DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 169 



erations is known to be a universal 

 phenomenon in every organism and we 

 will now endeavor shortly to explain 

 this process. 



If the soul enters as a real part in 

 every individual cell, it does not belong 

 differently to the first generation than 

 to the last or to the whole series of 

 intermediary generations. But here in 

 time man lives only in the generation 

 existing at the present moment. The 

 generations that in the past successive- 

 ly formed the spiritual substance of his 

 body have already gone out of time 

 and those that are coming have not yet 

 made their entrance. Man's entity is 

 thus split or distributed upon a series 

 of successively existing moments, each 

 of which contains only a certain lim- 

 ited part of the organism, and the lat- 

 ter has therefore in reality a far 

 broader extent than is seen at present. 



But time confines and restricts man 

 not only in this, but in all respects. To 

 take another example, we know that 

 man possesses a multitude of different 



