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CHAPTER XII
THE HIGHER LIFE
Every spirit desirous of progress and working for universal good receives from higher spirits a
particular mission appropriate to its own degree of advancement.
Some have for their task the meeting of souls coming from earth, and of guiding and aiding them to
rise out of the dense conditions surrounding them. Others are given the work of consoling and instructing the
suffering backward souls. Spirits of chemists, physicians, naturalists, astronomers, pursue their researches,
study the worlds, their surfaces, and their hidden depths, in a manner and with purposes which it is scarcely
possible for the human imagination to conceive; others apply themselves to the arts, and beauty in all forms.
Less advanced spirits assist them in their varied tasks as auxiliaries. A great number of spirits consecrate
themselves to the inhabitants of earth and other planets, stimulating them in their researches, reviving their
failing courage, and guiding the hesitating ones in the way of duty. Those who possess the secrets of curatives
occupy themselves especially with the case of the sick. In Myer's Human Personality, he relates the case of the
wife of a great doctor of European renown, who was completely cured by the spirit of a great physician, after
being given up by her husband. Many similar cases are on record.
Most beautiful of all the missions is that of the spirits of light. They descend from celestial spaces to
bring to humanity the treasures of their science, wisdom, and love. Their task is a constant sacrifice, for
contact with the material world is painful to them; but they face the suffering in order to assist their protégés in
their trials, and to pour into their hearts great and generous intuitions. It is only just to attribute to them those
illuminating rays which radiate the thoughts, and that moral force which radiate the thoughts, and that moral
force which sustains us in the difficulties of life. If we knew what these noble spirits suffered in coming to us,
we should more fully respond to their solicitations, and we would more energetically detach ourselves from all
that is evil, and unite ourselves to them in divine communion.
In hours of torment, it is toward those spirits, toward my guides beloved, that my thoughts and appeals
soar; it is they who have always come with moral support and supreme consolation. I have painfully climbed
the paths of life. My childhood was hard. Early in life I learned manual labor, and a heavy burden was placed
on my shoulders by family duties. Later, in my career of propagandist, my feet were wounded by the stones of
the way I trod, and I was bitten by the serpents of hate and envy. Now the twilight has come! Shadows mount
and encircle me; I feel my strength decline, and my physical organs weaken. But never has the aid of my
invisible friends failed me! Never have I invoked their help in vain. From my earliest childhood their influence
has enveloped me. Often I have felt their soft touches on my brow, like the brushing of angel wings. It is to
their inspiration that I owe my best pages and my most joys and sorrows, and when the tempest howled, I
knew they were near me. Without them, without their assistance, long ago I would have stopped in my journey
and given up my work. But their hands reached out to sustain me, directing me in the difficult path. Often in
the gathering of evening or the silence of night their voices speak to me, and soothe and comfort me. They
sound in my solitude like vague melodies; again they are like soft breezes which pass, bearing murmured
counsels and admonitions upon my weaknesses of character, with wise instructions for their remedy.
Then I forget my human miseries in thinking of the day I shall see these invisible friends, and rejoin
them in the light, if God judges me worthy, with all those I have loved, who from the bosom of the Beyond
have helped me walk life's terrestrial paths. It is to you, O spirit instructors, protecting entities, that my grateful
thoughts mount with their tribute of admiration and love.
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The soul comes from God, and returns to Him after making the immense circle of its destiny. However
low it may descend, sooner or later, by divine attraction, it returns to the Infinite. What does it seek? Always a
more perfect knowledge of the universe, a more complete assimilation of its attributes - beauty, truth, love -
and at the same time a gradual liberation from material servitude and a growing collaboration with eternal
works.
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