Love, we graduate into the classification of God-hood,
immortality; and that immortality means union with our mate;
sex-union, in all that constitutes its highest and most satisfying
aspect as we know it, with infinitely more of beauty and love and
bliss, there is an incentive to aspire.

Love is the only way that immortality can be attained. It cannot be
"taken," like degrees of secret societies. It cannot be purloined, or
feigned. Fear has never made people good. The doctrine of punishment
has never deterred the sinner. Even in his apparent acceptance of the
doctrine of sin and of consequent punishment, the poor sinner has
known better. Humanity has progressed in spite of the fear that has
dwarfed our stature.

In the new day, with hope ahead and fear transmuted into a wise
patience, this earth may yet be a "fit dwelling-place for the gods."

Leigh Hunt says: "Love is a personal proof that something good and
earnest and eternal is meant us; such a bribe and foretaste of bliss
being given us to keep us in the lists of time and progression; and
when the world has realized what love urges it to obtain, perhaps
death will cease and all the souls which love has created crowd back
at its summons to inhabit their perfected world."

We are prone to consider such statements as only so many beautiful
words--elusive, ethereal, and descriptive of something that is always
in the future; but if it be always in the future it will never be
ours; we cannot catch up with it; and thus it becomes a mockery. These
prophetic utterances are literal truths.

Let us confide to you a little secret: We are as much spirit now as we
will be when death has unloosed the bindings of our disguise--the
body. The real of each of us is what we are now, in our interior
nature.

While we are building the business which sustains our physical body;
while we are studying law or medicine or philosophy or religion or
whatsoever, we are at the same time developing the interior nature
which we are now, and which we will be when the life of the body
ceases. Not all business men are alike, and yet, if business were
their only reality, they must needs be all the same for employing the
same methods. Not all doctors are alike although they graduate from
the same school of medicine. The inner entity that we are, stands or
falls in the final test, by the motives; the desires; the sentiments;
the sympathies; the generosities; the forgiveness; the kind impulses;