You have developed the artistic palace of the present day.

The plan of creation, extending over the spiritual and material world, is the adaptation of form to uses—

And the evolution of matter and spirit from a lower to a higher plane of existence.

In the early geological periods, only the grossest forms of life could exist or contend with the crude elements and disturbed state of earth and atmosphere.  

Thousands and thousands of years elapsed before man appeared on earth—

Not then, the perfect Adam, but a being a little higher than the animals and lower than the angels.  

A creature, resembling the wild savage—

There, first, you find the spiritual-nature shooting out—

A phosphorescent-like emanation, living a semi-sentient life between two worlds, the spiritual and material.  

When separated from the body, this fine network of impalpable spiritual existence becomes compact, and a solid body, in the atmosphere of the spirit-world, even as certain gases that are invisible to the eye become, under peculiar circumstances, solid and ponderous bodies.

The soul, being a progressive development of every created sentient form, is admirably adapted for navigation through space.  

Its power is analogous to light to penetrate space, and, in the rapidity of its motion, it speeds, like a bird seeking its nest, to its immortal home.  

This—

If its spiritual instincts are developed—

If not—

Guided by its love and will, it hovers over its useless body, or the former place of its habitation.  

To its surprise, it finds itself, with a form adapted to diving into the depths of the sea, of ascending into the air, of penetrating matter, and traversing the earth—

Almost unlimited in its powers—

But dependent on its intellectual development, and the expansion of its moral faculties, for an intelligent use of its new organism.

The page of natural history will teach the investigator that a lower form must finally ultimate into a higher one.

You, having a spiritual nature, which is constantly reaching out into the invisible world, must find ultimately what you seek. 

The more your wants increase, the more your power to gratify them increases.  

As you rise, in the scale of creation, you are constantly changing your position and adapting yourself to new conditions—

From the wigwam—the hut—the tent of your ancestors—

You have developed the artistic palace of the present day.

When this world ceases to be useful to you, you rise to another better adapted to your growth.  

When you become too ethereal to exist on the planet earth, you rise to a more spiritual one.

—Spirit Charles Darwin