What is the desire of ages?

Have you, in your long experience of life in the spirit, ever met with an individual who had a remembrance of passing through more than one existence on earth?

No—no. 

If such were the case, I could not say I was myself. 

I believe I was never on earth until I was sent direct from the great and mighty source of all spirit. 

Some men in the spirit-world go back to earth and teach the old doctrines they held in mortal life and which they still tenaciously hold. 

Let such men but come to stand on the same platform that I and others occupy—become frequenters of the Great Temple, and they will soon learn to think otherwise. 

Many of us, indeed, return to earth on errands of love and truth, but not in the body. 

I, for my part, have no such desire unless it were permitted me to do so, and then it would be to revolutionise the world

To bring on the glorious golden age, so long desired by all the good and true in past ages. 

But here, and as I am, I have work to do—

A glorious work it is—

The rescue of the benighted ones who in multitudes wander amid the shadows of the spirit-world.

—Hafed, Prince of Persia