Bodily imperfections, infirmities and disease, unless retained psychologically by having constantly encroached upon the mind, or deformities that are dwelt upon mentally, are dropped with the body; but such _infirmities of mind_ as are born of an undue “egotism,” undue _self love_, (the capital “I” around which the universe revolves), must be removed before the spirit can enter upon _real work_. As with artists so with those eminent in science or any department of human thought and endeavor; the truly Great are ever the most humble; realizing that however much they know, and however clearly they can _think_ “the universe is full of things we do not know”; as one of the great ones aptly said. I had met one--a brilliant mind--who in Earth life was gifted in many ways, chiefly mathematics. He had breakfasted on billions, dined on duodecillions, supped on sepdecillions, he wrote to the rythm of “logarithms,” and worshiped at the shrine of the calculus! I tried to imagine what he might be doing. Perhaps he was measuring the immeasurable or calculating the uncalculable! I saw him! Where was his Observatory? Where his maps, charts, instruments? The answer swept over and through me with a great thrill. The knowledge that comes to the spirit is instantaneous--if one is ready--how can one use even the most perfect instrumentalities and methods when time and space are eliminated? _Truth is perceived_: in homely phrase “No ladder for the air men,” “no mathematics for the soul!” I never could have imagined how quickly he would “perceive.” He had attained the real knowledge of wisdom and love. The poet-prophets of the world, those who have sung in immortal verse the Truths of the Skies: Truths of Freedom, Justice, Love, Spiritual Exaltation, moved by the _theme_ of their songs, using their art as a setting to the Jewel of Truth, these endowed ones knew that without the inspiring _theme_, the words, the rythm would be empty bubbles, glittering nothings. ALL ARE TEACHERS All exalted lives (spiritually) moving and living in similar planes of thought--born of their spiritual states--are attracted to each other in spirit life for the interchange of perceptions of Truth and bearing forward the work of illuminating such minds on Earth _as are ready_ to receive along the lines of human progress and unfoldment, imparting “the things they are ready to know.” Spirits, the wise ones, do not make the mistake, as many do in human life, of trying to _force_ upon the minds of those whom they teach the truths or knowledge for which those minds are not prepared: “Arithmetic first, after that geometry and higher mathematics,” is the rule in Earth schools. So in the instruction by spirit Teachers there is _adaptation_ to the pupil not only of the Teacher but of that which is to be taught. There are “ministering spirits” adapted to every condition.