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November 2nd, 1915
Received by:James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
St. Cornelius - the First Gentile Christian.
Let me say just a word as to the soul. I have heard what
Matthew said, and it seems to me that he did not describe what
the soul is as clearly as desirable.
My conception of the soul is, that it is that part of the existence
of man which determines for him what his destiny shall be. It is
the real thinking, willing and conscious part of man. The intellect
of man may die - this may seem unreal, but it is true - and man
cease to exist as a conscious thing - I mean if the intellect was
the only faculty that he possesses to make him conscious of his
existence. The soul, so far as we know, can never die, and it has
as its qualities and elements, all the perceptions and reasoning
powers that the intellect has and many more. The soul is the only
faculty or part of man that performs the mission of knowing and
reasoning and determining, after man has passed into the seventh
sphere, and consequently, unless these soul qualities or perceptions
are developed, by obtaining into the soul the Divine love, a man
or spirit cannot get into the seventh sphere, for he would be wholly
unable to live there and understand or do anything in that sphere.
The soul needs no instructions from the mere physical senses because
those senses are not suitable to be used in the operations of the
soul's faculties, and hence a man who never cultivates these soul
senses, as I will say, is not capable of understanding the higher
spiritual things of the Celestial Spheres.
I will not write more tonight, but will come again.
Your brother in Christ,
St. Cornelius
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