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The Tenth Lesson: Spiritual Evolution.875
you are to-day. They have so far progressed upon the Path that they have
become as angels and archangels when compared with you. And, blessed
thought, even as these exalted ones were once even as you, so shall you, in
due course of Spiritual Evolution, become even as these mighty ones.
The Yogi Philosophy teaches that You who are reading these lines have
lived many lives previous to the present one. You have lived in the lower
forms, and have worked your way arduously along the Path until now you
are reaching the stage of Spiritual Consciousness in which the past and
future will begin to appear plain to you for the first time. You have lived
as the cave-man—the cliff-dweller—the savage—the barbarian. You have
been the warrior—the priest—the Medieval scholar and occultist—the
prince—the pauper. You have lived in Lemuria—in Atlantis—in India—in
Persia—in Egypt—in ancient Rome and Greece—and are now playing your
part in the Western civilization, associating with many with whom you have
had relations in your past lives.
In closing this lesson, let us quote from a previous writing from the same
pen that writes this lesson:
“Toward what goal is all this Spiritual Evolution tending? What does it all mean?
From the low planes of life to the highest—all are on The Path. To what state or place
does The Path lead? Let us attempt to answer by asking you to imagine a series of
millions of circles, one within the other. Each circle means a stage of Life. The outer
circles are filled with life in its lowest and most material stages—each circle nearer the
Centre holds higher and higher forms—until Men (or what were once Men) become
as gods. Still on, and on, and on, does the form of life grow higher, until the human
mind cannot grasp the idea. But what is the Centre? The mind of the entire Spiritual
Body—the Absolute! And we are traveling toward that Centre!”
And again from the same source: