same status. Dismember a healthy man; the spirit is not
dismembered. Amputate his feet; his spirit is there. He may become lame;
the spirit is not affected. The spirit is ever the same; no change or
transformation can you perceive, and because there is no change or
transformation, it is everlasting and permanent.

Consider man while in the state of sleep; it is evident that all his parts
and members are at a standstill, are functionless. His eye does not see,
his ear does not hear, his feet and hands are motionless; but,
nevertheless, he does see in the world of dreams, he does hear, he speaks,
he walks, he may even fly in an airplane. Therefore, it becomes evident
that though the body be dead, yet the spirit is alive and permanent. Nay,
the perceptions may be keener when man's body is asleep, the flight may be
higher, the hearing may be more acute; all the functions are there, and
yet the body is at a standstill. Hence, it is proof that there is a spirit
in the man, and in this spirit there is no distinction as to whether the
body be asleep or absolutely dead and dependent. The spirit is not
incapacitated by these conditions; it is not bereft of its existence; it
is not bereft of its perfections. The proofs are many, innumerable.

These are all rational proofs. Nobody can refute them. As we have shown
that there is a spirit and that this spirit is permanent and everlasting,
we must strive to learn of it. May you become informed of its power,
hasten to render it divine, to have it become sanctified and holy and make
it the very light of the world illumining the East and the West.

25 July 1912
Talk at Hotel Victoria
Boston, Massachusetts

Notes by Edna McKinney

I am very happy to greet you here today. This is the second time the
breeze of God has wafted over Boston. I am expecting results from this
visit and hope that my coming may not be fruitless. The results I expect
are these: that the individual soul shall be released from self and desire
and freed from the bondage of satanic suggestions. May the mirrors of
hearts be cleansed from dust in order that the Sun of Truth may be
reflected therein.

Man possesses two kinds of susceptibilities: the natural emotions, which
are like dust upon the mirror, and spiritual susceptibilities, which are
merciful and heavenly characteristics.

There is a power which purifies the mirror from dust and transforms its
reflection into intense brilliancy and radiance so th