y, is
two-fold,--the physical being but the temporary husk, so to speak, in
and by which the real and permanent ethereal organism is individualized
and perfected, somewhat as 'the full corn in the ear' is reached by
means of its husk, for which there is no further use. By means of this
indestructible ethereal body and the corresponding ethereal spheres of
environment with the social life and relations in the spheres, the
individuality and personal life is preserved forever."

The fact of life in whatever form means the continuance of life, even
though the form be changed. Life is the one eternal principle of the
universe and so always continues, even though the form of the agency
through which it manifests be changed. "In my Father's house are many
mansions." And surely, because the individual has dropped, has gone
out of the physical body, there is no evidence at all that the life
does not go right on the same as before, not commencing,--for there is
no cessation,--but commencing in the other form, exactly where it has
left off here; for all life is a continuous evolution, step by step;
there one neither skips nor jumps.

There are in the other form, then, mentalities and hence lives of all
grades and influences, the same as there are in the physical form. If,
then, the great law that like attracts like is ever operating, we are
continually attracting to us from this side of life influences and
conditions most akin to those of our own thoughts and lives. A
grewsome thought that we should be so influenced, says one. By no
means, all life is one; we are all bound together in the one common and
universal life, and especially not when we take into consideration the
fact that we have it entirely in our own hands to determine the order
of thought we entertain, and consequently the order of influences we
attract, and are not mere willowy creatures of circumstance, unless
indeed we choose to be.

In our mental lives we can either keep hold of the rudder and so
determine exactly what course we take, what points we touch, or we can
fail to do this, and failing, we drift, and are blown hither and
thither by every passing breeze. And so, on the contrary, welcome
should be the thought, for thus we may draw to us the influence and the
aid of the greatest, the noblest, and the best who have lived on the
earth, whatever the time, wherever the place.

We cannot rationally believe other than that those who have labored in
l