arose from the evidence that as old
age conquered man's physical strength, his blood became weakened and
the supply insufficient.

This was accompanied by a loss of generative activity, and thus, they
argued, the power that made man god-like (the creative energy) left
him. This was indeed a calamity greater than we in this generation
realize, although we know that old age with consequent cessation of
physical vigor is the dread enemy of the undeveloped man. Even our
supposedly advanced thinkers have the absurd idea that sexual-energy
dies with the physical body. The few who have risen to the place where
they realize the truths made plain by soul-consciousness, know that
old age is but physical; that it is the vacation time between the
functions of physical activity and that of the soul-life. Old age is
the wise provision of the Cosmic Law which compels those who will not
do so of their own volition and wisdom, to transmute the life-energy
into higher channels. If the race knew enough to consciously transmute
the creative sex-energy into an interior function, there would come to
pass the time prophecied by St. Paul when Man shall consciously "lay
down his body and take it up again."

There are spiritually advanced men and women today who can consciously
leave the physical body as they do the house in which they live, while
they visit distant places, annihilating space. To these the body is no
more than a garment. Thus death is overcome and the knowledge attained
that we are souls using a physical body; that death does not in itself
confer upon any one either immortality or youth or love, but that
these may be acquired by acts of virtue and unselfish service--not as
payment or reward for unwilling work, but as the result of unfailing
law, which gives what we demand.

What we demand we naturally work for. If we serve Love, we get the
coin in which Love pays as naturally as we get the checks signed by
Jones when we work for Jones, and by Smith when we work for Smith.

Death merely discloses our interior nature. If we have failed to
transmute the life-energy into a love that is deeper than mere animal
instinct; if we have missed the beautiful and the pure and the lofty
idealism of Love, we will find ourselves as age-worn after death as
before the change. But again we may note a wise provision of the
Cosmic Law, for it is almost impossible for a human being to live
through many years of life without having loved some per