"Life is eternal because it cannot die. Everything that lives MUST live
for ever. Everything that lives has ALWAYS lived. What is called death,
is by law impossible. Life is perpetually changing into various
forms,--and every change it makes we call 'death' because to us it
seems a cessation of life, whereas it is simply renewed activity. Every
soul imprisoned to-day in human form has lived in human form
before,--the very rose that flowers on its stem has flowered in this
world before. Each individual Spirit preserves its individuality and,
to a certain extent, its memory. It is permitted to remember a few out
of the million incidents and episodes with which its psychic brain is
stored, but ONLY a few during its period of evolvement. When it reaches
the utmost height of spiritual capacity, and is strong enough to know
and see and understand, then it will remember all from the beginning.
Nothing can ever be forgotten, inasmuch as forgetfulness implies waste,
and there is no waste in the scheme of the Universe. Every thought is
kept for use,--every word, every sigh and tear is recorded. Life
itself, in our limited view of it, can be continued indefinitely on
this earth, if we use the means given to us to preserve and renew it.
It was easy to preserve and prolong it in the early days of the world's
prime, for our planet was then nearer to the sun. In the present day it
is returning to a position in the heavens which encourages and sustains
life--and men live longer without knowing why, never thinking that it
is the result of the immediate situation of the planet with regard to
the sun. The Earth is not where it was in the days of Christ; it has
been rushing through space these two thousand years, and yet mankind
forgets that its place in the heavens is different from that which it
formerly occupied, and that with this difference the laws of climate,
custom and living are changed. It is not Man who alters his
surroundings--it is Nature, whose order cannot be disobeyed. Man thinks
that the growth of science and what he calls his 'progress' is the
result of his own cleverness alone; on the contrary, it is the result
of a change in his atmospheric ether which not only helps scientific
explanation and discovery, but which tends to give him greater power
over the elements, as well as to prolong his life and intellectual
capability. There is no such thing as 'standing still' in the Universe.
Every atom, every organism is doing something, or going somewhere, and
there is no stop. Rest itself is merely a form of Progress towards
Beauty and Perfection, and there is no flaw anywhere in the majestic
splendour of God's scheme for the ultimate happiness of His entire
Creation."