—so does a similar process of elimination take place in the body of humanity. Out of this chastening comes not only a purified, new and different body, but a consciousness cleansed of all those selfish influences that ever bring about disease and inharmony in the inner and outer life.

But what happens to the millions of old cells cleansed from the body of humanity? These cells are but the outer garments—called human, worn by the unfit or undeveloped centers of humanity’s soul; and we would remind you that at death or the disappearance of the outer forms of men, man’s consciousness or soul does not change, it just retires within and remains in its soul garment, instead of in its outer physical body. In other words, the real man is exactly the same and is in the same consciousness or plane that he was before he shed his outer form of expression.

Just what will this mean for the vast majority of mankind? It can mean only that they will remain truly the same as they were before, excepting that they will be in another world of consciousness, but invisible to the one where Christ rules. For after the disease of selfishness has been purged from humanity’s consciousness and body, and in its purified and now perfect body is living in a new world of consciousness, all that was a part of the old diseased body and life will have disappeared forever.

How will this take place? We do not know—we can only surmise that when the Son of Man comes “in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory,” and “shall descend with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God,” something very wonderful will happen. First, Paul says that “the dead in Christ shall rise” (which must mean that those who are “dead” but who had “found Christ” would join Him); and then “we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

This can mean only that all who are in Christ or who truly love and are following Him will ever afterwards be with Him, dwelling in the pure Light of His Love; while all others will be cast into age-lasting punishment, or will be required to live in the darkness of self and its creations for another term in life’s school. The two are thus surely separated and thereafter will live in different worlds.