soul falls into sin, the body is in torment!

When we find truth, constancy, fidelity, and love, we are happy; but if we
meet with lying, faithlessness, and deceit, we are miserable.

These are all things pertaining to the soul, and are not bodily ills.
Thus, it is apparent that the soul, even as the body, has its own
individuality. But if the body undergoes a change, the spirit need not be
touched. When you break a glass on which the sun shines, the glass is
broken, but the sun still shines! If a cage containing a bird is
destroyed, the bird is unharmed! If a lamp is broken, the flame can still
burn bright!

The same thing applies to the spirit of man. Though death destroy his
body, it has no power over his spirit--this is eternal, everlasting, both
birthless and deathless.

As to the soul of man after death, it remains in the degree of purity to
which it has evolved during life in the physical body, and after it is
freed from the body it remains plunged in the ocean of God's Mercy.

From the moment the soul leaves the body and arrives in the Heavenly
World, its evolution is spiritual, and that evolution is: The approaching
unto God.

In the physical creation, evolution is from one degree of perfection to
another. The mineral passes with its mineral perfections to the vegetable;
the vegetable, with its perfections, passes to the animal world, and so on
to that of humanity. This world is full of seeming contradictions; in each
of these kingdoms (mineral, vegetable and animal) life exists in its
degree; though when compared to the life in a man, the earth appears to be
dead, yet she, too, lives and has a life of her own. In this world things
live and die, and live again in other forms of life, but in the world of
the spirit it is quite otherwise.

The soul does not evolve from degree to degree as a law--it only evolves
nearer to God, by the Mercy and Bounty of God.

It is my earnest prayer that we may all be in the Kingdom of God, and near
Him.

THE SPIRITUAL MEETINGS IN PARIS

November 4th

All over Europe today one hears of meetings and assemblies, and societies
of all kinds are formed. There are those interested in commerce, science,
and politics, and many others. All these are for material service, their
desire being for the progress and enlightenment of the world of matter.
But rarely does a breath from the spirit world breathe upon them. They
seem unconscious of the Divine Voice, careless conc