present embodiment.  All new souls now being born here are but returning from some other phase of existence.  The whole human race is one family.  Bound to the wheel of life, every individual soul must pass through all of the varied experiences that are set for its evolution.  What they are not today, they have been, or must become.  But not all people march over just the same highway to reach the soul’s status.  Details of experience do not count.  It is the lesson learned, and practically applied that forwards the unfoldment of the individual in a comprehension and understanding of God’s eternal truth.  Only results in all things, temporal and spiritual, attest the unfoldment and growth of each and every soul.

It is only when man has evolved to the point of being more than a man, “a little lower than the angels,” that the higher spheres of activity are necessary for his further progress.  To expect to develop in the worlds of finer substance than that of earth before he has learned all that earthly experiences can teach him, is like “placing a child in the higher classes of a school before he has mastered the lessons of the lower.”