him many things that not only will waken his soul but will reach and inspire his brain consciousness so that he will gradually come into the true life and understanding that he came here to manifest. In fact, this seems to be your duty and the privilege offered you by this soul contact.”

The Garden of the Soul is the garden which every soul serving the Master is cultivating. Every kind word and deed are seeds planted in it and which sooner or later blossom into beautiful soul flowers. All servers seek to keep their gardens free of the weeds of selfishness that are always trying to choke out and steal away the life of the flowers. The lovely green grass is the result of the loving and true thoughts which become established in and carpet our consciousness and enable us to abide and serve in our soul garden with such joy in our hearts. The battlefield of life is indeed just outside our garden; for the hurts of life, those which reach and affect the soul, bring us close at such time to soul realization.

THERE are several important and very interesting facts brought out by the above description of our friend’s experience in the soul realm. One is of her son’s soul rising from his astral body, which remained asleep on the cot, and his talking and visiting with her soul. Surely this is a proof of the soul’s ability (an old soul’s, which evidently was her son) to free itself at need from its confining bodies.

And this makes quite clear that all advanced souls that have unfolded in consciousness beyond the astral realm (and quite possibly also those who have ascended beyond the mental and even the spiritual realms) have bodies or