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those we love, in the one case, and our impossibility to do good 

 no matter how sincere our desire may be in the other case, 

 which it logically follows must be the case if the soul is granted 

 a knowledge of good and evil, subject to the right to use this 

 knowledge in proportion to the preponderance of good or evil in 

 the acts we have performed during our sojourn in our material 

 bodies throughout our family's past existences which will 

 decide our power to assist and direct throughout future ages 

 those for whom we will thenceforth be given a divine in place 

 of a human love. Can you imagine a more perfect heaven or 

 a more infinite hell ? 



So I take it death will not stop our participating in what 

 transpires in the world. But our future powers of influencing 

 its future evolution will be decided by the lives we lead when 

 on earth, or more correctly while dressed in human attire. 

 But our souls will now be so wise that they will realise that 

 vice has its duty to perform as much as virtue, in producing 

 the evolution of human perfection. This is why man, and 

 man alone of all creation, is allowed to sin, and why learning 

 to sin placed him above and apart from the rest of Creation. 

 Think carefully over this paragraph. It may do much to help 

 you to condone the sins and failings of those who are weaker 

 mentally or physically than yourself, simply because their 

 families are less highly evolved than yours chance to be. It 

 is your duty, except in flagrant cases, to help them to advance. 

 Hence after death our souls, if our lives have been just, will 

 not grieve over the loss of the individual souls who err, realis- 

 ing that even if they are the withered and fallen leaves of the 

 family tree, they have done some good towards producing 

 riper blossoms and fruits. And the bad, also perhaps, though 

 never destined to gain immortal life or leave the realms of 

 poverty, folly and suffering by gaining access to the higher 

 standards of future society when it is able to evolve wisdom and 

 immortality, for it appears just as improbable that the whole 

 of the world will attain heaven and immortality as it is im- 

 probable that sin or poverty will cease to exist in heaven. 



The most we can hope to attain is to separate the good 

 from the bad so as to enable them to live apart without inter- 

 fering with each other's happiness ; so the bad, who are after 

 all nothing but the fools and failures of life, are but like the 

 fallen leaves of the family tree which drop and rot about the 



