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time to preserve the object in the form which it at 

 present holds, but liable to be set free in a thousand 

 different ways, and then diverging upon their various 

 missions to do the will of the All- Worker. 



He never slumbers nor sleeps ; and hence it follows 

 that as all existences proceed from Him, as all created 

 things begin and end in Him, all things must neces- 

 sarily be imbued with the spirit of eternal and cease- 

 less labour; and, though they may for a while rest 

 from their labours and "their works do follow them" 

 can never suffer stagnation, and much less be annihi- 

 lated. Each material particle which assists in the 

 constitution or the functions of our mortal bodies 

 brooks not stagnation for an instant, but with a 

 curious and evident analogy passes from death to life, 

 and becomes etherealised into its most rarefied and 

 gaseous forms, another being, and yet the same ! 



