with the trials of the earth life here, and with the contending forces of the spiritual world hereafter.

“All the elements which go to make man great in a physical as well as in a moral sense are born of the passions of the Animal Soul, and no one ever emerged from the condition of the Dreamer and Visionary into an active agent for the fulfillment of his dreams, until he cultivated the powers of his Animal Soul as fully as he did those of his moral and intellectual nature.

“The love of conquest, the thirst for power from purely selfish and greedy motives, becomes in the properly developed spirit of conquest and progress the strength by which he protects his weaker brethren, and by which he contends with the Powers of Evil to overthrow them—a strength and force of will which were developed first in the rapacious conflicts of the Animal Soul during life on earth and in the lower spheres of spirit.

“From the early development of all three of man’s moral, intellectual and physical attributes are born those seeds which spring up into the beautiful flowers of a truly spiritual character.

“All the lower propensities of man’s soul have each their spiritual seed, and although when unduly developed and unequally balanced by the development of man’s higher nature, and uncontrolled by his moral and intellectual powers, these lower propensities bring suffering and destruction on all sides; yet their very excess of development creates a force of character which (when the higher attributes become equally developed and in their turn are the controlling powers of man’s soul) will send the soul upward with a velocity and a strength of flight equal to that with which the evil propensities dragged it down. And such souls will possess a grandeur of character, a power and breadth of thought, which, when combined with the perfections of the higher soul, enable their possessors to become leaders in the spiritual world, and therefore also in the material world.”

Quoted from The Strange Story of Ahrinziman.

LET NATURE alone a little. The Providence that takes care of the fleas and moles will take care of man also. Order a purge of your mind—it will be much better employed there than in your stomach.—Montaigne.