soul's purposes for a time, and when it can no longer do so, we die because it is the nature of matter to decay and change; but soul being of God, the Honover, Aum, the Sacred, the Holy, the Great Mystery, lives on forever and for evermore; and in all human probability unfolds continually and incessantly.
Could you procure a microscopic view of a monad, you would behold a perfect resemblance of a human being of infinitesimal proportions, standing at full length, but with closed eyes, in the midst of a surrounding and protecting sphere, formed of something a myriad degrees more sublimated than the rarest imponderable known to science.[1]
Soul has two methods of increase: first, it feeds on notions, thoughts, sensations, ideas, emotions, hopes, joys, fears and anticipations, based on that which is external of itself. The experiences and discipline thus derived, constitute Progression. On the other hand, it creates, moulds, and fashions things from itself, and by the exercise, grows intuitive and strong. This is Development, or Unfolding. Souls are all of the same
- ↑ "Over the graves of the newly dead, may, on dark nights, be seen hovering the forms of those within them—strange, ghastly, ghostly forms they are. The exhalations of the decaying bodies assume the shape and proportions of the living being, and affright the passers by—Jung Stilling.
"Burn a rose, and then mix its asheswith water in a bowl; set it away in a still place, and in a few days a thin, glairy scum will rise upon the surface, and arrange itself in the exact form of the original flower."—Report of Acad. Sci., Paris, 1834.
The acorn, split in two and exposed to a strong light and high magnifying power, will disclose the perfect outlines of an oak tree. The germ of all things contains the likeness of what hereafter they are destined to become, and so also does the germ or monad of a man. Pub.
