Truly, the kingdom of heaven is within you―
You never hope or expect to gain it without the circle of your own individual spirit.
He who is miserable and complaining on earth will be miserable and complaining in his next stage of existence until he has developed a self-poise that is self-sustaining.
And he can never progress beyond that next stage, nor into all of its best conditions, preparatory for the new evolutions of spirit life until he has developed such a self-poise.
The successive developments being now purely spiritual, the evolutions depend upon his mental or soul-health, as on earth it is determined by the condition of his body.
Labour, then, in your earth-life for that mental poise of peaceful equanimity and loving charity and helpfulness toward others that may give you even on earth that state of heavenly kingdom that will afterward elevate you to a more rapid evolution onward through the spheres.
M. Karl, Leaflets of Truth or Light from the Shadow Land, S. R. Miner, Chicago, 1886
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