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Admitting that the physical organic life is imparted by the parents, the soul, being that electric magnetic power which adheres to the physical body needs the assistance of the spirit to cultivate and strengthen it. Authors have frequently united soul and spirit as one principle. They are identically separate as long as they inhabit this earthly body. The soul performs the animal functions to the physical body, which is material organic life. The spirit being the essence divine, emanating from the creative power, has its origin beyond the vacuum of space in the interior heavens, unapproachable by spirit perceptions, unless thoroughly individualised and incomprehensible by man; that great creative power, in whose potency are consistent the virtues of love, purity and power. That essence so potent and divine throws off expressions or thoughts, thoughts which are expressions intellectual. Each thought or each expression contains a life-germ which is spirit. These life-germs incarnated in material bodies constitute the present human race. Now, in the beginning, these expressions are very faint and weak, scarcely perceptible after becoming enveloped in this crude material body, which vegetates and perishes the same as animal and vegetable matter. The spirit requires external conditions to assist it in unfolding the spiritual nature of itself. The grosser the body, the weaker the spirit manifests itself. Consequently, it is essential that you should cultivate the physical body, spiritualising it by strict attention to diet and habits and modes of life; never forgetting that the soul takes from the material body certain elements which add strength and purity to the spiritual body and are essential to its development. For the soul lies folded within the physical body as the butterfly within the chrysalis. If the physical body is carefully nourished the spiritual faculties can work through its organs, assisting its development through its experiences and various unfoldments which are essential to its strength and development. When the spirit attains its development through experience, it unfolds the intellect which the spirit requires so that it may attain its individuality. Experience in this material life aids the spirit to progress by being informed of natural facts and unfolding its identity to the great God principle. Very few minds have a conception of how small the first expression thrown off from Deity is. It is but a thought devoid of shape or form, an intellectual thought.

B. H. In Spirit