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28 February 2024

Prove it for yourself


As St Paul says―

Prove all things

Hold fast that which is good. 


In other words, you are not like a wandering atom in space with no guidance, no power of grasping and understanding truth, but you have been put here with all the powers of the universe touching you and manifesting through you. 

You have been created with a perfect receiving apparatus by which you can not only receive the great radio-dispensing of divine wisdom and truth, but can separate it, and judge it. 


For you have had written for you, in an unmistakable way, the great book of nature. 

You are told from the beginning that only those things you see worked out in nature are, and can be truths, and that you are the microcosm of the macrocosm, and hence must follow the same laws. 

And if you do, you will find the same satisfactory results. 

Therefore, nothing is true to you―be it ever so true to othersunless you can prove it for yourself

Unless you can see its corresponding accomplishment worked out for you in the cosmos, and can prove it from the laws of nature or your own experience.

Harriette Augusta Curtiss and F. Homer Curtiss, Letters from the Teacher, Volume II, Universal Religious Fellowship Inc.,  Curtiss Book Company, California, 1924

19 January 2024

Live and move in the Light.

I will myself into Light―asking that Light may be afforded me―that my soul and spirit may become as one infused Light―that I may live and move in the Light, which is the Creative Will.

One can only realise one’s errors and go forward into greater understanding.

―Spirit Frances Banks

17 January 2024

The Kingdom of Heaven is not an unpractical dream.


How do those fare, in the next life, who possess some of the spiritual qualities necessary, for the spirit's progress to higher spheres than the earth plane? 

Where a person lives a life of self-denial on earth, he is pretty certain to be well rewarded in the next life. 

Self-denial, or the suppression of self, is the great thing needed to secure your future happiness. 

Self-denial is not the self-denial of earthly enjoyments, but the sharing of your own enjoyments with others. In short, to find your own happiness in the pleasure of seeing others happy. 


You have a duty to yourself, as well as to others, and the correct performance of your duty involves the correct performance of your duty to yourself because you cannot be happy in doing good unless you are yourself in a good state of health of mind and body. 

You see, therefore, that doing good involves no self-sacrifice, but the highest self-seeking—the attainment of your own spiritual good and the bestowal of that good upon others. 

In fact, you cannot be happy if you keep a good to yourself; you must learn to conquer self sufficiently to sacrifice something for others. 

The sacrifice is, however, not really such at all—it is only a distorted mental vision that makes it appear so. 


If you are going to do what is right—in other words, what you feel qualified for—it cannot 
involve anything irksome when once you get fairly into it. 

You may lead a true life, without any great hardships to encounter, if you will only take the right road to find your peculiar sphere in life and then strive to fulfil it.

What you should do is to find out where you can be of the most use and try to carry out your dreams of usefulness in the way you are best qualified. 

Do not torture yourself into being, or doing something you feel uncongenial, but pray for enlightenment and a road will be opened up to you for doing good that will make you happy.

Those who lead such a life feel the meaning of the expression, the Kingdom of Heaven is within you. 

For them, no need to wait until the grave closes on the body to appreciate the happiness in store for them in the spirit world. 

It is already within, and around them, and if they are in bodily health, they need fear no trials or troubles in life, though many may crowd around them. 

They are protected by a shield of happiness, which renders all the world a home to them, and all men their friends. 

This is not an unpractical dream. 


 

15 December 2023

Try not to rule things.

You must not try to rule things as you want them.

You must give up to the higher powers, and know it was for the best.

―Spirit Wadsworth

27 November 2023

Is it not madness?

This then is the misery of hell for me―

I am hungering after enjoyment, pure or impure, but there is no sense left to gratify―

Reality has vanished―

The greed only remains. 

Is it not madness?

L. W. J. S., Letters from Hell, Richard Bentley & Son, London, 1889

26 November 2023

What are the internal workings of the soul?

Remember, sisters, a husband who always feels his home congenial and happy, his wife cheerful and intelligent, will rarely want to stray. 

A son, accustomed to the elevating and refined pleasures of his father's house, and seeing the modest and retiring character of its inmates, will shrink disgusted from meretricious charms. 

The daughters brought up under such a mother and father would have a sevenfold aegis to protect them from danger, and would be well-fitted to enter into that holy estate they were destined to fill, when they in their turn will elevate and harmonise their chosen companion. 

