What is the progress of the soul?

There are Heavens―

There are spheres of unimaginable joy and beauty beyond―building up, and extending out of every state of development right on to the spiritual worlds of divine thought. 

Such is the progress of the soul towards these spheres of perfection―

You have all Eternity in which to journey onwards and 'upwards.'

There are also Hells, though certainly differing from the physical hells and everlasting fiery torments of our warped imagination. 

There are hells of the spirit and the mind―confining states of misery―dark, depressing, and as real as the tortured consciousness of the dweller therein makes them. 

Yet these hells are not eternal. 

Spirit-lives in these mental torments need stay there no longer than their desires keep them. 

Spirit-lives are free to resist the hatreds―cruelties―lusts―of their lower nature, which they have retained from their earth-lives, and which are keeping them in dark dungeons amid like-minded inhabitants. 

Spirit-lives can always choose to follow the Light of Love, Forgiveness and Harmony, and always there are souls ready to help―to guide―to comfort―to assist.

No soul is ever left comfortless unless he wishes it.