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The Tenth Lesson: Spiritual Evolution.873
Not only is it true that man’s rebirths are in strict accordance with the
law of Attraction and Desire, but it is also true that after he attains a certain
stage of spiritual unfoldment he enters into the conscious stage of rebirth,
and thereafter he is reborn consciously and with full foreknowledge.
Many are now entering into this stage of development, and have a partial
consciousness of their past lives, which also implies that they have had at
least a partial consciousness of approaching rebirth, for the two phases of
consciousness run together.
Those individuals of a race who have outstripped their fellows in spiritual
unfoldment, are still bound by the Karma of the particular race to which
they belong, up to a certain point. And as the entire race, or at least a large
proportion of it, must move forward as a whole, such individuals must needs
wait also. But they are not compelled to suffer a tiresome round of continued
rebirths amid environments and conditions which they have outgrown. On
the contrary, the advanced individual soul is allowed to wait until the race
reaches its own stage of advancement, when it again joins in the upward
movement, in full consciousness, however. In the interim he may pass his well
earned rest either on some of the higher planes of rest, or else in conscious
temporary sojourn in other material spheres helping in the great work as
a Teacher and worker for Good and Spiritual Evolution among those who
need such help. In fact there are in the world to-day, individual souls which
have reached similar stages on other planets, and who are spending their
rest period here amidst the comparatively lower Earth conditions, striving
to lift up the Earth souls to greater heights.
So long as people allow themselves to become attached to material
objects, so long will they be reborn in conditions in which these objects
bind them fast. It is only when the soul frees itself from these entangling
obstructions that it is born in conditions of freedom. Some outgrow these
material attachments by right thinking and reasoning, while others seem to
be compelled to live them out, and thus outlive them, before they are free.
At last when the soul realizes that these things are merely incidents of the