The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-02-02
REFRIGERATION.

The three fundamental propositions ton and reaction, evolution and invo- lution. The last, familiarly known as reincarnation, is perhaps the best known and the least understood. Briefly it is this: The real man (the ego, the individuality clothed in a physical body, lives upon the earth, at intervals, to gain experience. At death the immortal part of man re-en- ters the heaven-life and there assiIni- lates the knowledge gained in the earth-life. When the assimilation is completed the ego dwells again upon the earth.
 It is in the heaven-Iife that the de- sires of the man are satisfied. There he has an opportunity for growth, in the development of the impulses to spirituality felt in the earth-life, When these impulses are exhausted he generates more on earth
 Why believe in reincarnation? Does man exist always, is he immortal, or has he beginning out of nothing; is ne 111OTldI l kilOW llldl OlulHdllly immortality is often linked with cre- ation out of nothing, beginning This has been compared to a stick with enc end, and what we cannot conceive Of on the physical plane, the one with which we are best acquainted, cannot be true on any other plane.
 Think of the reason we give for the one incarnation in which we all be- leve. This earth-life is considered merely a preparation for the existence after death. Is that life eternal? Then what a miserable preparation for 1t is one life on earth. Mere separa- ton from the body is not purifying to the soul. The life after death is not one of discipline, of progression, for in that case there would be no need of the life on earth. We must come again and again into the earth-lfe to be full ly prepared for a really spiritual life
 Either we exist for a period, first on earth, and then, in the same undevel- oped condition in which death finds us, in heaven-this existence must cease sometime, for stick must have two ends'O or else we must have existed, we shall always exist, and if we have 1ncarnated once in the course of our existence, we may do so numberless times.
 The doctrine of reincarnation eX- plains the difference in qualities, such as no musical talent in one child, great musical talent in another. Attention has been given to music by the latter, in a former life. Mozart. the composed music at the edge of four, is a familiar example of this.
 This doctrine also explains the une- dual conditions (such as sin and vir- tue, wealth and poverty) among men on earth. One is on the heights, an- other in the depths. We are all living under conditions we ourselves have made in past lives.
 Each ego must test all experience. To one a certain kind of experience may come, long before 1t comes to an- other. So the external condition in which we find a man in this life is no sign of his advancement for he may be quite advanced in certain directions before testing, for example the misery of sin.
 To believe one man comes into the world for the first time with such qual- ities and such surroundings that he has no chance to lead an upright life while another comes for the first time into the world with qualities and sur roundings which make an upright life an easy path to tread, this is to attrib- ute injustice to God. I cannot con-