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spiritual entity belonging to a different evolution and having
a spiritual body composed of many evolving animal
spirits. These animal spirits it sends into incarnation from
time to time into the animal bodies of its tribe, one spirit
to each body, and at death they return to the group spirit,
having gained a higher grade of consciousness than when
they were born. This helps the group spirit to evolve,
and in return it governs the spirits of the separate animals
in its tribe. Like all other spirits, a group spirit cannot
die. It is the guardian of the animal spirits, and as they
evolve the spiritual body of the group spirit undergoes
a metamorphosis. When the separate animal spirits have
evolved sufficiently, they become individualized human be-
ings, but continue in charge of the same group spirit, as
we see nations or races under the domination of a race
spirit. They do not become their own masters until they
have evolved even beyond the point of having family or
national ties. That was why Christ said that "unless a
man leave father and mother he cannot follow me," for
father and mother are bodies they are ties and clogs.
The spirits have no father and no mother, but are all one
in the ultimate.
As to what becomes of the animal soul at death, we may
say that after passing out of this body it soon returns to
the group spirit, and the love and care which we have
given it naturally further it greatly in its evolution, for
while the wild animals act entirely under the dictates of
the group spirit by that which we cfill instinct, the do-
mestic animals show a capability of thought, entirely be-
yond their normal evolution at the present time. They
have received that ability from us on the same principle
that when we take a wire highly charged with electricity
and place another wire which is not charged close to it, the