Upon you, the well-being of the human family is dependent. 


You have more to do with the internal workings of the soul, the finer feelings of your nature; these, it is your mission to call into action. 

It is not in you alone that the awakening must take place. 

All want rousing up; none are alive to the value of the beautiful gifts they possess to their full extent, and some are not aware of owning any at all. 

Though these have long lain dormant, lost and hidden, they are there, ready to be brought to the light; opportunity is all that is wanting to develop them. 

22 November 2023

What has your own soul to answer?

Brother, are you ready to stand alone and naked for judgment?

The answer is breathlessly awaited.

Realise the Responsibility of Life

Realise the responsibility of life—

The first thrill of life [spirit-life] may be a terrible agony of remorse—

The painful bursting of the hull.


Then, for the first time, perhaps, comes to it [spirit-life] a consciousness of what it is and what it might have been. 

A reaction from the belief in a literal hell has given many the very comfortable idea that no matter how selfishly and unworthily they may have lived

At death, their sins will be blotted out—

They will begin to live better lives and enter into joy and peace. 

Nothing could be farther from the truth. 


If a child plays with matches and is burned, the loving mother will nurse him tenderly and teach him that his suffering is the consequence of his disobedience. 

Do all she can to soothe and heal, the lesson must be learned.


Thus, if the children of the All-wise, All-loving Parent disobey His laws, the suffering must follow. 

You will enter this life just what you make yourself. 

If you allow your spirit to be cramped, dwarfed and sin-stained, you will find yourself crippled, weak and impure

Unfit for the companionship of the good

Unable to enjoy the spiritual life until you have atoned by long struggle. 

If you persistently resist temptation, and hurtful shadows, and keep your soul receptive to all purifying, inspiring influences, your fitness to receive them will increase

You will enter here {spirit-life] prepared for higher development and purer joys.


04 November 2023

What is God?

Say unto the people, the I AM hath sent me unto you.

Why enquirest thou after my name, seeing that it is hidden.

What is God?

If I call God Father, I limit him so far that I imply He is not my brother

If I call him Lord, I imply that He is not my equal, my companion, my friend. 


All definitions, then, are limited, and to a certain extent, misleading

Yet we must avail ourselves of some terms. 

The truest is that given through Moses—I AM. 

That is—

I am all being


All being is myself

Yet even this seems to shut him out of phenomena. 

Yes; there is One, and only One in the universe

One in whom all being, all force, all phenomena are united

Besides this one there is no other

There is no life that is not God

There is no death that is not God

No thing

No spirit

All is one

One—

The very power of which we speak it is God

The Absolute

The Limitless

The Infinite. 

11 September 2023

Where are your departed loved ones found?

Most of the departed spirit-lives that you have known in your present journey through this world are to be found in this near-to-earth zone [First Spiritual Zone], which in reality intermingles with your earth life, though it is invisible to you. 

That is to say, that most of your departed loved ones are near you—are with you. 

They are in your presence and are able to help you and to suggest things to you that are for your good, without your being conscious of the source from which you have received the suggestion.

However, the means of communication between the living and the dead is imperfect—

In some cases, does not exist on a conscious plane. 

Hence, you pass through this physical life more or less unconscious of the presence of your departed loved ones and of the presence of that vast world of invisible and spiritual life that is around and about you.

Remember that the first spiritual zone of the spiritual universe is around and about you, and that the departed spirit-lives—both those who are earthbound and those who have completed their earthly journey—remain in this zone for an indefinite period of time that may extend over many years, and that these spirits of the first spiritual zone intermingle with you, live with you, and, in some cases, are you, more completely than you are yourself.

Benjamin F. Woodcox, Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

10 September 2023

What is the usual mode of travel to a spiritual entity?

The usual mode of travel and the one most natural to a spiritual entity is that of leisurely floating along through the atmosphere or through space, usually at no great distance from the physical material planet on which it once resided. 

However, if a spiritual entity has attained a very high state of spiritual development, and has been long in the spiritual worlds, it may not be found so near to its former physical material home. 

First, because it no longer belongs so near to the physical earth, and second, because the physical Earth no longer holds any who are dear to it.

Benjamin F. Woodcox, Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923

25 January 2023

What is the soul's structure?

