Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul by Anna Bishop Scofield
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What we shall do, each one of us, with our individual portion of life;
how we shall work out our personal experiences, and to what end is another matter. There is our heredity which is, in every case, so mixed as to yield but little of the primal strain, and which gives to each one of us unknown possibilities, or undesired idiosyncracies to fight out and eradicate from the nature. The many failures to discover the mystery of life surely ought to prove to all experimenters the truth that spirit holds the only key to its endless mystery. CHURCHES MONEY MAKERS. There is no detail of the ordinary human life of all who are in any way connected with the church, which has not been exploited for money. There is no end to the myths and fables that have been put before the superstitious and ignorant, and each and every one has its price; and every celebration draws its pay; and all for the glory of God, not at all for the help of man. The peasants and other laborers starve, and are overwhelmed by the riot of fatal disease. As a money-making concern, it leaves nothing to be wished for--it is a great success. There was no "beginning," there can be no "ending." Whatever appears ended in our experience is only in seeming, and in other shapes and in transformed relationships will appear again and again, asserting "There is no death, what seems so is transition," change of elements and |
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