So, from all these considerations, and from all directions, we come back to human evolution, the upward and onward journey of the human soul. As man's health, usefulness, and happiness here depend on the perfection and utility of the physical body he inhabits, and its maintenance in health and harmony, have we the least reason to imagine that the same individual, dwelling on the spiritual plane, will not be under the same of analogous laws and relations there, since we have assumed the persistence and conscious identity of the soul there as here? I hold, therefore, that man possesses, now and here, the structure of a _Spiritual_ Body; and that the "growth of the soul" and our status and relation to the soul, and our status and relation to the life after death on the spiritual plane, depend _very largely_ on the character and integrity of this spiritual body, the "house we have builded." The whole of life, therefore, here, is what gestation of the infant body is before birth. When the child is born it is a separate personality, a distinct individuality. There has been woven into its organism a distinct and synchronous correspondence with that of the mother. During gestation it has passed through every plane of organic life, from _amoeba_, or mollusk, to man. It is thus in touch with every phase and quality of life. It epitomizes them all, transcends them all, and _may co-ordinate_ them all. On the other hand, the individual intelligence of the child, a distinct and separate _unity_, is in vital, spiritual, and synchronous relation to that of the mother that enfolds it. It is either building or rejuvenating a new spiritual body, as the "essential form" of the physical, organic, chemical, and kinetic or magnetic body. What we call "Life," or "Vitality," runs like a "dominant chord" in the harmonic scale of the whole. Each part, organ, and function is related to every other and to the whole by definite vibrations and the laws of harmony. If, from the beginning, it is an "unwelcome child," the higher and subtler elements of the mother's nature, and all her emotions are turned against it, are discordant and not constructive and harmonic. Discord is thus ingrained at the foundations and woven into the "subtle body" of the child. Nature is so persistent in its determination to preserve and perpetuate the human race, that the building of the organic body of the child goes on; and the Individual Intelligence is so potent that it often triumphs over these prenatal obstructions, but by no means always. If "there _is_ a spiritual body" in the mother organism during the present life, as I am _entirely satisfied_ there is; and if the child is laying the foundation and weaving the pattern and fabric of a spiritual body of its own for the present life and that immediately beyond; then these psychological influences and conditions are of _transcendent importance_ and _may_ be largely determined by our intelligent choice.