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its elements. Nothing can become united with eternal 

 and perfect life except that which is eternal and perfect. 

 That which is good and perfect can continue to live ; 

 that which is evil and imperfect will be transformed. If 

 all the elements constituting a man were good, if his 

 whole emotional and intellectual constitution were per- 

 fect, such a man would be wholly immortal. If there is 

 nothing good in him, he will have to die and to be wholly 

 transformed. If a part of him is good and another part 

 evil, the good portion will live and the evil one will 

 perish. " Omne honum perfedum a Deo ; im'perfectum a 

 diablo." 



" The divine man does not die ; but the animals in 

 him are subject to dissolution. Man will have to render 

 account for his acts ; not so the animals. An animal is 

 only an animal and not a man ; but the true man is an 

 image of God. Animal man is that which the animal in 

 him makes of him, and if a man is not really a man in 

 regard to his wisdom, he is not a man but an animal " 

 (De Fund. Sap.). 



" The spirit of man comes from God, and when the 

 body dies the spirit returns to God. The astral soul 

 comes from the astral plane and returns to it. The body 

 comes from Nature and returns to it. Thus everything 

 returns to its own prima materia. If God is not con- 

 scious in us, how can we expect to be conscious in God ? 

 Who can see by a light which does not shine ? " (De 

 Morb. Invis., iv.). 



"No man becomes raised in the flesh of Adam and 

 Uve (the lower Manas), but in the flesh of Christ (the 

 Atma-Bvddhi Manas ; therefore that which is not in the 

 flesh of Christ cannot be redeemed" {De Fund. Sap., 

 fragm.). 



Everything that exists is a manifestation of life. 

 Stones and metals have a life as well as plants, animals, 

 or men ; only the mode of the manifestation differs on 

 account of the organic structure of the particles of which 



