What is the spirit of perfection?

The matter composing our earth was very low at first and was developed by degrees. 

The gaseous ocean of the beginning was the necessary germ, combining all the elements in its vapory mass. The igneous nucleus or centre was necessary to give the earth its globular form, its diurnal and yearly revolutions, and prepare it for the next stage, when the water condensed and formed the thermal oceans, which boiled as cauldrons on a heated furnace. 

The coal era cleared the atmosphere from the superabundant carbon and fitted it for the support of life. 

The saurian types of animals were the representation of the peculiar combinations and conditions existing when they flourished. 

The chalk formation freed the ocean from surplus lime―so of all ages. 

Man came last because in him are combined the essences of the material world, of zoophyte, fish, lizard, reptile, bird and beast.

Man's brain contains finer and higher material than the brute's, which raises him above the instinct of animals. 

In him, Nature has added one more link to the endless chain―has formed the keystone of the arch of mind, which prevents the whole from falling, and She has thus given him an eternity beyond the grave―that his mind, having a thirst for unbounded wisdom, may have an eternity of time to seek it in.

The perfected spirit is the end of creative Nature.

For it, the gaseous ocean of the beginning existed―For it, the igneous ball rolled through the vast space for ages―For it, one form of life after another came, type following type, degree succeeding degree in endless mutations.

Man is the bud, the spirit, the unfolding flower of Nature, which will go on unfolding its powers until it reaches the Throne of the Omnipotent Mind.

Scenes in the Spirit World―or Life in the Spheres