YOU WHO see me with world dimmed eyes, see but a reflection of yourself; but if you truly seek to know me, you may see me in memory as a Soul.

Many migrations have I made between the earth and heaven, but Love has most mercifully blotted out all the experiences of earth, with the exception of faint dreams.

It is true that many ages ago, having left the brighter sphere, I descended of my own will to help lift the darkness hanging over earth, only to be engulfed in it. After that I was compelled to return again to earth—for a task once begun must be finished.

I came also with the one remembered as Jesus. He, too, was engulfed in the blackness of doubt, despair, slavery; but with it all remained unstained and untarnished—the only one who thus remained of the many who descended. His Light shorn in the darkness of hell and it unchained the Souls from the darkness there.

All of these memories of my life on earth are unreal and indistinct—only remembered as dreams in the Real World to which I ascended after each incarnation; to be summed up—some accepted, some rejected, but the sum total to be set down in the Ledger of Memory as Knowledge and Understanding, sometimes on the credit side, and alas, sometimes on the debit side. For it is in the Real Life of the Spirit where all is remembered and where the lessons are really learned and built into the Soul.

In my first ascent (not very high), I knew it would be my duty to be reborn, in order to make use of what I had learned, by helping those of my brothers who were in the same state as myself—to do penance as it were. This first dream life on earth was but a dim memory, yet I know that in my eagerness to ascend, in this retiring from earth contact, selfishness was born in me.

True, the Real Life I entered was higher and my intelligence had grown. I have not explained that in each Real Life something to my credit was added, and in my descent I brought but the failures and weaknesses, but with them a brighter Ray of Light