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The evolution of worlds and souls is regulated by the divine will which penetrates and directs all
nature. But physical evolution is only a preparation for psychic evolution, and the ascension of soul is pursued
by the chain binding the material worlds to the Beyond.
That which dominates the lower regions of life is the incessant combat, the perpetual warfare without
check waged by every being to conquer and obtain a place for himself, almost always to the detriment of
others. This furious strife decimates and destroys the inferior beings in its whirlpool. Our globe is an arena of
incessant battles; nature renews without pause its army of combatants. In its prodigious fecundity it creates
new beings when again death presses into their ranks. This strife, frightful at first sight, is yet necessary to the
development of the principles of life. It will last until the higher day when a ray of higher intelligence comes to
illuminate the sleeping consciousness. By this struggle the will is developed. From pain is born understanding;
material evolution and the destruction of organisms is but a transitory phase. It represents the primary epoch of
life. The imperishable realities are in the spirit; they only survive the conflict. All these ephemeral envelopes
are but the vestments given the permanent etheric form for temporary use. It clothes itself in these costumes to
play the numerous acts of the drama of evolution upon the grand stage of the universe. Emerging degree by
degree from the abyss of life to become spirit, to gain its future, hour after hour to release itself a little more
day by day from the grasp of the passions, to free itself from suggestions of egotism and idleness and
discouragement, and to aid all the human race toward a more elevated estate - behold the role assigned to each
soul, and, in order to fill this role, it has all the succession of innumerable existences which are evolved upon
the magnificent ladder of the worlds.
All which comes from matter is unstable - all vanishes, all disintegrates. The mountains sink little by
little under the action of the elements; the great cities fall in ruins; the stars fade out and die; the soul alone
soars imperishable through eternal duration. We are limited and restrained by terrestrial bonds, but when
though detaches itself from changing forms and embraces the extent of time, it sees the past and the future
unite and live in the present. The chant of glory, the hymn of infinite life, fills all space. It rises from the
bosom of ruins and tombs, and upon the debris of civilizations grow new flowers, and union is made between
the invisible and visible, between the humanity of earth and that which peoples space. Their voices call and
respond, and these murmurs, still vague and confused for many, become for us the message, the vibrant word
which confirms the communion of universal love.
Such is the complex character of the human being - spirit, force, and matter, in which are contained all
the powers of the universe. All that is in us is in the universe; all that is in the universe is in us. By his etheric
and his material bodies, man finds himself united to all the worlds invisible and divine. We are made of light
and shadow. What is in us is in every other being. Each soul is a projection from the eternal center. It is that
which consecrates and assures the fraternity of man. We have in us the instincts of the beast, and we have, too,
the chrysalis of the angel - of the radiant and pure being that we can become by moral aspirations of the heart
and the constant sacrifice of self. We touch depths of abysses with our fee, and with our brows the high
altitudes of Heaven, the glorious empire of the spirit. When we listen to what is passing in the depths of our
being, we hear the rumbling of hidden and tumultuous waters, the ebb and flow of the stormy sea of
personality, with its waves of anger, egotism, and pride.
These are the voices of matter, the appeals of the lower regions, which still influence out actions. But
this influence we can dominate by will; upon these voices we can impose silence; and when the murmur of the
passions is quieted, then the powerful voice of the Infinite Spirit is heard, the canticle of Life Eternal, whose
harmony fills immensity. The more the mind is elevated and purified, the more accessible it becomes to the
vibrations and the voices from on high. The divine mind which animates the universe acts upon all minds. It
seeks to penetrate, clarify, and fertilize them. Too gross still, the greater number remains closed and dark.
They cannot feel the influence nor hear the appeal. Often the divine mind surrounds them, envelops them,
seeks to reach the depths of their natures and to answer them spiritually. But the human soul is free, and may
resist this effort; others feel its influence only in solemn moments of their lives, during great trials, or in
desolate hours when they need help from on high. To live the higher life, where these influences reach us, we
must have known sorrow, practiced abnegation, renounced material joys, and lighted in ourselves this flame,
this interior illumination which is never extinguished, and of which the bright gleams in this world are but the
reflections from Beyond.
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