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Teachings in this respect, and the strange phenomena noted by historians is explainable in no other way.
It will be seen by the careful student that the Great Law of Metempsychosis is ever urging on humanity toward higher and higher achievements. The advanced souls of a race pass on to new scenes of activity, and even the backward ones are not suffered to lag behind very long, for the continual change, and creation of new environments for them tend to reawaken, sleeping energy and to stimulate the lagging one to fresh endeavor and activity. In this way the whole race is being constantly stimulated toward the advancement which is its natural heritage.
But it must not be forgotten that increased power, wisdom and opportunity bring with them increased responsibility. As the soul advances along the lines of Spiritual Evolution, it becomes endowed with a greater and greater opportunity of choosing between the Good and the Evil. In the earlier races the soul was not sufficiently developed to exercise this power of discrimination and choice, and consequently its responsibility was limited. But as the soul advanced and attained greater powers, greater things are expected of it. Power brings with it responsibilities.
The present stage of Man's Spiritual Evolution is a critical one. Men are beginning to be conscious of the great spiritual questions presenting themselves before them for settlement, discrimination and choice. It is like the awakening of the child into manhood or womanhood, and the confronting of problems heretofore
