THE LIFE ON EARTH
"We wish to give you a few words for
your comfort. We know how doubtful you are at times, and we can scarcely
wonder at it, for we remember our own manner of thought. Yet we did not
have the proof of this life
that you have had. You did not get much help
from church creeds, but strange to
say, we did, and had implicit
confidence in them. But now we see how man-made many of them
were. You need not follow the creeds,
as indeed you know yourself. The example of Christ's life is to us the
perfection of religious teaching. And one following it is safe, safe
from any harm of doctrine."
'I suppose your thoughts do not dwell
much on this life?'
"No, except that it is the birthplace
of the individual soul. In this
respect it becomes of wonderful importance. But the physical part of it
has little enough to do with spirit."
'But the physical was all created by
spirit, was it not"
"Yes, I suppose so. The Great Creator
used material surroundings for the birth of humanity. We can get no
further than this. There is so much, oh, so much, beyond us that we dare
not venture on many positive statements. The one thing that seems to us
positive is the evolution of humanity. Upward, always upward. Why it
started so low down in the earth, we do not comprehend. But the forward
look is fair and enticing beyond expression. This is what makes our life
here so fascinating."
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