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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 53
bodies. We then occupied the yellow bodies. Later on we
left also the yellow bodies, and at present are occupying
the white ones. Under our tenancy these various bodies
evolved and increased in efficiency, but naturally, when
'the other classes of spirits which are not as far advanced
as we in the West, entered the bodies we left, those
bodies gradually degenerated.
These lower classes of spirits, our weaker brothers, have
to take our leavings; therefore, we naturally owe them a
certain debt, and marriage
with the lower races is neces-
sary in order to create something higher. The negro
bodies of the South, the bodies of mulattoes, mestizoes and
octoroons are much superior to the black bodies of the
negroes in Africa, and are, of course, inhabited by a much
higher grade of Ego than the African negro body; and
thus there is an unbroken ladder maintained all the time
between the pioneers and the lowest races. For,
as the
flower would be an impossibility if there were not the min-
eral soil wherein it can grow, so also is a white race with
the sensitive bodies and high strung nerves such as we find
in the West, an impossibility if it were not that we as
spirits had had the experience gained in our advancement
through the lower races. The debt we owe to those who
have taken our leavings must be canceled, and that is most
successfully accomplished by providing the intermediary
links which bridge the gulf between race and race. In the
case of the Southern negro
there are other reasons a na-
tional destiny incurred by us on account of his compulsory
importation and subsequent servitude.