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the present one. You have lived in the lower forms, and have worked your way arduously along the Path until now you are reaching the stage of Spiritual Consciousness in which the past and future will begin to appear plain to you for the first time. You have lived as the cave-man --- the cliff-dweller --- the savage --- the barbarian. You have been the warrior --- the priest --- the Medieval scholar and occultist --- the prince --- the pauper. You have lived in Lemuria --- in Atlantis --- in India --- in Pereia --- in Egypt --- in ancient Rome and Greece --- and are now playing your part in the Western civilization, associating with many with whom you have had relations in your past lives.
In closing this lesson, let us quote from a previous writing from the same pen that writes this lesson:
"Toward what goal is all this Spiritual Evolution tending? What does it all mean? From the low planes of life to the highest --- all are on The Path. To what state or place does The Path lead? Let us attempt to answer by asking you to imagine a series of millions of circles, one within the other. Each circle means a stage of Life. The outer circles are filled with life in its lowest and most material stages --- each circle nearer the Centre holds higher and higher forms --- until Men (or what were once Men) become as gods. Still on, and on, and on, does the form of life grow higher, until the human mind cannot grasp the idea. But what is the Centre? The MIND of the entire Spiritual Body --- the ABSOLUTE! And we are traveling toward that Centre I"
