Do the lower animals exist in spirit?

Do the lower animals exist in spirit?

They do. 

Wherever there is life, there is spirit, and spirit never dies. 

The smallest speck—unseen by the naked eye—having life is precious to the Great Creator—with—or without brain—or nerve—it is all the same. 

Take a microscope. 

Examine one of these tiny animals, and you will find in it the first and simplest developments of organic life, then go upwards in the scale of animal creation, and step-by-step, as you ascend in your examination, you will see a uniform progress in development, until coming to man, you find combined in him all that you have seen in the animals below him. 

You will see a part of man in the beaver who builds a house, and in the little mole who tunnels for himself a road beneath the pathway on which you walk. 

These features—a thousand more—you will find in man. 

There is nothing in him, which you will not find in the creation around him—

He is a world in himself.

Hafed—Prince of Persia His Experiences in Earth-life and Spirit-life