The torturing remorse of the slowly awakening consciousness of those who have lived selfishly and viciously is far beyond the pains of the burning, material fires.  Every human being that has in it a living germ of spirit shall be liberated and helped toward the light, not by any so-called personal redeemer—­that is not possible—­but by the power of its own aspiring soul, and even moderately decent folk shall come to enjoy all that they have imagined and longed for, and all great souls shall find the peace they have dreamed of.  All souls everywhere in the spirit world will have all they have truly earned in their earthly lives.

While we stay here we are hardly protected from the envious thoughts and deeds of evilly disposed and vengeful people.  Once safely landed in that superior and satisfactory realm no such invasions can reach us ever.

THE SOUL.

The soul is the vehicle of the spirit.  It passes from the earthly life along with physical death, its uses ended.  Developed by earthly experiences, it grows and has the power to detach itself and represent the personality of the individual to which it belongs, but only while on earth; it is not employed thus after the spirit leaves the body.  It is the “similacrum” of the body, and is often mistaken for the immortal part, the enfranchised spirit.  But the spirit is generally unawakened and can only grow with the pabulum of spiritual influence, in harmony with spiritual law.  It is this that complicates this life and retards the at-one-ment of the greatest of all trinities; body, soul and spirit, the natural three in one.  The soul element is the bequest of the parents—­especially of the mother—­to their progeny.  If the conditions are at all in harmony with divine law, the mother pours out all her soul’s influence upon the forming body of her child in the divinest love ever manifested on earth.  Its birth and manifestation are of the immortal spirit, and create in her offspring some consciousness of, some desire for immortality.  Of all earthly phenomena this of motherhood is the most marvelous, and naturally the least understood, and the most slightingly regarded.  Its universality reduces it to the commonplace.

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The conventionalities are not intended to keep people apart who really “belong” together and who ought to meet, but to protect those who wish to live good lives from the invasions of envious curiosity.

WOMAN.

Woman is the constructive, the upbuilding force.  With what patient endurance she awaits the slow growth of the bodies she shelters beneath her heart that are to hold souls here and give them human instruments with which to do their work on the material plane of life.  In this sphere, the destructive jealousy of man of the power of woman does not avail, her kingdom is everlasting.  Crushed and enslaved she is, and always has been, but only to gather to herself greater power.  She is the natural lawgiver, the supreme ruler.  Man, the intimate holder of the material forces, dreads the power of woman, and fears her invasions of his long-established rights in his chosen domain.