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Title: The Ascent of the Soul

Author: Amory H. Bradford

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THE ASCENT OF THE SOUL

BY

AMORY H. BRADFORD, D.D.

AUTHOR OF
"SPIRIT AND LIFE,"
"HEREDITY AND CHRISTIAN PROBLEMS"
"THE GROWING REVELATION,"
"THE AGE OF FAITH"
"MESSAGES OF THE MASTERS," ETC.

NEW YORK
THE OUTLOOK COMPANY
1902

Copyright, 1902
By The Outlook Company

Mount Pleasant Press
J. Horace McFarland Company
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

To The Memory of My Father

_That each, who seems a separate whole,
Should move his rounds, and fusing all
The skirts of self again, should fall
Remerging in the general Soul,

Is faith as vague as all unsweet:
Eternal form shall still divide
The eternal soul from all beside;
And I shall know him when we meet._

--_In Memoriam._

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of the following chapters will be evident to all who may
care to peruse them. I have endeavored simply to read the soul of man
with something of the care that one reads a book containing a message
which he believes to be of importance.

While one class of scientists are seeking to explore the physical
universe, another class, with equal care, are studying the human spirit,
and, already, startling discoveries have been made. My work is in no
sense new in kind, but it is such as one whose whole time is devoted to
dealing with the inner life would naturally give to such a subject. It
hardly needs to be added that my method is practical rather than
speculative. I am more interested in helping the ascent of the soul
than in accounting for its origin. In carrying out my plan I have
considered the following subjects: The nature and genesis of the soul,
its awakening to a consciousness of responsibility, the steps