NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



with each type-life — has within 

 Himself the power of imparting 

 spiritual life, that is, of the mul- 

 tiplication of corresponding indi- 

 vidualities. 



None of the previous transitions 

 from a lower to a higher kingdom 

 has taken place within historic 

 times. The cradle at Bethlehem 

 flashes a searchlight down the 

 spiral stairway up which man has 

 come from platform to platform, 

 kingdom to kingdom. Here we 

 see clearly that the type-life of 

 the kingdom of the spiritual man 

 is born from above into the hered- 

 itary chain of evolution. Many 

 times, and in many ways, He de- 

 clares I am " from above. " He is 

 born a natural man, and yet pos- 

 sesses the life of the kingdom next 

 higher, and proceeds to lift the 

 natural man by a new birth into 

 the kingdom of the spiritual man. 

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