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 accordance with this principle, therefore, no scene in the Soul-world is a permanency, but as soon as one has produced all the joy it can to those from whom it is an outgrowth or projection, it changes, but ever toward the higher and more resplendent.

One question there was, of great weight and importance, which I asked of my soul, and to which a response after a time flowed in. It was this: Do spiritual beings live eternally as distinct entities, or are they after a time absorbed into Deity, as the higher Brahmins and other orientalists maintain? The reply to this was: Reasoning from what any human being knows, no matter how lofty he may be in intellect, the decision arrived at must be conjectural at best; for whether we are to be forever, can only be known to Him who taketh no one into his counsels. But reasoning from what we already know concerning the nature of soul, mind, thought, and capacity, the inference is plain that no absolute absorption will ever take place, but that the double-unit man will forever preserve his distinct and marked personality.

Are idiots immortal? Answer—All that is born of human parents, all beings who took their external forms through the agency and channels of the male brain, nerves, prostate and testes, and the female matrix, are necessarily immortal. Question—But animals have been impregnated by male brutes of the human species, and human females have borne offspring to brute—if human medical testimony, and the confessions of parties implicated are to be credited; but whether such cases have or have not occurred, suppose it were to take place, would such offspring, whether begotten of, or by an animal, one of the