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As spirit per se, has no entity, and only evolves individuality through its relationship with matter, and has no other conscious expression, the so-long-talked-of “fall of man” was not a fall downward, but a process upward, necessary to his being, to his existence as man.

UNFOLDMENT.

The persistence of the human soul after physical death proves only that it is a candidate for immortality.  The race is just begun.  The path that leads onward to the eternal heights is so long, so beset with difficulties, with pains and penalties, losses and crosses, and all the paraphernalia of evolution and growth that the stoutest heart, the strongest will would fail to respond to the call to “come up higher,” were one to at once become aware of what inevitably lay before him.  When any individual soul has dwelt long enough in the spirit realm to begin to feel the unrest of the law of eternal progress, he senses the law of reincarnation, and his earthly home draws him by attraction.  He is preferred the cup of “renunciation,” and forgetfulness, and is shown the way to his next embodiment.

INVENTIONS.

The inspired thinker sends out a thought to the world, it is taken up and passed through other brains, it becomes distorted or is recognized by them in its integrity according to the caliber of mind, or the idiosyncrasies of the one representing it.  A thought or idea, once given to the world, becomes common property.  It is not possible to put on mortgages or limit the use that may be made of it, or how it may be made to bring in returns to commercially-inspired minds.  A woman devised a style of dress which she wore for her comfort at her own convenience.  Another woman gave exactly the same pattern and details to the public, and is now living in elegance on the income derived from another.  A man—­a worker—­invents an improvement, or a better method of doing things.  The firm adopts and makes money out of it, and its originator is forgotten.  There are, however, clever people who know how to protect their inspirations, and get the benefit themselves.  The greatest disappointment comes to the originator when the thought is intended to indicate and outline action.  So few people can achieve the same point of view, so few can be depended upon for united, harmonious action that the best organizing power is at times fetched up with a “round turn,” and the progress of the good work intended becomes greatly impeded, or virtually lost.

DIVINE HEALING.

There are today many cults professing to have healing powers; but whether they are named “Christian,” or “Mental,” or “Spiritual,” or “Divine Science,” or whether the place of healing be in some shrine sacred to an accredited saint, or only in the presence of the patient receiving the benediction; they all operate under the same law; there is no other.