element in any form, the
desire and relish for these will have
gone.
In stating our belief
that immortality in the flesh is a possibility,
we do not infer that it is one which any
now, physically alive, may realize. Neither
do we infer it is one they cannot realize.
Nor do we argue that people should immediately
set to work in any material sense in order
to "live forever." We hold only
that it is one result which must come
sooner or later of that spirit evolution
or growth from the cruder to the finer,
which has always been operating on this
planet and on every form of matter. Matter
is spirit temporarily materialized so
as to be evident to correspondent physical
sense.
As we grow in the faith
of these spiritual processes for casting
out the old and taking in the new, and
consequently realize the accompanying
greater refinement or spiritualization
of the body, we shall aid more and more
those who are nearest us in the unseen
side of life. For as we become more spiritualized
in the flesh they are helped to materialize
more of the spirit. In other words, we
shall become physically tangible each
to the other, because in the material
thought we cast off there exists an element
which they can appropriate to make themselves
more material. Their spiritual bodies
are also under the same laws as regards
the throwing off and taking-on process.
What they throw off as coarser to them
is the finer and fit for us, This element
we spiritually absorb. It is for the time
and condition a certain spiritual food
and life for us. Through what they throw
off we are aided to spiritualize the body.
Through what we throw off they are aided
to materialize the spirit.
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