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Multiple and sorrowful planetary existences prepare us for this life. It is thus the mystery of the
‘psyche’ is unveiled to the human soul, shut for a time in flesh, and mounting toward its origin through
millions of deaths and births. The task is rude, the steps steep to climb, the frightful spiral seems to wind
without apparent end; but our forces are unlimited, for we can renew them by the will and by universal
communion. And we are not alone upon this great journey! Not only do we sooner or later rejoin our
companions and our friends of past lives, those who shared our joys and troubles, but other great celestial
spirits come to our side in difficult places. Those who have gone ahead of us on the sacred way, not losing
sight of our needs, reach out their helping hands to aid us over the tormenting spots in our route. Slowly, sadly
we ripen for higher and higher tasks. We participate more completely in the execution of a plan whose majesty
moves to admiration those who read between the imposing lines. In the measure that ascension is accentuated,
greater revelations are made to us - new forms of activity given to us, new psychic senses are born in us, and
new sublimities appear to us. The etheric universe opens more widely to our flights and becomes a source of
inexhaustible joy.
Then comes the hour when after its peregrinations through those worlds, the soul in the regions of
higher life contemplates its ensemble of existences, its long cortège of sufferings subdued. At last it
comprehends! Those sufferings were the price of happiness; those trials gave birth to its joys, and then its role
changes. The protégé becomes the protector. It envelops with its influence those who are still striving with
earth difficulties; it whispers to them and counsels them by its own experience, and sustains them through the
rude paths they are treading. Does the soul ever arrive at the end of its voyage? As it advances along the
prepared way it sees ever opening before it new fields of study and discovery. Like the currents of a stream,
the waves of a supreme knowledge descend toward it in a tide of increasing power. It penetrates the holy
harmony of things, and understands that no discordance, no contradiction exists in the universe, that
everywhere reigns order, wisdom, and foresight, and its confidence, its enthusiasm augments. With a greater
love for the Supreme Power, it enjoys with intensity the felicity of well being.
From that moment the soul is intimately associated with the divine work; it is ripe to fulfill the
missions devolving on higher souls in this hierarchy of spirits, who under various titles govern and animate the
cosmos. For these souls are the agents of God in the eternal work of creation. They are the marvelous books
upon which God has written His most beautiful mysteries. They are like streams which bring to the earth from
space forces and radiations from the Infinite Soul. God knows all these souls which He has formed with His
thought and His love. He knows what great part each one will take for the realization of His wishes. At first,
He lets them slowly pursue the sinuous path, mount the somber defiles of terrestrial lives, accumulate little by
little in themselves the treasures of virtue and patience, and lean what is to be acquired in the school of
suffering. When one day, softened under the rains of adversity, ripened by the rays of the divine sun, they
come out of the shadow of time, of obscurity, of lives innumerable, and their faculties blossom in glorious
sheaves, and their works reveal the reflection of divine genius.
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