DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 167 



But if the soul is potentially present 

 in the cells it is only through them that 

 it can arise to a higher life. We have 

 already shown in another connection 

 that a direct transposition would be 

 useless and meaningless. Endowed 

 with his present organs adapted to 

 earthly conditions, a man suddenly 

 translated into the glories of a higher 

 world would with seeing eyes yet see 

 nothing, with hearing ears hear noth- 

 ing and with feeling senses would feel 

 nothing. To comprehend what there 

 exists and happens, man's own organ- 

 ism must have undergone a correspond- 

 ing radical transformation. He must 

 have new, more perfect senses, higher 

 spiritual and bodily faculties, differing 

 from his present as far as the objects 

 in this higher world differ from those 

 on earth. This transfigured body can 

 only be organized by the same beings 

 that built it here in time. The soul is 

 inseparably united with these beings 

 and is where they are. 



Here in time man commences with a 



