What is unique about human beings?

Everything—every phase—has a reason and purpose and its place in the great scheme of the Creator.

As Spirit Claude makes perfectly clear—

Do you want to know how you differ from animals, as the same life—or Godforce—animates you in common with them and all creation? 

Well, I told you before that all force and power emanates from God, for He is All Power—He is also All Mind and All Love as well. 

The life-force that is throbbing through the Universe, manifesting itself in the existence of everything you see is the cause of your physical body, also, but your spirit, which is your prerogative and peculiar to you comes from God direct in the form of the "drop" I told you of before, and which forever remains connected with its Source. 

This "drop," the divine spark is a little bit of the God-Mind, and it is this fact that makes the difference between even the lowest man and the noblest beast.

You have to develop that spark by living up to the best and highest in yourself. 

You have to grow in regular stages through the physical and mental to the spiritual, and to be well balanced you have to conquer each stage before you go on your road of evolution. 

Sometimes, a spirit-life in its anxiety to develop scorns the physical, and despising its body becomes eccentric—he neglects to cut his hair—or walks sideways like a crab—or develops other tiresome habits through not having the correct poise. 

This brings its own nemesis, for the neglected body reacts on the brain and it becomes thoroughly unbalanced.

Sometimes, you come across these (wo)men when reincarnated, and they seem to be out of place—their lives are prosaic in the extreme and their ostensible interests bounded by narrow limits, and yet you know and feel somehow that they are fitted for other, different and higher things. 

Though you cannot always judge by a (wo)man's social position—or the nature of his work—it is, after all, its manner and the use he makes of his opportunities that constitutes the real difference.

A man may be a village carpenter, and by his wholesome, honest and kindly influence appreciably benefit the small community in which he lives, while another man, say a writer, for instance, may use his greater opportunity to decry what is good and disseminate what is unclean, dishonest and cynical, caring nothing for the effect on other people because he can by playing up to the worst in human nature earn more money and gain cheap notoriety.

In the spirit world things are readjusted. 

This place might be called the "Land of Fulfilled Ideals," for here, if a man has honestly done his best on earth, he can realise his dreams, which may have been quite out of his reach before. 

I will give you an instance in my own experience. 

I came across a man one day who was standing outside a beautiful building—he was regarding it with love in his eyes. 

I was so interested I stopped to speak to him. 

He told me he was one of the architects who had designed it, and that it meant a great deal to him. 

On earth, from his early childhood he had wished to become an architect, and spent hours drawing designs and all his spare time in going to see, admire and study various buildings. 

His father was a poor man, a jobbing tailor, and he did his best for his son, but his health failed and the lad had to join him in the little shop, where by slow degrees his ambition faded. 

Eventually he married, had children and settled down to his birthright of drudgery, indifferent health and poverty, but the love of design—of fine curves and imposing lines—remained, and on his scant holidays he still went to look at the buildings he loved. 

Well, he lived his life honestly, bearing his heavy burden bravely, and then came the inevitable end, which proved to him—as to most of us—but the door leading to the land of a fuller and more beautiful life, for his dreams have at last come true and his ideals have materialised.