You may believe that the spirit, when it passes away from the corporeal form, will retain, through all eternity, its original size and height. This is a mistake. 

The spirit, as it advances in knowledge and wisdom progresses also in its structure, attaining the size and height it would have attained had it remained in the earthly form of its destined age.

To suppose that the little infant, for instance, will retain its tiny figure, through all duration, without expanding its stature in the slightest degree is unsubstantiated by either reason or nature. 

The idea that the spirit remains at a standstill, at a point of height, when it leaves the earth is absurd and unphilosophical. It must expand exteriorly in proportion to its interior growth. 

The untutored infant will no more retain forever in spirit life the primitive form of the earth than it would if living on earth.

As its intellectual capacities unfold, its little soul will magnify accordingly until you see no longer the baby form but a beautiful and expanded spirit, wearing the robe of wisdom-perfected manhood or womanhood.

A beautiful and expanded spirit | NightCafe Creator

23 January 2023

Prayer keeps out devils.

There's a lot in prayer, prayer keeps out evil things, and keeps nice clean conditions; keeps out devils.

Walruses lying on Northbrook Island. Russian Arctic National Park | Timinilya/Wikimedia Commons | (CC BY-SA 4.0)

14 July 2022

The Fields of Asphodel

In the fair fields of Asphodel, prayers grow like flowers. Some are prayers of anguish from hearts that are breaking. And, oh; they are crimson red! Yet out of the centre of each, a golden stamen points upward, bringing down the Divine Radiance into the very heart of passion or sorrow, stilling them.

There are the prayers that are lisped by baby lips, God bless mama and papa. These are tiny violets and daisies, so sweet and pure and beautiful, nodding their little heads in hundreds of thousands all over the grass.

Then there are stately lilies, so pure and white. They are the prayers of the saints whose hearts have been purified from all earthly desires. There are beautiful roses too. These are the prayers of those passionate lovers who have learned to know and dwell in beautiful love. They pour out their hearts in adoration like the perfume of the rose. 

Oh! How beautiful are these fields!

Prayers for success are grand and stately flowers with long stalks standing up straight and high, with flowers all down the sides; many, many flowers. Some are white with golden centres. And some are purple and blue and crimson according to their ideal. But the most beautiful are those that have within their hearts little golden stamens. And every time the Winds of Heaven blow, the bright dust of their golden pollen showers down upon mankind. Why you ask? Because these are the prayers that have asked for success and blessing for all the world. So the showers of golden dust fall upon all. And wherever they fall and find lodgement, they bring happiness and success.

Selfish prayers for mere worldly success are not allowed to grow in these fields. We call them weeds. We go out and pull them up and cast them back to earth and say to the children of the earth—

Take back your prayers, they are not worthy of a place in this Garden. They come back to you to be readjusted. Gather them up. They belong only in the soil of the earth. Readjust them. 

For only when so readjusted can such prayers grow into beautiful flowers in the fields of Asphodel.

Sometimes, selfish prayers force success, like hothouse flowers of untimely bloom. These, the angels pluck and throwback to earth. Such success, as may thus be gained, is but of the earth and only for the moment—only while the flowers thus plucked endure. 

They have no root in heaven.

The prayers that demand and demand and insist upon their fulfilment without saying, Not my will, but thine be done, are also weeds, bitter weeds and rank. Their answer seems to come because they grow a little, but their flowers soon fall and give place to bitter fruit which often purges those who planted and must eat.

The prayers that the Great Gardener loves are those which create the beautiful Flowers of Immortality. They are prayers of gratitude and thankfulness; the recognition of what you really are; the accepting of all your blessings with joy. Those are the greatest prayers of all, the prayers of thankfulness and joy; when you accept your blessings and realise how your Father loves you and how glad he is to see that you understand and permit him to help you.

Take then your blessings and laugh back into his face like glad flowers nodding joyously back to the sun. Say, O my Father! I am so happy because you love me and give me that which you know is best for me, except when I demand for myself alone.

Harriette Augusta Curtiss and F. Homer Curtiss, Realms of the Living Dead—A Brief Description of Life After Death, Curtiss Philosophic Book Company, Washington D. C., 1926


Freudenberg near Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | Christoph Michels | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

08 April 2022

Let him who is sinless among you cast a stone at her.

