AN IMMORTAL BEING

An Immortal being is one in whom the forces of renovation and decay are exactly balanced, and in case there is no expenditure there is no requirement for replenishing. But in case of expenditure there is this necessity, and the principle holds good that spiritual beings have the same relation to the spiritual realm that man has to the physical. This comes with the corollary that, where a spirit uses force, it must supply itself therewith, and in this there is a direct correspondence with the methods by which it is supplied in the physical body.

the long fasting, of weeks and months, of which there are many instances, faintly indicate what the spirit, if freed from the body, is capable of, and the slight nourishment actually required. Yet, in proportion to the work done must be the force imbibed, and here the more material descriptions of spirit-life are true of fruits, etc., and the partaking of the same by spiritual beings.