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The Tenth Lesson: Spiritual Evolution.861
The Tenth Lesson: Spiritual Evolution.
One of the things that repel many persons who have had their attention
directed to the subject of Metempsychosis for the first time, is the idea
that they have evolved as a soul from individual lowly forms, for instance
that they have at one time been an individual plant, and then an individual
animal form, and then an individual higher animal form, and so on until now
they are the particular individual human form contemplating the subject.
This idea, which has been taught by many teachers, is repellent to the average
mind, for obvious reasons, and naturally so, for it has no foundation in truth.
While this lesson is principally concerned with the subject of the Spiritual
Evolution of the human soul, since it became a human soul, still it may be as
well to mention the previous phase of evolution, briefly, in order to prevent
misconception, and to dispel previously acquired error.
The atom, although it possesses life and a certain degree of mind, and
acts as an individual temporarily, has no permanent individuality that
reincarnates. When the atom is evolved it becomes a centre of energy in
the great atomic principle, and when it is finally dissolved it resolves itself
back into its original state, and its life as an individual atom ceases, although
the experience it has gained becomes the property of the entire principle.
It is as if a body of water were to be resolved into millions of tiny dew-drops