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The human soul : its movements, its lights, and the iconography of ...

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COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULmy true country/ 1 am returning <strong>the</strong>re ;donot mourn for me, I regain <strong>the</strong> celestialdwelling where each<strong>of</strong> you will enter inturn. <strong>The</strong>re is God, this life is only a death ».<strong>The</strong> <strong>soul</strong>, this seat <strong>of</strong> force, this centre <strong>of</strong>personal vibrations, <strong>the</strong>n persists after.How many <strong>of</strong> those now dead said that <strong>the</strong>wasintensity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir extra-corporeal life,in proportion to <strong>the</strong>ir tenfold faculties,<strong>the</strong> rapidity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>tomovement <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>sharpness<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir intelligence, by repeatingthat real death for <strong>the</strong> <strong>soul</strong> was <strong>the</strong> timewhen itbody <strong>and</strong> subjectfound <strong>its</strong>elf imprisoned in a frailto age. « / have quitted<strong>the</strong> unhappy life, I am in <strong>the</strong> happy life,await <strong>the</strong> blissful " life.If we are herebelow, <strong>the</strong>re is a motive forit, <strong>and</strong> leaving, a duty to fulfil. This dutycannot be betterjustunderstood than by <strong>the</strong>interpretation which Eliphas Levi bequea<strong>the</strong>dto <strong>the</strong> <strong>human</strong> <strong>soul</strong> : ,, To be withlight, move-<strong>the</strong> divine Providence, who isment, creation. "IChristian charity, <strong>the</strong> pure love <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>philosophers, modern altruism, all that is— i6i —

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