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can do. Until the soul grasps and "feels" the truth of rebirth, it must wander
around working on the subconscious plane of life, having rebirth forced
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upon it by its own desires and longings, losing consciousness to a great
extent. But after the soul has begun to "feel" the truth, it is never the same,
it carries with it memories of the past, sometimes faint and sometimes clear
- and it begins to manifest a conscious choice in the matter of rebirth. Just
as does the plant work on the sub-conscious plane, and the animal on a
semi-conscious plane and the man on the gradually increasing planes of
consciousness, so does man gradually evolve from the sub-conscious stage
of rebirth, on to the semiconscious plane, and then on and on, increasing
his consciousness from time to time, until he lives on the conscious plane,
both in his physical life, and during the rest period, and in the new birth.
There are men among us today (few, it is true, but many more than most
people imagine) who are fully conscious of the past existences, and who
have been so since early childhood, only that their days of infancy were
passed in a dreamlike state, until their physical brains were sufficiently
developed to enable the soul to think clearly. In fact, many children seem to
have a dim consciousness of the past, but fearing the comments of their
elders, learn to stifle these bits of remembrance until they fail to evoke
them.
Those who have not awakened to the truth of rebirth, cannot have it forced
upon them by argument, and those who "feel" the truth of it do not need
the argument. So we have not attempted to argue the matter in this short
presentation of the
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theory. Those who are reading this lesson are attracted toward the subject
by reason of interest awakened in some past life, and they really feel that
there must be some truth in it, although they may not as yet have arrived at
a point where they can fully assimilate it.
Many of those upon whom the truth of the proposition is borne home by
their inmost feelings or fragmentary recollections evince a disinclination to
fully accept it. They fear the idea of being reborn without their consent or
knowledge. But as we have stated to them, this is a groundless fear, for, if
they are really beginning to "feel" the truth of rebirth, their period of
sub-conscious manifestation on that plane is passing away.
Many say that they have no desire to live again, but they really mean that
they would not like to live just the same life that they have - of course not,
they do not want the same experiences over again - but if there is a single
thing in life that they would like; a single position they would like to fill; a
single desire that they feel needs to be satisfied in order to make them
happy, then they do really want to live again to secure the missing thing.
They are here because they wanted to be here - or had desires which cried
for satisfaction - and they will live again in just the circumstances needed to
gratify their desires or wishes, or that are likely to give them the necessary
experience for higher spiritual growth.
To the student of this subject of Spiritual Evo-
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lution, a great world of interesting facts open itself. Light is thrown upon
history and the progress of mankind, and a most fascinating field of
research is presented. We must resist the temptation to go into this branch
of the subject, as it would lead us in attractive paths which we are forbidden
to take up in these elementary lessons owing to the lack of space. We may
find room, however, to say a little about these matters.
The earth is one of a chain of planets, belonging to our solar system, all of
which are intimately connected with the others in this great law of Spiritual
Evolution. Great waves of life sweep over the chain, carrying race after race
along the chain, from one planet to another. Each race stays on each planet
for a certain period, and then having developed, passes on to the planet
next highest in the scale of evolution, finding there conditions best suited
for its development. But this progress from planet to planet is not circular -
it resembles a spiral, circling round and round and yet rising higher with
each curve.
Let us suppose a soul dwelling upon any of the planets of our planetary
chain, in a comparatively undeveloped state of spiritual growth - occupying
a low place in the scale of evolution. The soul gains the experiences coming
to it in that stage, in a number of incarnations, and then is swept away
toward the next highest planet in the chain, together with the rest of its
particular race, and is reincarnated there. In this new home it occupies a
plane dis-
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tinctly in advance of the one occupied in the last one - its entire race
forming the nucleus of a new race there, some being pioneers while the
others follow after. But still this advanced stage (as compared with its
stage on the planet just left behind it) may be much lower in the scale
of progress than other races dwelling on the same planet with it. Some
of the races, lowest in the point of evolution on this earth, may have
been much nearer the highest stage of development on the last planet
inhabited by them, and still they have progressed greatly by the change
- the highest on a lower planet perhaps being less highly developed
than the lowest on one farther along the planetary chain. Many of the
races that formerly inhabited the Earth, traces of whom we occasionally
find, have passed on to a higher stage of development. History shows us
that race after race came to the front in the earth's development -
played their part upon the stage of action - and then passed on -
where? The occult philosophies furnish the missing link of explanation.
And our race has grown from the stone - age stage - and still further
back - and will continue to progress - and will then pass on, making
way for some newer race which may be even now sending out pioneers
from some other planet.
This does not mean, necessarily, that each race that history tells us of
has passed from the earth. On the contrary, occultists know that some,
and in fact most of the races known to history, have incarnated in some
of the races today. The confusion
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is explained by the fact that each race has several sub-races, which really
belong to the main race. For instance, occultists know that the ancient
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