Hermes, the Egyptian, had seen those crafty enemies of his beloved Master often confounded by the wise sayings he uttered. On one occasion, they thought to get him entangled in their web. They brought before him a poor woman taken in sin and asked him to sit as a judge in the case. The great Solomon was a wise man but here was one the wisest the world had ever seen or would see—and what was his judgment? 

Let him who is sinless among you cast a stone at her. 

Hermes describes what followed in Jesus' pronouncement—

O, had you but seen how these haughty priests and rulers looked when the godlike sentence fell from the lips of Jesus. They had come into his presence, their eyes twinkling with malicious intent, sure of thrusting him into a corner, but when they heard the words of the Master, they slunk off, one after another, sheepish and confounded. That was a lesson for them, and for all. Examine yourselves and see if you can afford to cast dirt at your neighbour. That was how the Master administered justice. He would sitteth as a judge should, before he condemns, look into himself, to see if in any way he is upholding the system that has brought the criminal to the bar of judgment. Such was the kind of lessons imparted to them by our Master, and which they treasured up for future use.


Pt Perpendicular, c. 1936 | State Library of New South Wales

01 September 2017

The Acid of Suffering

All circumstances, all influences that seem to be evil or against the best welfare of any human being are only apparently so; the hidden life seeks for such surroundings as shall aid it to develop and to grow in the best possible manner.

“I AWOKE!” Conditions of Life on the other Side, David Stott, London, 1895

The Pulse of God

Think of Life as the pulse of God beating in the body of humanity—think of the Divine breath seeking to infuse and expand the physical—think of it as the soul of force, as the soul of motion, seeking ever to express itself, to become in conscious being what it is in essential spirit.

“I AWOKE!” Conditions of Life on the other Side, David Stott, London, 1895

31 August 2017

The Unity of Man

“What is man that Thou art mindful of him?”

Ah! he is indeed Thyself, and thou God art myself; I and He are one; I came from God and I shall return to Him.

“Before Abraham was, I AM”—these are the words not only of the Master but of us all—we too may say—

I AM—
I AM the Existent—
I AM the All-Inclusive—
I AM the Infinite.

The Unity of Man—this does not mean the union of one man with another merely, not the homogeneity of the race, but the absolute unity of man with God as one in essential being, if not in present potentiality. We often say God created man. This is apt to produce a false impression, for we think of a creation of something out of nothing; a beginning to be of man; a separation of man from God, which is not really so. A clearer view may be got by thinking of God as breathing into the limited and time-and-space-bound-physical man the breath of his being—and man became. The eternal purpose that had always been and always would be was thus manifested in phenomena and became for a time subject to bondage that its full development might be attained by the fighting with that which seemed to be antagonistic to its divine nature.

“I AWOKE!” Conditions of Life on the other Side, David Stott, London, 1895

The Unity of Life

By the Unity of Life, it is meant—not merely the union of one form of life with another, or the development of the higher from the lower—but its true unity with the one being which we speak of as God and as man.

Life is one; it is an electrical, absolutely non-material stream of influence from the great source of life. It has not been, it cannot be discovered by the microscope or the dissecting knife; it is not material, and cannot be revealed to material eyes, but it informs matter and is manifested in and through it. If we think of the universe as a chain, it should be as of separate links strung together on an invisible string, and that string the breath of the Divine; without this breath, the universe would immediately dissolve, and vanish from mortal eyes. In the beginning, the earth was without form and void. In the beginning—that is, when the Living One saw fit to bring into outward manifestation some of the thoughts of His heart, and into the chasm, the void space, he breathed the breath of His own being. Then the fluid, gaseous, invisible matter cohered by the power of this breath, and a solid earth arose where before was no such thing. (Of the actual origin of matter we do not yet know, as we do not know the origin of life, only its first manifestations).

Life has, broadly speaking, four forms of manifestation. First, The Unconscious; Second, The Conscious; Third, The Self-conscious; Fourth, The God-conscious. Its lowest form may be seen in the bare granite; the second in vegetable life, the third in the animal, and the fourth in man. In these stages, the creation is well spoken of in Genesis. Now, these forms closely touch and are interrelated to one another; there is no great chasm between each, and the life is essentially the same in all; in the lowest, it is more motionless, more dormant, but as it rises in the scale its motion increases. Is it then the same life in me that is in the stone or the flower; in the wild beast or the singing bird? Yes, precisely the same, in greater fullness, or more highly developed, or in whatever way it may be expressed. As far as that side of us, our manifested being is concerned, we are absolutely at one with all nature. This life is ever-seeking fresh manifestations; when driven from one form by the break of death, it seeks another and pressed on by the will of its Father it seeks constantly to manifest itself, and pulses through the chain of the universe, flowing ever round and round in great cycles from God to God.

