'blown away part' which decays in a few days or weeks?--of the
'Radia' or 'Radiance' of the Soul, rising in strength again AT THE
SAME RATE that the other, the Body, or 'grown portion of the
activity,' decays? Of the 'new form of matter' and the 'radio-
activity as a concomitant of the CHANGE OF FORM'? Does not Science
here almost unwittingly verify the words of St. Paul:--"It is sown a
natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural
body, and there is a spiritual body"? There is nothing impossible or
'miraculous' in such a consummation, even according to modern
material science,--it is merely the natural action of PURE radio-
activity or that etherical composition for which we have no name,
but which we have vaguely called the SOUL for countless ages.

To multitudes of people this expression 'the Soul' has become
overfamiliar by constant repetition, and conveys little more than
the suggestion of a myth, or the hint of an Imaginary Existence. Now
there is nothing in the whole Universe so REAL as the Vital Germ of
the actual Form and Being of the living, radiant, active Creature
within each one of us,--the creature who, impressed and guided by
our Free Will, works out its own delight or doom. The WILL of each
man or woman is like the compass of a ship,--where it points, the
ship goes. If the needle directs it to the rocks, there is wreck and
disaster,--if to the open sea, there is clear sailing. God leaves
the WILL of man at perfect liberty. His Divine Love neither
constrains nor compels. We must Ourselves learn the ways of Right
and Wrong, and having learned, we must choose. We must injure
Ourselves. God will not injure us. We invite our own miseries. God
does not send them. The evils and sorrows that afflict mankind are
of mankind's own making. Even in natural catastrophes, which ruin
cities and devastate countries, it is well to remember that Nature,