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Man Is Spiritual Being -- A Soul, In Other Words -- And That This Soul Takes On Different Bodies From Life To Life On Earth To Order At Last To Arrive At Such Perfect Knowledge, Through Repeated Experience, As To Enable One To Assume A Body Fit To Be The Dwelling-place Of A Mahatma Or Perfected Soul. Then, They Say, That Particular Soul Becomes A Spiritual Helper To Mankind.

We Must Prepare And Study Truth Under Every Aspect, Endeavoring To Ignore Nothing, If We Do Not Wish To Fall Into The Abyss Of The Unknown When The Hour Shall Strike.

Whatever Plane Our Consciousness May Be Acting In, Both We And The Things Belonging To That Plane Are, For The Time Being, Our Only Realities. As We Rise In The Scale Of Development We Perceive That During The Stages Through Which We Have Passed We Mistook Shadows For Realities, And The Upward Progress Of The Ego Is A Series Of Progressive Awakenings, Each Advance Bringing With It The Idea That Now, At Last, We Have Reached "reality"; But Only When We Shall Have Reached The Absolute Consciousness, And Blended Our Own With It, Shall We Be Free From The Delusions Produced By Maya [illusion].

If Thou Would'st Have That Stream Of Hard-earn'd Knowledge, Of Wisdom Heaven-born, Remain Sweet Running Waters, Thou Should'st Not Leave It To Become A Stagnant Pond.

From Architecture Down To The Zodiac, Every Science Worthy Of The Name Was Imported By The Greeks