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 pass from the spiritual atmosphere interflowing the material or oxygenic one, into the nostrils and brains and soul of a male, thence through the parts and processes already mentioned. Now the human form born brainless is of the nature of an abortion; and the question arises, are abortions immortal? The answer is: A human germ, when first planted at the gestative center, undergoes a variety of rapid and extraordinary changes, assuming successively the typal forms of all the lesser orders of animated nature, from the jellyfish to the perfectly human. In some women these processes are pushed with extraordinary vigor and speed, so that at the end of a very short period the fœtus possesses all the requisites for permanency except physical vigor. If then abortion takes place, the nursling is provided for and grows to comparative perfection, in the Soul-worlds of course. Such beings constitute a distinct and separate order of souls, and are, by the great soul law, condemned to come to earth, and by association and affiliation with embodied persons, through magnetic rapport, experience the pleasures and pains of self-development. These spirits will be treated of hereafter, when I come to write concerning ""

But to our subject. If abortion take place before the monad has, in the womb, put forth its powers to a degree wherein the human characteristics rise above all the lower forms, before its shape is perfectly formed, then immortality does not follow. But what becomes of the monad, the germ, the human point, the divine spark, the pivot? Answer—It remains with and in the fœtal body till dissolution and decay shall set it free. Whereupon it floats again in