“Not a sparrow falleth to the ground without your Father

—Thus spoke one who knew.

Nothing is so relentless, so cruel, so pitiless as Nature—she does not distinguish between ignorance and sin, between the strong and the helpless—all who transgress one of her immutable laws must pay the penalty, and probably entail suffering on others—for the individual she cares nothing, and but little for the type. This is what the scientists say; is it true? Yes, it is true; both sayings are true. How are they to be reconciled? First; no destruction of life is possible; it cannot be, it is never destroyed—forms fall to pieces, but the life escapes and is manifested in some other way. Stagnation is not the best state—the rock may well envy the flower that grows on its breast and lives (in that form) but a little day—the flower may envy the bird even if snared by the fowler—yet envy is not needed, and the life will pass in due time through all, from the lowest to the highest.

Second—Pain is caused by the conflict of the physical with the psychical; sin by the conflict of the psyche with the pneuma. Both are real blessings, for they stir the forces into stronger and better action. When we pass over we leave the lower forms of life behind, taking only the higher, and are clothed upon with a spiritual body, yet which is still a manifested form.

With regard to God-conscious life, this does not imply an ordinary faith in a God; the possession or non-possession of such faith is a small matter. God-consciousness implies the power of worship, of faith in, and love for another, for the race—something higher than the affection of a dog for his master; the power that can say—Let me perish, if through my loss others may gain.

Neither self, nor what self can give is the first thing, but a willing self-abnegation for the good of any.

This is God-consciousness, as it is his leading characteristic, so to speak. It has been found in all classes of men; in the heathen, in the philosopher, and in the babe in intellect. This is the seed of God, that can never perish but must be immortal as He is immortal. The chain of life, then, runs through all creation, binding all together, and into it is breathed the true breath of the Divine, giving to all a new and higher life which is their true “ ego,” and which shall endure when heaven, and earth, and all manifested being shall have passed away.

“I AWOKE!” Conditions of Life on the other Side, David Stott, London, 1895

16 June 2017

Spiritual Evolution (101—150)

101. Nature is more refined than culture, more delicate, more sincere, and more beautiful. It is only when nature has been trifled with that it becomes coarse and in need of an artificial polish.

102. All nature is on the march toward perfection.

103. Nature, in the early stages of her evolution, was chiefly concerned with life. Beauty came as an afterthought.

104. All nature overflows in some way and in some direction. And this overflow in a man's nature reveals the man.

105. Nature never harms us. She soothes us, quiets our restless nerves and fills us with harmony and health.

106. The more we love nature, the more nature reveals herself to us and the more rapidly we evolve toward the divine.

107. Nature is the supreme law and the court of last appeal on all questions of right and wrong.

108. A legal right is no right at all in the court of love. Nature does not recognise any such a right, neither does God. It is man only, among all of God's creation, who is so stupid as to assume that a legal right exists, and has precedence over the sacred rights of love.

109. Nature is more serene, and calm, and loftier than man. Man lives in perpetual discord while all nature is filled with harmony and peace.

110. Nature can sleep, but man must keep awake, or if he sleeps, must expect to dream because man's restlessness follows him even into slumberland.

111. Nature has not yet succeeded. Her work is still in the experimental stage.

112. Nature must do away with fear before she can proceed much further on her road to perfection.

113. Nature has not yet succeeded in making a man.

114. The natural is the spiritual. Every effort that nature makes is a spiritual effort.

115. Nature is forever forsaking the old for the new—is each day becoming more enlightened and intelligent.

116. The life germ in all nature is spirit, and the only difference there is in this germ is in its development—its evolution—its growth.

117. Nature has a language that requires no vocal sounds or words. A language that is more eloquent, more melodious, more beautiful, and more persuasive than that of any other language in the world.

118. It is the silence of nature that speaks with so much melody—that tells us so much of God—that fills our ears with harmony, and our spirit-life with rapture.

