since the earliest dawn of creation, a faulty civilisation sets in
and is presently swept back upon its advancing wheels, and forced to
begin again with primal letters of learning. In the same way a
faulty Soul, an imperfect individual Spirit, is likewise compelled
to return to school and resume the study of the lessons it has
failed to put into practice. Nevertheless, people cannot bear to
have it plainly said or written down, as it has been said and
written down over and over again any time since the world began,
that all the corrupt government, wars, slaveries, plagues, diseases
and despairs that afflict humanity are humanity's own sins taking
vengeance upon the sinners, 'even unto the third and fourth
generation.' And this not out of Divine cruelty, but because of
Divine Law which from the first ordained that Evil shall slay
Itself, leaving room only for Good. Men and women alike will scarce
endure to read any book which urges this unalterable fact upon their
attention. They pronounce the author 'arrogant' or 'presuming to lay
down the law';--and they profess to be scandalised by an encounter
with honesty. Nevertheless, the faithful writer of things as they
Are will not be disturbed by the aspect of things as they Seem.

Spirit,--the creative Essence of all that is,--works in various
forms, but always on an ascending plane, and it invariably rejects
and destroys whatever interrupts that onward and upward progress.
Being in Itself the Radiant outflow of the Mind of God, it is the
LIFE of the Universe. And it is very needful to understand and to
remember that there is nothing which can properly be called SUPER-
natural, or above Nature, inasmuch as this Eternal Spirit of Energy
is in and throughout all Nature. Therefore, what to the common mind
appears miraculous or impossible, is nevertheless actually ordinary,
and only seems EXTRA-ordinary to the common mind's lack of knowledge