in the seed of every animal and man is confined the idea—the “image and likeness”—of what is to be their destiny, along with the life essence that will grow, direct, shape and perfect that destiny.

But the only difference between the seed of men and the seed of the animal and vegetable kingdoms is that “nature,” working through group souls, takes care of the latter; in the planting of the seeds, the choosing of the soil, the watering and the sunshine, except where men are called upon to assist with those species of plants and animals developed for man’s use; while man’s “image and likeness” is that of “the Gods” (“Let us make man in our image and likeness”), which means he has the power to think and thereby to create for himself—in other words, the power seemingly to interfere with and hinder the fruition of the “perfect destiny” awaiting him. But we will show that this seeming interfering and hindering is not actual, and that it is a part of the original plan confined within the seed.

We spoke of the lower kingdoms being guided and controlled by group souls, but in the articles on the Soul in previous issues of this magazine, it has been shown that each human being is but the outer expression of his soul, whose growth and evolution is guided, directed and controlled by a Divine Being, a Son of God—in fact, one of the “Gods” of the above quotation from Genesis, Who is actually his Higher or True Self.

It is generally understood that God is responsible for all life expression, for is He not All in all, and is it not His Life and Nature expressing? So we see all around us myriads of centers of His life expressing in the mineral and all the other kingdoms up to and including the human kingdom, although it is only in the human that they have