IMMORTALITY
IN
THE FLESH
WE believe that immortality
in the flesh is a possibility, or, in
other words, that a physical body can
be retained so long as the spirit desires
its use, and that this body instead of
decreasing in strength and vigour as the
years go on will increase, and its youth
will be perpetual.
We believe that the reputed
fables in the ancient mythologies referring
to the "immortals" or beings
possessed of powers other and greater
than "mortals " have a foundation
in fact.
This possibility must
come in accordance with the law that every
demand or prayer of humanity must bring
supply. There is now a more earnest demand
than ever for longer and more perfect
physical life, because now more minds
see the greater possibilities of life.
They appreciate more than ever the value
of living in the physical. Such demand
often takes this form of expression, "
I have just learned how to live and it
is nearly time for me to die."
The body will grow to
these results through a gradual series
of spiritual processes, operating on and
ever-changing, spiritualizing and refining
the material. These processes do not retain
the body a person may have now. They retain
"a body," and an ever changing
and refining body.
All disease (lack of physical
ease) or sickness comes of a spiritual
process, the aim of which is the
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