NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



individuality has been born and 

 reborn through the line of ances- 

 try back to the type-lives, and 

 through thern back to the " begin- 

 ning," when God took of His own 

 life to develop, through ages of 

 conflict, personalities other than 

 His own who would, of their own 

 free-will, choose goodness? Is it 

 hard to believe that at every suc- 

 cessive birth each parent has .' 

 placed his stamp upon the indi- » 

 viduality, but that the individual- 

 ity has perdured being reborn 

 again and again into successive 

 higher kingdoms? Does it seem' 

 hard to believe that we should be 

 born many times? Is it then 

 harder to believe that we should 

 be born after we have lived than 

 that we should be born when we 

 have not lived? The prof oundest 

 mystery is in the first birth, in 

 which we all believe. And why 

 should it be thought by us incred- 

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