And man is, perforce, a juvenile even in his maturity.

He must have his playthings, his toys, somewhat for his hands to do.

But what tends to affluence or fame in his little pupadom, has no lodgment in the realm of True Life. Study, philosophic investigation, although exceedingly superficial where existence is marked by Time, nevertheless premonstrate a craving for all knowledge.

Here it will have free course.

Social considerations prompted God to create Intelligences. He desires their companionship throughout His mighty dominions.

Man's Soul-endowed, immortal, of immense capabilities so immense indeed as to be equal, under Divine direction, to world building*-is particularly the object of His care and solicitude. Our Great Instructor is not an ordainer of unexplainable mysteries nor inexplicable enigmas.

His mighty seignories are seignories of revelation.

He holds everything open to scrutiny.

He would have all flesh-emancipated Egos profound cosmographers and ontologists.

*Who dare say that world building is a greater achievement than raising one from the dead?

The Universe is a luculent volume of knowledge which He desires read and known of all who wear His Image. And the deeper the research the better will His greatness be understood withal, and the more profound that understanding the more sincere and earnest will be the praise of His creatures.

Not a mystery exists in all the Eternal Empire that is above the divination of the discarnate Soul. Everything that comes or ever did come from the Laboratory or Workshop of the Great Alchemist and Master Artificer, has its especial and ascertainable function.

Even dead planets are not superfluous. They serve to help balance well defined celestial configurations along with their astral congeners. Blot out such and the centres of gravitation of the systems to which they belong might undergo disturbance and appalling disaster follow.

Where God is, Paradise is (to the deserving,) and He is ubiquitous.

The Soul on attaining perfect purity becomes assimilated with the Father in supernal sympathy.

Absolute harmony between the two Essences is not unusual even within the precincts of Time. The consciousness should ever dominate all other sensations that God alone is great!*

*The Sacred Oracles passim.

All of matter that ever existed still exists in some form.

The impossibility of annihilation is absolute.

Nor does God put in action the forces of causation and refine and adapt the raw material of Chaos to His uses and then reduce to nihility the product, be that product a sun or an earth.

Such procedure would be to employ His great powers frivolously and might incite the suspicion of superficial minds that the destruction was resorted to because of unwise or unsuccessful experimentation.

Howbeit, God never experiments.

He never makes mistakes.

His handiwork fulfills perfection and is eternal, whereof is reflex of man's immortality, since man is of His handiwork also.

But of this more anon.

Again I aver, there is no ageing where there is no passing of years.

The Soul grows not old in the Eternal Present.
Deity was never younger than now.

Organized Life, whether of man or of the humblest insect, is the mystery of mysteries, save that the Disembodied Soul, as a distinct sovereign and eternal Individualism, is a greater mystery.

But in time the seal will be broken and all will

be made known.

So much proemwise.

CHAPTER II.

UNIVERSALITY OF SOUL PRESENCE.

Disembodied Beings Never Sleep-They Witness Crime and Often Give Mortals Warning of Impending Danger

The habitat of Incarnated Man-its continents and seas, its cities, its highways and byways-abounds with Disembodied Souls by whom all happenings in their chance vicinage are noted.

Earthly evil doers are known.

The cerebral crime-spawn of such while incubating is pervious to eyes that never sleep.

There is no incertitude in their observations. The blow and the hand that delivers it are seen, and the intent even foreseen.

The perpetrator, as he sheathes his knife and steals stealthily away to cover, fancies no one beheld his infamous act and feels therefore that he is

secure.

Far from it.

They of the Palingenesis are alert and will enter the psychic sanctuary of the mystified sleuths of the law and by mode transpicuous to no mortal, awaken