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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga874
lower personality, and have naught to do with the real individuality, then,
and then only, do they fall from it like a wornout cloak, and are left behind
while it bounds forward on The Path fresh from the lighter weight being
carried.
The Yogi Philosophy teaches that Man will live forever, ascending from
higher to higher planes, and then on and on and on. Death is but the physical
symbol of a period of Soul Rest, similar to sleep of the tired body, and is
just as much to be welcomed and greeted with thanks. Life is continuous,
and its object is development, unfoldment and growth. We are in Eternity
now as much as we ever shall be. Our souls may exist out of the body as
well as in it, although bodily incarnation is necessary at this stage of our
development. As we progress on to higher planes of life, we shall incarnate
in bodies far more ethereal than those now used by us, just as in the past
we used bodies almost incredibly grosser and coarser than those we call
our own to-day. Life is far more than a thing of three-score and ten years—it
is really a succession of such lives, on an ascending scale, that which we call
our personal self to-day being merely the essence of the experiences of
countless lives in the past.
The Soul is working steadily upward, from higher to higher, from gross to
finer forms and manifestations. And it will steadily work for ages to come,
always progressing, always advancing, always unfolding. The Universe
contains many worlds for the Soul to inhabit, and then after it has passed
on to other Universes, there will still be Infinitude before it. The destiny of
the Soul of Man is of wondrous promise and possibilities—the mind today
cannot begin to even dream of what is before the Soul. Those who
have already advanced many steps beyond you—those Elder Brethren—
are constantly extending to you aid in many directions. They are extending
to you the Unseen Hand, which lifts you over many a hard place and
dangerous crossing—but you recognize it not except in a vague way. There
are now in existence, on planes infinitely higher than your own, intelligences
of transcendent glory and magnificence—but they were once Men even as