“Why did creative Fiat give to soul a body of the flesh that it might function on the plane of things that are made manifest? “Hear, now, ye worlds, dominions, powers and thrones! “Hear, now, ye cherubim, ye seraphim, ye angels and ye men! “Hear, now, O protoplast, and earth, and plant and beast! “Hear, now, ye creeping things of earth, ye fish that swim, ye birds that fly! “Hear, now, ye winds that blow, ye thunders and ye lightnings of the sky! “Hear, now, ye spirits of the fire, of water, earth and air! “Hear, now, O everything that is, or was, or evermore will be, for Wisdom speaks from out the highest plane of spirit life: “Man is a thought of God; all thoughts of God are infinite; they are not measured up by time, for things that are concerned with time begin and end. “The thoughts of God are from the everlasting of the past unto the never ending days to come--And so is man, the Spirit-man. “But man, like every other thought of God, was but a seed, a seed that held within itself the potencies of God, just as the seed of any plant of earth holds deep within itself the attributes of every part of that especial plant. “So spirit-man, as seed of God, held deep within himself the attributes of every part of God. “Now, seeds are perfect, yea, as perfect as the source from which they come; but they are not unfolded into life made manifest. “The child in utero is perfect as the mother is. “So man, the seed, must be deep planted in a soil that he might grow, unfold, as does the bud unfold to show the flower. “The human seed that came forth from the heart of God was full ordained to be the lord of plane of soul, and of the plane of things made manifest. “So God, the husbandman of every thing that is, threw forth this human seed into the soil of soul; it grew apace, and man became a living soul; and he became the lord of all the kingdom of the soul. “Hark, now, let every creature hear, The plane of soul is but the ether of the spirit plane vibrating not so fast, and in the slower rhythm of this plane the essences of life are manifest; the perfumes and the odors, the true sensations and the all of love are manifest. “And these soul attributes become a body beautiful. “A multitude of lessons man must learn upon the plane of soul; and here he tarries many ages until his lessons are all learned. “Upon the boundary of the plane of soul the ether began to vibrate slower still, and then the essences took on a garb; the perfumes and the odors and the true sensations and the all of love were clothed in flesh; and man was clothed in flesh. “Perfected man must pass through all the ways of life, and so a carnal nature was full manifest, a nature that sprang forth from fleshly things.