119. Next to the silence of nature, beauty is the most important thing that God has to disclose to us.

120. It is in the silence with nature that all the wisdom of the world is whispered—that all the secrets
of life are talked of, and nothing of importance to man is left undisclosed.

121. To listen in on the silence of nature is to listen in on God and to learn what our Creator is about.

122. The silence of nature reveals the first faint sound of every change that is to be wrought in the world and in life. It tells us all that we need to know upon every subject on which it is necessary that we be informed.

123. The most delicious fruits that nature yields are all spiritual fruits. They are spiritual enlightenment, increased self-consciousness, wisdom, an increased sense of the beautiful, a knowledge of life and what it is about, and an understanding of God.

124. In few natures is love and friendship and hate constant. In most natures, these emotions ebb and flow.

125. Nature is more concerned with the purpose of life than she is with mere life. Mere existence is of less interest to nature than evolution—than development—though existence is necessary in order that the evolution may be attained. If nature thought that she could produce nothing more perfect and loftier than she has produced, she would become despondent and discouraged and cease to struggle.

126. Morals have to do with the social relations of man, and not with nature or God. Nature and God are concerned with the good, and not with the moral.

127. Nature remembers not what was, but what is. She concerns herself only with the present and gives no thought to the past.

128. Nature has laws that deal out justice in all cases of right and wrong, automatically, and never do these laws fail to be completely, entirely, accurately just.

129. The reason why we should go to nature in its simplest forms to study spirit-life is because spirit-life is found there in its simplest form—is found there before it has become so highly developed and complicated as it is in man.

130. Nature is inhuman—yes, nature is inhuman because she is more than human; is nearer the divine.

131. Just as man at times prefers to be alone, so does nature like to retire into solitude and there be undisturbed. Man is not always welcome when he disturbs the solitude of nature.

132. Nature is largely feminine in character. She has all the feminine characteristics that we know best, and love best in woman.

133. The way to eternal life lays through nature. Nature is the gateway that leads to heaven. But there are many of these gateways in nature and we must pass through all of them before we can arrive at that celestial city.

134. Some men seek nature to learn of her; other and wiser men seek nature to communicate through her with that which is beyond her—the divine.

135. In nature, it is not the flower that is the most interesting, nor the bird, nor the tree, but the life—the spirit—that is in the flower, and the bird, and the tree.

136. The real beauty that is in nature is not in its form, or shape, or colour, but in the life that is concealed by its form, and shape, and colour.

137. All nature is a bible, and the only bible that has any vestige of authority in the universe. Yet many men who cannot interpret the inner meaning of this bible pretend to read this book for us, and to interpret its meaning to us.

138. Those only are qualified to speak of nature who are in sympathetic and emotional rapport with nature.

139. No one can be in harmony with nature who is out of harmony with God, with the good, with the purpose of life.

140. Nature is more important to us than friends, than books, than wealth. Is equal in importance to us with our own life.

141. The man who does not know nature does not know God because God is the life spark that is in nature.

142. In nature we are able to find God in his simplest form; in the only form in which we are able to grasp him and to understand him.

143. Nearly everything in nature prefers to be left alone to live its own life in its own way; prefers to be left alone to work out its own destiny.

144. Nature in her attempt to realise her conception of life and beauty begins on a small scale and proceeds upward with infinite pains and patience.

145. We belong to nature and nature to us. There is no difference. The material that is in us and in nature is the same, and the life that is in both of us is the same life. And this life differs only in its evolution—in its development.

146. To get in harmony with nature, we must be good, must obey all of nature's laws, and in just so far as we obey all of nature's laws can we hope to understand nature and the spirit-life that is in nature and in us—is us.

147. God is our father, nature our mother, and it is upon our mother that our development mostly depends.

148. Nature is our mother, our most valuable friend and guide, and like unto the human mother who gave us birth, nature should be loved and respected and followed.

149. Nature has improved by experience. She is able to do today what she was not able to do a few hundred centuries ago, or when the spirit-life that is in man was first entrusted in her care. 

150. Nature is not so proud of man as man assumes. She loves him less than she loves her latest born—that tiny spark of God that is more in need of her parental love and care, and of whom, perhaps, she expects more than from man.

Spiritual EvolutionThoughts on the Evolution of Spirit-Life and Various Other Subjects, Benjamin F. Woodcox, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1921